The fabrication and visible–near-infrared optical modulation of vanadium dioxide/silicon dioxide composite photonic crystal structure

  • Jiran Liang*
  • , Peng Li
  • , Xiaolong Song
  • , Liwei Zhou
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We demonstrated a visible and near-infrared light tunable photonic nanostructure, which is composed of vanadium dioxide (VO2) thin film and silicon dioxide (SiO2) ordered nanosphere arrays. The vanadium films were sputtered on two-dimensional (2D) SiO2 sphere arrays. VO2 thin films were prepared by rapid thermal annealing (RTA) method with different oxygen flow rates. The close-packed VO2 shell formed a continuous surface, the composition of VO2 films in the structure changed when the oxygen flow rates increased. The 2D VO2/SiO2 composite photonic crystal structure exhibited transmittance trough tunability and near-infrared (NIR) transmittance modulation. When the oxygen flow rate increased from 3 slpm to 4 slpm, the largest transmittance trough can be regulated from 904 to 929 nm at low temperature, the transmittance troughs also appear blue shift when the VO2 phase changes from insulator to metal. The composite nanostructure based on VO2 films showed visible transmittance tunability, which would provide insights into the glass color changing in smart windows.

Original languageEnglish
Article number794
JournalApplied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing
Volume123
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2017
Externally publishedYes

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