High Tc layered ferrielectric crystals by coherent spinodal decomposition

Susner, Michael A.; Belianinov, Alex; Borisevich, Albina Y.; He, Qian; Chyasnavichyus, Marius; Demir, Hakan; Sholl, David; Ganesh, Panchapakesan; Abernathy, Douglas L.; McGuire, Michael A.; Maksymovych, Petro

doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b05682

Title: High T_c layered ferrielectric crystals by coherent spinodal decomposition

Journal Article · Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 EST 2015 · ACS Nano

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b05682· OSTI ID:1286887

Susner, Michael A. ^[1]; Belianinov, Alex ^[1]; Borisevich, Albina Y. ^[1]; He, Qian ^[1]; Chyasnavichyus, Marius ^[1]; Demir, Hakan ^[2]; Sholl, David ^[2]; Ganesh, Panchapakesan ^[1]; Abernathy, Douglas L. ^[1]; McGuire, Michael A. ^[1]; Maksymovych, Petro ^[3]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
ORNL

Research in the rapidly-developing field of 2D-electronic materials has thus far been focused on metallic and semiconducting materials. However, complementary dielectric materials such as non-linear dielectrics are needed to enable realistic device architectures. Candidate materials require tunable dielectric properties and pathways for heterostructure assembly. Here we report on a family of cation-deficient transition metal thiophosphates whose unique chemistry makes them a viable prospect for these applications. In these materials, naturally occurring ferrielectric heterostructures composed of centrosymmetric In_4/3P₂S₆ and ferrielectrically-active CuInP₂S₆ are realized by controllable chemical phase separation in van-der-Waals bonded single crystals. CuInP₂S₆ by itself is a layered ferrielectric with Tc just over room-temperature which rapidly decreases with homogenous doping. Surprisingly, in our composite materials, the ferrielectric Tc of the polar CuInP₂S₆ phase increases. This effect is enabled by unique spinodal decomposition that retains the overall van-der-Waals layered morphology of the crystal, but chemically separates CuInP₂S₆ and In_4/3P₂S₆ within each layer. The average spatial periodicity of the distinct chemical phases can be finely controlled by altering the composition and/or synthesis conditions. One intriguing prospect for such layered spinodal alloys is large volume synthesis of 2D in-plane heterostructures with periodically alternating polar and non-polar phases.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). High Temperature Materials Lab. (HTML); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Spallation Neutron Source (SNS); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1286887

Journal Information:: ACS Nano, Vol. 9, Issue 12; ISSN 1936-0851

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