Structural Evidence for Ultrafast Polarization Rotation in Ferroelectric/Dielectric Superlattice Nanodomains

Lee, Hyeon Jun; Ahn, Youngjun; Marks, Samuel D.; Landahl, Eric C.; Zhuang, Shihao; Yusuf, M. Humed; Dawber, Matthew; Lee, Jun Young; Kim, Tae Yeon; Unithrattil, Sanjith; Chun, Sae Hwan; Kim, Sunam; Eom, Intae; Park, Sang-Yeon; Kim, Kyung Sook; Lee, Sooheyong; Jo, Ji Young; Hu, Jiamian; Evans, Paul G.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.11.031031

Title: Structural Evidence for Ultrafast Polarization Rotation in Ferroelectric/Dielectric Superlattice Nanodomains

Journal Article · Mon Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Physical Review. X

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.031031· OSTI ID:1812421

Lee, Hyeon Jun; Ahn, Youngjun;

; Landahl, Eric C.; Zhuang, Shihao; Yusuf, M. Humed; Dawber, Matthew; Lee, Jun Young; Kim, Tae Yeon; Unithrattil, Sanjith;

; Kim, Sunam; Eom, Intae;

; Kim, Kyung Sook; Lee, Sooheyong;

;

Weakly coupled ferroelectric/dielectric superlattice thin-film heterostructures exhibit complex nanoscale polarization configurations that arise from a balance of competing electrostatic, elastic, and domain-wall contributions to the free energy. A key feature of these configurations is that the polarization can locally have a significant component that is along the thin-film surface normal direction with an overall configuration maintaining zero net in-plane polarization. ${PbTiO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ thin-film superlattice heterostructures on a conducting ${SrRuO}_{3}$ bottom electrode on ${SrTiO}_{3}$ have a room-temperature stripe nanodomain pattern with a nanometer-scale lateral period. Ultrafast time-resolved x-ray free electron laser diffraction and scattering experiments reveal that above-bandgap optical pulses induce propagating acoustic pulses and a perturbation of the domain diffuse scattering intensity arising from the nanoscale stripe domain configuration. With 400-nm optical excitation, two separate acoustic pulses are observed: a high-amplitude pulse resulting from strong optical absorption in the bottom electrode and a weaker pulse arising from the depolarization-field-screening effect due to absorption directly within the superlattice. The picosecond scale variation of the nanodomain diffuse scattering intensity is consistent with a larger polarization change than would be expected due to the polarization-tetragonality coupling of uniformly polarized ferroelectrics. The polarization change is consistent, instead, with polarization rotation facilitated by the reorientation of the in-plane component of the polarization at the domain boundaries of the striped polarization structure. The complex steady-state configuration within these ferroelectric heterostructures leads to ultrafast polarization rotation phenomena that have previously been available only through the selection of bulk crystal composition.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS); Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-04ER46147; AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1812421

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1814749

Journal Information:: Physical Review. X, Journal Name: Physical Review. X Vol. 11 Journal Issue: 3; ISSN 2160-3308

Publisher:: American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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