Engineering crystal structures with light

AS Disa, TF Nova, A Cavalleri - Nature Physics, 2021‏ - nature.com
The crystal structure of a solid largely dictates its electronic, optical and mechanical
properties. Indeed, much of the exploration of quantum materials in recent years including …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrafast transmission electron microscopy using a laser-driven field emitter: Femtosecond resolution with a high coherence electron beam

A Feist, N Bach, NR da Silva, T Danz, M Möller… - Ultramicroscopy, 2017‏ - Elsevier
We present the development of the first ultrafast transmission electron microscope (UTEM)
driven by localized photoemission from a field emitter cathode. We describe the …

Ultrafast optical spectroscopy of strongly correlated materials and high-temperature superconductors: a non-equilibrium approach

C Giannetti, M Capone, D Fausti, M Fabrizio… - Advances in …, 2016‏ - Taylor & Francis
In the last two decades non-equilibrium spectroscopies have evolved from avant-garde
studies to crucial tools for expanding our understanding of the physics of strongly correlated …

Vanadium dioxide: The multistimuli responsive material and its applications

Y Ke, S Wang, G Liu, M Li, TJ White, Y Long - Small, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
The reversible, ultrafast, and multistimuli responsive phase transition of vanadium dioxide
(VO2) makes it an intriguing “smart” material. Its crystallographic transition from the …

Ultrafast disordering of vanadium dimers in photoexcited VO2

S Wall, S Yang, L Vidas, M Chollet, JM Glownia… - Science, 2018‏ - science.org
Many ultrafast solid phase transitions are treated as chemical reactions that transform the
structures between two different unit cells along a reaction coordinate, but this neglects the …

Optical phase change materials in integrated silicon photonic devices

KJ Miller, RF Haglund Jr, SM Weiss - Optical Materials Express, 2018‏ - opg.optica.org
Optical phase change materials (O-PCMs) are being explored for a variety of photonic
applications due to the extraordinarily large changes in optical properties that occur during …

A time-dependent order parameter for ultrafast photoinduced phase transitions

P Beaud, A Caviezel, SO Mariager, L Rettig, G Ingold… - Nature materials, 2014‏ - nature.com
Strongly correlated electron systems often exhibit very strong interactions between structural
and electronic degrees of freedom that lead to complex and interesting phase diagrams,. For …

Strain Dynamics of Ultrathin VO2 Film Grown on TiO2 (001) and the Associated Phase Transition Modulation

LL Fan, S Chen, ZL Luo, QH Liu, YF Wu, L Song… - Nano …, 2014‏ - ACS Publications
Tuning the metal insulator transition (MIT) behavior of VO2 film through the interfacial strain
is effective for practical applications. However, the mechanism for strain-modulated MIT is …

Recent progress in VO2 smart coatings: Strategies to improve the thermochromic properties

S Wang, M Liu, L Kong, Y Long, X Jiang… - Progress in Materials …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Vanadium dioxide (VO 2) has attracted a great interest for smart coating applications
because of its promising thermochromic properties. Thermochromic performance of VO 2 is …