“…Vanadium oxide has been prepared by a variety of methods, including evaporation [15,[20][21][22], d.c. sputtering [23], r.f. sputtering [24][25][26], pulsed laser deposition [27], plasmaenhanced chemical vapor deposition [28,29], electrochemical deposition [30][31][32] and sol-gel [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] preparations.…”