Growth of a-axis Textured Pulsed Laser Deposited VO₂ Nanostructures on Glass Substrate

M Thiam¹, BD Ngom^{1, 2,} , O Sakho¹, NM Ndiaye^{1, 3}, M Chaker⁴, N Manyala³ and AC Beye¹

¹Laboratoire de Photonique et Nano-Fabrication, Groupe de physique du Solide et Sciences des Matériaux (GPSSM), Faculté des Sciences et Techniques Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD) B.P. 25114 Dakar-Fann Dakar (Senegal)

²Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique Centre – Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications 1650, Boul. Lionel Boulet, Varennes (Québec) J3X 1S2;UNESCO-UNISA Africa Chair in Nanosciences/Nanotechnology, College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa (UNISA), Muckleneuk Ridge, P O Box 392, Pretoria 2000, South Africa; Nanosciences African Network (NANOAFNET), iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation of South Africa, 1 Old Faure Road, Somerset West 7129, Western Cape, South Africa

³Department of Physics, SARChI Chair in Carbon Technology and Materials, Institute of Applied Materials, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 2001, South Africa

⁴Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique Centre – Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications 1650, Boul. Lionel Boulet, Varennes (Québec) J3X 1S2

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M Thiam, BD Ngom, O Sakho, NM Ndiaye, M Chaker, N Manyala and AC Beye. Growth of a-axis Textured Pulsed Laser Deposited VO₂ Nanostructures on Glass Substrate. American Journal of Nanomaterials. 2018; 6(1):24-33. doi: 10.12691/ajn-6-1-3

Abstract

Vanadium dioxide thin film nanostructures were synthesized by pulsed laser deposition on soda lime glass at a substrate temperature of 600°C and an oxygen ambient pressure of 15 mTorr. The effect of cooling pressure on the crystalline orientation of VO₂ nanostructures was investigated. As the cooling oxygen pressure is increased, the VO₂ nanostructures exhibit sharp a-axis diffraction peaks, showing the growth of (1 0 0) oriented VO₂ on glass, which is characteristic of the VO₂ monoclinic phase and implies that pure highly a-axis textured VO₂ was formed. We found that the growth mechanism and substrate–film interaction play important roles in the development of these well-textured films via the formation of an interlayer of SiO₂.

Keywords:
crystal growth crystal morphology vapor phase epitaxy grain growth growth models pulsed laser deposition

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