Optical switches based on semiconducting vanadium dioxide films prepared by the sol-gel process

Richard S. Potember; Kenneth R. Speck

doi:10.1117/12.22575

1 November 1990 Optical switches based on semiconducting vanadium dioxide films prepared by the sol-gel process

Richard S. Potember, Kenneth R. Speck

Proceedings Volume 1328, Sol-Gel Optics; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.22575
Event: 34th Annual International Technical Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Science and Engineering, 1990, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Vanadium dioxide thin films have been grown from vanadium tetrakis (t-butoxide) by the sol-gel process. A new method for the synthesis of the vanadium precursor was also developed. Films were deposited by dipcoating glass slides from an isopropanol solution, followed by postdeposition annealing of the films at 600°C under nitrogen. The properties of these films, to a high degree, were a function of crystalline boundaries and crystalline grain size. These gel-derived V02 films undergo a reversible semiconductor-to-metal phase transition near 72°C, exhibiting characteristic resistive and spectral switching comparable with near stoichiometric V02 films prepared on non- crystalline substrates by other techniques. Paralleling the investigation of pure V02, films were doped with hexavalent transition metal oxides to demonstrate lowering of the transition of the transition temperature.

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Richard S. Potember and Kenneth R. Speck "Optical switches based on semiconducting vanadium dioxide films prepared by the sol-gel process", Proc. SPIE 1328, Sol-Gel Optics, (1 November 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.22575

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