The Metal-Insulator Transition in Vanadium Oxide Nanofilms Enables Microkelvin-Resolution Thermometry.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
High-resolution thermometry is critical for probing nanoscale energy transport. Here, we demonstrate how high-resolution thermometry can be accomplished using vanadium oxide (VO<sub><i>x</i></sub>), which features a sizable temperature-dependence of its resistance at room temperature and an even stronger dependence at its metal-insulator-transition (MIT) temperature. We microfabricate VO<sub><i>x</i></sub> nanofilm-based electrical resistance thermometers that undergo a metal-insulator-transition at ∼337 K and systematically quantify their temperature-dependent resistance, noise characteristics, and temperature resolution. We show that VO<sub><i>x</i></sub> sensors can achieve, in a bandwidth of ∼16 mHz, a temperature resolution of ∼5 μK at room temperature (∼300 K) and a temperature resolution of ∼1 μK at the MIT (∼337 K) when the amplitude of temperature perturbations is in the microkelvin range, which, in contrast to larger perturbations, is found to avoid hysteric resistance responses. These results demonstrate that VO<sub><i>x</i></sub>-based thermometers offer a ∼10-50-fold improvement in resolution over widely used Pt-based thermometers.