title: 20 mA bidirectional laser triggering in planar devices based on vanadium dioxide thin films using CO(2) laser.
abstract: By utilizing a CO2laser centered at ~10.6 μm as an optical stimulus, we demonstrated bidirectional laser triggering in a two-terminal planar device based on a highly resistive vanadium dioxide (VO2) thin film. The break-over voltage of the VO2-based device was measured as large as ~294.8 V, which resulted from the high resistivity of insulating VO2grains comprising the thin film and the large electrode separation of the device. The bidirectional current switching of up to 20 mA was achieved by harnessing the dramatic resistance variation of the device photo-thermally induced by the laser illumination. The transient responses of laser-triggered currents were also analyzed when laser pulses excited the device at a variety of pulse widths and repetition rates. In the transient responses, a maximum switching contrast between off- and on-state currents was measured as ~7067 with an off-state current of ~2.83 μA, and rising and falling times were measured as ~30 and ~16 ms, respectively, for 100 ms laser pulses.
authors.forename: Jihoon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Songhyun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jo
authors.forename: Kyongsoo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Ha-Joo
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Hyun-Tak
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Bong-Jun
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yong Wook
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D004560:Electricity; D054020:Lasers, Gas; D055095:Optics and Photonics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010087:Oxides / Q000737:chemistry*; D017968:Vanadium Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D010087:Oxides; D017968:Vanadium Compounds; C581824:vanadium dioxide