Electrical-field-driven metal-insulator transition tuned with self-aligned atomic defects

Askar Syrlybekov, Han Chun Wu*, Ozhet Mauit, Ye Cun Wu, Pierce Maguire, Abbas Khalid, Cormac Ó Coileaín, Leo Farrell, Cheng Lin Heng, Mohamed Abid, Huajun Liu, Li Yang, Hong Zhou Zhang, Igor V. Shvets

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Recently, significant attention has been paid to the resistance switching (RS) behaviour in Fe3O4 and it was explained through the analogy of the electrically driven metal-insulator transition based on the quantum tunneling theory. Here, we propose a method to experimentally support this explanation and provide a way to tune the critical switching parameter by introducing self-aligned localized impurities through the growth of Fe3O4 thin films on stepped Sr. iO3 substrates. Anisotropic behavior in the RS was observed, where a lower switching voltage in the range of 104 V cm-1 is required to switch Fe3O4 from a high conducting state to a low conducting state when the electrical field is applied along the steps. The anisotropic RS behavior is attributed to a high density array of anti-phase boundaries (APBs) formed at the step edges and thus are aligned along the same direction in the film which act as a train of hotspot forming conduits for resonant tunneling. Our experimental studies open an interesting window to tune the electrical-field-driven metal-insulator transition in strongly correlated systems.

源语言英语
页(从-至)14055-14061
页数7
期刊Nanoscale
7
33
DOI
出版状态已出版 - 7 9月 2015

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