aSincrotrone Trieste, S.S. 14 km 163.5 in Area Science Park, 34012 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
bCNR-INFM Coherentia and Dipartimento di Fisica, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
Abstract:
Vanadium oxides display insulator to metal transitions with conductivity jumps up to seven orders of magnitude which makes them very attractive both for technological applications and for the several fundamental issues they raise. We present here an optical study of pressure-induced insulator to metal transitions in VO2 and V3O5, performed at the infrared synchrotron source SISSI@Elettra.