Optical switching properties of VOx thin films deposited on Si[sub]3/sub]N[sub]4[/sub] substrates using ion beam sputtering

Jianing Lu; Ming Hu; Jiran Liang; Tao Chen; Lei Tan

doi:10.1117/12.835579

24 August 2009 Optical switching properties of VO_x thin films deposited on Si₃N₄ substrates using ion beam sputtering

Jianing Lu, Ming Hu, Jiran Liang, Tao Chen, Lei Tan

Proceedings Volume 7381, International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2009: Material and Device Technology for Sensors; 738118 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.835579
Event: International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2009, 2009, Beijing, China

Abstract

Vanadium dioxide (VO₂) thin films, for their property of metal-insulator transition (MIT), have drawn many researchers' attention on optical devices study. Nowadays it is complicated to fabricate single-phase VO₂) thin films. Ion beam sputtering is adopted to deposit VOx thin films (main component is VO₂) ) on Si₃N₄, while sputtering power, substrate temperature and partial oxygen pressure of VOx are adjusted. Then annealing technology is utilized to improve the parameter property of VO_x thin films. The thin films are tested by AFM, XPS, XRD, Fourier transform infrared spectrometry, tunable semiconductor laser and optical power meter. Both temperature-driven phasetransition and photoexcitation phasetransition of VO_x thin films are applied. The samples are heated from 20°C to 80°C, discovering that the phasetransition temperature is about 59°C and the value of resistance before the phasetransition is two orders of magnitude over the value of resistance after the phasetransition. At the wavelength of 1550 nm, the transmission is from 32% to 1%. Besides, the extinction ratio of the thin films sample is obtained. The optical properties show that the VO_x thin films have an apparent switching effect in the optical communication fields.

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Jianing Lu, Ming Hu, Jiran Liang, Tao Chen, and Lei Tan "Optical switching properties of VO_x thin films deposited on Si₃N₄ substrates using ion beam sputtering", Proc. SPIE 7381, International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2009: Material and Device Technology for Sensors, 738118 (24 August 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.835579

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