Flexoelectricity in solids: Progress, challenges, and perspectives

B Wang, Y Gu, S Zhang, LQ Chen - Progress in Materials Science, 2019 - Elsevier
The flexoelectricity describes the contribution of the linear couplings between the electric
polarization and strain gradient and between polarization gradient and strain to the …

Recent progresses on physics and applications of vanadium dioxide

K Liu, S Lee, S Yang, O Delaire, J Wu - Materials Today, 2018 - Elsevier
As a strongly correlated electron material, vanadium dioxide (VO 2) has been a focus of
research since its discovery in 1959, owing to its well-known metal–insulator transition …

A calibratable sensory neuron based on epitaxial VO2 for spike-based neuromorphic multisensory system

R Yuan, Q Duan, PJ Tiw, G Li, Z Xiao, Z Jing… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Neuromorphic perception systems inspired by biology have tremendous potential in
efficiently processing multi-sensory signals from the physical world, but a highly efficient …

Harnessing the Metal–Insulator Transition of VO2 in Neuromorphic Computing

P Schofield, A Bradicich, RM Gurrola… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Future‐generation neuromorphic computing seeks to overcome the limitations of von
Neumann architectures by colocating logic and memory functions, thereby emulating the …

Isostructural metal-insulator transition in VO2

D Lee, B Chung, Y Shi, GY Kim, N Campbell, F Xue… - Science, 2018 - science.org
The metal-insulator transition in correlated materials is usually coupled to a symmetry-
lowering structural phase transition. This coupling not only complicates the understanding of …

Epitaxial Grown VO2 with Suppressed Hysteresis and Low Room Temperature Resistivity for High-Performance Thermal Sensor Applications

A Ainabayev, D Mullarkey, B Walls… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The ability of VO2 to undergo semiconductor-to-metal phase transition (SMT) upon heating
makes it a very attractive material for uncooled bolometers. The SMT of VO2 represents a …

Synthesis of vanadium dioxide thin films and nanostructures

V Devthade, S Lee - Journal of Applied Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Vanadium oxides (VxOy) are classic “smart functional materials” used in a wide array of
thermochromic, electronic, and catalytic applications. Specifically, vanadium dioxide (VO2) …

Toward nonvolatile switching in silicon photonic devices

J Parra, I Olivares, A Brimont… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nonvolatile switching is still a missing functionality in current mainstream silicon photonics
complementary metal‐oxide‐semiconductor platforms. Fundamentally, nonvolatile switching …

Sharpened VO2 Phase Transition via Controlled Release of Epitaxial Strain

D Lee, J Lee, K Song, F Xue, SY Choi, Y Ma… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Phase transitions in correlated materials can be manipulated at the nanoscale to yield
emergent functional properties, promising new paradigms for nanoelectronics and …

Traversing energy landscapes away from equilibrium: strategies for accessing and utilizing metastable phase space

A Parija, GR Waetzig, JL Andrews… - The Journal of Physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The known crystal structures of solids often correspond to the most thermodynamically
stable arrangement of atoms. Yet, oftentimes there exist a richly diverse set of alternative …