Good Vibrations Give Electrons Excitations That Rock an Insulator to Go Metallic
Monday, November 10, 2014 - 11:30
in Physics & Chemistry
A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has made an important advancement in understanding a classic transition-metal oxide, vanadium dioxide, by quantifying the thermodynamic forces driving the transformation. The results are published in the Nov. 10 advance online issue of Nature.