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Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022

Filed:

May. 10, 2017
Applicant:

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);

Inventors:

Chang-Beom Eom, Madison, WI (US);

Daesu Lee, Madison, WI (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/24 (2006.01); H01L 45/00 (2006.01); H01L 29/45 (2006.01); H01L 29/94 (2006.01); H01L 29/861 (2006.01); H01L 29/786 (2006.01); H03K 17/687 (2006.01); H01L 49/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/24 (2013.01); H01L 29/45 (2013.01); H01L 29/7869 (2013.01); H01L 29/8611 (2013.01); H01L 29/94 (2013.01); H01L 45/04 (2013.01); H01L 45/1226 (2013.01); H01L 45/1233 (2013.01); H01L 45/1253 (2013.01); H01L 45/146 (2013.01); H01L 49/003 (2013.01); H03K 17/687 (2013.01);
Abstract

Heterostructures that include a bilayer composed of epitaxial layers of vanadium dioxide having different rutile-to-monoclinic phase transition temperatures are provided. Also provided are electrical switches that incorporate the heterostructures. The bilayers are characterized in that they undergo a single-step, collective, metal-insulator transition at an electronic transition temperature. At temperatures below the electronic transition temperature, the layer of vanadium dioxide having the higher rutile-to-monoclinic phase transition temperature has an insulating monoclinic crystalline phase, which is converted to a metallic monoclinic crystalline phase at temperatures above the electronic transition temperature.


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