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Making the transition

Nature Materials volume 7, pages 353–354 (2008)Cite this article

A chemically driven process turns the classic insulator, gallium oxide, into a metal by the formation of a heterogeneous mixture of crystalline and amorphous regions.

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Figure 1: A schematic representation of the heterogeneous mixture of phases that results at the insulator–metal transition.
Figure 2: A schematic representation of the correlation between conductivity and gallium excess in the amorphous phase as a function of temperature.

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