Nanomechanical actuation from phase transitions in individual VO2 micro-beams

micro-beams Hua Guo, Kevin Wang, Yu Deng, Y. Oh, S. A. Syed Asif, O. L. Warren, Z. W. Shan, J. Wu, and A. M. Minor Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Center for Materials Analysis, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China Hysitron, Incorporated, 9625 West 76th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55344, USA Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-Nano), State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China