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. 2021 Jan 15;11:1620. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-79758-1

Table 2.

Observed room-temperature phonon frequencies of undoped and Cr-doped VO2 on c- and r-plane sapphires for thicknesses of 140, 70, 30 and 15 nm46.

Raman modes symmetry VO2 c-plane Cr-doped VO2 c-plane VO2 r-plane Cr-doped VO2 r-plane
140/70/30/15 nm 140/70/30/15 nm 140/70/30/15 nm 140/70/30/15 nm
–/–/–/– 122/126/126/129 –/–/–/– 128/135/137/134
Bg 140/141/141/137 –/–/–/– 139/139/140/140 –/–/–/–
Ag 193/194/195/195 199/197/197/197 195/195/196/196 201/197/198/194
Ag 224/224/224/224 224/224/224/222 224/224/225/225 223/222/224/223
Bg 262/262/263/260 273/273/272/273 262/262/263/– 272/269/271/–
Ag/Bg 308/309/310/309 304/306/305/308 309/308/310/– 304/309/305/301
Ag/Bg 338/339/339/341 340/340/340/341 339/335/336/– 341/–/–/–
Ag 390/391/391/390/ –/–/–/– 390/386/382/– –/–/–/–
Bg –/–/–/– 394/394/–/–/ 396/397/399/– –/–/401/399
Ag 435/–/435/– –/–/–/– –/–/–/– 438/–/–/–
Bg 444/443/435/– 446/444/–/– 444/443/–/– 444/–/–/–
Bg –/–/–/– –/–/–/– –/–/–/– 453/–/–/–
–/–/–/– –/–/–/– 479/477/–/– –/–/–/–
Ag 497/496/498/477 501/501/504/– 497/498/491/– 500/495/–/–
Ag 613/614/615/615 –/–/–/– 616/615/618/619 –/–/–/–
Ag –/–/–/– 620/619/–/– –/–/–/– –/–/–/–
Bg –/–/–/– 646/648/632/630 –/–/–/– 637/626/632/619
+A1g/Bg +655/660/662/– –/–/–/– 664/+646/–/– –/–/–/–
Bg 820/822/820/– 815/812/816/– 822/824/818/– 823/815/816/815

Raman mode symmetry not yet assigned in literature; Raman mode symmetry assigned as Ag by Aronov et al.56; +Raman mode symmetry assigned as A1g by Srivastava et al.42; and – no peaks found.