Nanoscale-femtosecond dielectric response of Mott insulators captured by two-color near-field ultrafast electron microscopy

The fs control of an insulator-to-metal transition down to a few nanometers and its real-time/real space observation remain a challenge. Here, the authors demonstrate a method based on ultrafast electron microscopy to provide a nm/fs resolved view of the electronic dynamics in a single VO2 nanowire.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xuewen Fu, Francesco Barantani, Simone Gargiulo, Ivan Madan, Gabriele Berruto, Thomas LaGrange, Lei Jin, Junqiao Wu, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Fabrizio Carbone, Yimei Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19636-6