Undergraduate Honors Theses
Thesis Defended
Spring 2015
Document Type
Thesis
Type of Thesis
Departmental Honors
Department
Physics
First Advisor
Markus Raschke
Second Advisor
John Cumalat
Third Advisor
Mark Borden
Abstract
In recent decades, interest has rapidly developed in the group of materials known as strongly correlated electron systems. These systems exhibit numerous startling behaviors ranging from high temperature superconductivity to the topic of this thesis: metal-insulator transitions, specifically in the material vanadium dioxide (VO2). Unfortunately, due to wide variations within and between samples, it has been difficult to determine the underlying cause of such a phenomenon. In an effort to establish more consistent discrepancies between different growth methods, I have studied two samples of VO2 : a single crystal and a polycrystalline thin film. The differences observed in the responses of each provide validation to further research in this area, if not a fully conclusive result.
Recommended Citation
Daly, Meaghan, "Ultrafast Dynamics of Single Crystal and Polycrystalline VO2" (2015). Undergraduate Honors Theses. 796.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/honr_theses/796
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