180° Ferroelectric Stripe Nanodomains in BiFeO3 Thin Films

Chen, Zuhuang; Liu, Jian; Qi, Yajun; Chen, Deyang; Hsu, Shang-Lin; Damodaran, Anoop R.; He, Xiaoqing; N’Diaye, Alpha T.; Rockett, Angus; Martin, Lane W.

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02031

Title: 180° Ferroelectric Stripe Nanodomains in BiFeO₃ Thin Films

Journal Article · Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Nano Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02031· OSTI ID:1530208

Chen, Zuhuang ^[1]; Liu, Jian ^[2]; Qi, Yajun ^[3]; Chen, Deyang ^[1]; Hsu, Shang-Lin ^[1]; Damodaran, Anoop R. ^[1]; He, Xiaoqing ^[4]; N’Diaye, Alpha T. ^[5]; Rockett, Angus ^[6]; Martin, Lane W. ^[7]

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Hubei University, Wuhan (China)
University of Illinois, Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
University of Illinois, Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States); International Institute for Carbon Neutral Research, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka (Japan)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); International Institute for Carbon Neutral Research, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka (Japan)

We present that there is growing evidence that domain walls in ferroics can possess emergent properties that are absent in the bulk. For example, 180° ferroelectric domain walls in the ferroelectric-antiferromagnetic BiFeO₃ are particularly interesting because they have been predicted to possess a range of intriguing behaviors, including electronic conduction and enhanced magnetization. To date, however, ordered arrays of such domain structures have not been reported. Here, we report the observation of 180° stripe nanodomains in (110)-oriented BiFeO₃ thin films grown on orthorhombic GdScO₃(010)O substrates and their impact on exchange coupling to metallic ferromagnets. Nanoscale ferroelectric 180° stripe domains with { $$ 11\bar{2} $$} domain walls were observed in films <32 nm thick. With increasing film thickness, we observed a domain structure crossover from the depolarization field-driven 180° stripe nanodomains to 71° ferroelastic domains determined by the elastic energy. These 180° domain walls (which are typically cylindrical or meandering in nature due to a lack of strong anisotropy associated with the energy of such walls) are found to be highly ordered. Additional studies of Co_0.9Fe_0.1/BiFeO₃ heterostructures reveal exchange bias and exchange enhancement in heterostructures based on BiFeO₃ with 180° domain walls and an absence of exchange bias in heterostructures based on BiFeO₃ with 71° domain walls; suggesting that the 180° domain walls could be the possible source for pinned uncompensated spins that give rise to exchange bias. This is further confirmed by X-ray circular magnetic dichroism studies, which demonstrate that films with predominantly 180° domain walls have larger magnetization than those with primarily 71° domain walls. In conclusion, our results could be useful to extract the structure of domain walls and to explore domain wall functionalities in BiFeO₃.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

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

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OSTI ID:: 1530208

Journal Information:: Nano Letters, Vol. 15, Issue 10; ISSN 1530-6984

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