Direct Observation of Nanoscale Peltier and Joule Effects at Metal–Insulator Domain Walls in Vanadium Dioxide Nanobeams - Favaloro, Tela; Suh, Joonki; Vermeersch, Bjorn; Liu, Kai; Gu, Yijia; Chen, Long-Qing; Wang, Kevin X; Wu, Junqiao; Shakouri, Ali (Nano letters, 2014)
Keywords: Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties; Condensed matter: structure, mechanical and thermal properties; Cross-disciplinary physics: materials science; rheology; Domain walls; Electron states; Exact sciences and technology; Insulators; Joule heating; Low-dimensional structures (superlattices, quantum well structures, multilayers): structure, and nonelectronic properties; Materials science; Metal-insulator transitions and other electronic transitions; Microscopy; Nanocrystalline materials; Nanoscale materials and structures: fabrication and characterization; Nanostructure; Phase boundaries; Physics; Quantum wires; Surfaces and interfaces; thin films and whiskers (structure and nonelectronic properties); Vanadium dioxide; Vanadium oxides; thermoreflectance microscopy; Vanadium dioxide; Peltier effect; Joule heating; metal−insulator domain wall; Temperature distribution; Metal-insulator transition; Domain walls; Nanostructures; Monoclinic lattices; Heat treatments; Interfaces; Nanometer scale; Monocrystals; Stress effects; Polarity; Band offset; Nanowires; Nanostructured materials; Crystal structure