Highly mobile ferroelastic domain walls in compositionally graded ferroelectric thin films

Damodaran, Anoop; Okatan, M. B.; Kacher, J.; Gammer, C.; Vasudevan, Rama; Pandya, S.; Dedon, L. R.; Mangalam, R. V.; Jesse, Stephen; Balke, Nina; Minor, Andrew; Kalinin, Sergei V.; Martin, Lane W. W.

doi:10.1038/nmat4567

Highly mobile ferroelastic domain walls in compositionally graded ferroelectric thin films

Journal Article · Mon Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Nature Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4567· OSTI ID:1261365

Damodaran, Anoop ^[1]; Okatan, M. B. ^[2]; Kacher, J. ^[3]; Gammer, C. ^[3]; Vasudevan, Rama ^[4]; Pandya, S. ^[3]; Dedon, L. R. ^[3]; Mangalam, R. V. ^[3]; Jesse, Stephen ^[4]; Balke, Nina ^[5]; Minor, Andrew ^[6]; Kalinin, Sergei V. ^[4]; Martin, Lane W. W. ^[3]

Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (Australia)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Domains and domain walls are critical in determining the response of ferroelectrics, and the ability to controllably create, annihilate, or move domains is essential to enable a range of next-generation devices. Whereas electric-field control has been demonstrated for ferroelectric 180° domain walls, similar control of ferroelastic domains has not been achieved. Here, using controlled composition and strain gradients, we demonstrate deterministic control of ferroelastic domains that are rendered highly mobile in a controlled and reversible manner. Through a combination of thin-film growth, transmission-electron-microscopy-based nanobeam diffraction and nanoscale band-excitation switching spectroscopy, we show that strain gradients in compositionally graded PbZr_1-xTi_xO₃ heterostructures stabilize needle-like ferroelastic domains that terminate inside the film. These needle-like domains are highly labile in the out-of-plane direction under applied electric fields, producing a locally enhanced piezoresponse. This work demonstrates the efficacy of novel modes of epitaxy in providing new modalities of domain engineering and potential for as-yet-unrealized nanoscale functional devices.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1261365

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1439993

Journal Information:: Nature Materials, Journal Name: Nature Materials Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 15; ISSN 1476-1122

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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