This invention belongs to the field of micro / nano
fiber fabrication technology. It discloses a
vanadium dioxide-based micro / nano
fiber temperature sensor and its fabrication method, including the following steps: (1) After removing a portion of the
coating layer on the surface of a single-mode
fiber, the fiber cladding in the area where the
coating layer has been removed is etched or the area where the
coating layer has been removed is heated and stretched using a melt stretching method to obtain a micro / nano fiber; (2)
Vanadium metal is deposited onto the etched or stretched area of the micro / nano fiber by magnetron
sputtering to obtain a
vanadium metal film with a nanometer-level thickness; (3) The deposited micro / nano fiber is annealed in an
inert atmosphere to transform the
vanadium metal film into an M-phase
vanadium dioxide film, thereby obtaining a micro / nano fiber temperature sensor. This invention uses a method of magnetron
sputtering to deposit a metal film followed by
tube furnace annealing to obtain a
vanadium dioxide thin film. The
vanadium dioxide thin film can be prepared in a controllable manner, and the pure vanadium dioxide M-phase thin film can be prepared stably and repeatedly. Moreover, the thickness of the coating can be selected independently.