Tip-induced domain growth on the non-polar cuts of lithium niobate single-crystals

Alikin, Denis O.; Ievlev, Anton; Turigin, Anton P.; Lobov, Alexei; Kalinin, Sergei V; Shur, Vladimir Ya.

doi:10.1063/1.4919872

Title: Tip-induced domain growth on the non-polar cuts of lithium niobate single-crystals

Journal Article · Tue May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4919872· OSTI ID:1265518

Alikin, Denis O. ^[1]; Ievlev, Anton ^[2]; Turigin, Anton P. ^[1]; Lobov, Alexei ^[1]; Kalinin, Sergei V ^[2]; Shur, Vladimir Ya. ^[1]

Ural Federal Univ. (Russia). Inst. of Natural Sciences, Ferroelectric Lab.
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Science (CNMS); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Inst. for Functional Imaging of Materials

Currently ferroelectric materials with designed domain structures are considered as a perspective material for new generation of photonic, data storage and data processing devices. Application of external electric field is the most convenient way of the domain structure formation. Lots of papers are devoted to investigation of the domain kinetics on polar surface of crystals while the forward growth remains one of the most mysterious stages due to lack of experimental methods allowing to study it. Here we performed tip-induced polarization reversal on X- and Y-non-polar cuts in single-crystal of congruent lithium niobate allows us to study the forward growth with high spatial resolution. The revealed difference in the shape and length of domains induced on X- and Y-cuts is beyond previously developed theoretical approaches used for the theoretical consideration of the domains growth at non-polar ferroelectric surfaces. Lastly, to explain experimental results we used kinetic approach with anisotropy of screening efficiency along different crystallographic directions.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; 13-02-96041-r-Ural-a; 13-02-01391-a

OSTI ID:: 1265518

Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 106, Issue 18; ISSN 0003-6951

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