Field enhancement of electronic conductance at ferroelectric domain walls

Vasudevan, Rama K.; Cao, Ye; Laanait, Nouamane; Ievlev, Anton; Li, Linglong; Yang, Jan-Chi; Chu, Ying-Hao; Chen, Long-Qing; Kalinin, Sergei V.; Maksymovych, Petro

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01334-5

Title: Field enhancement of electronic conductance at ferroelectric domain walls

Abstract

Ferroelectric domain walls have continued to attract widespread attention due to both the novelty of the phenomena observed and the ability to reliably pattern them in nanoscale dimensions. But, the conductivity mechanisms remain in debate, particularly around nominally uncharged walls. Here, we posit a conduction mechanism relying on field-modification effect from polarization re-orientation and the structure of the reverse-domain nucleus. Through conductive atomic force microscopy measurements on an ultra-thin (001) BiFeO₃ thin film, in combination with phase-field simulations, we show that the field-induced twisted domain nucleus formed at domain walls results in local-field enhancement around the region of the atomic force microscope tip. In conjunction with slight barrier lowering, these two effects are sufficient to explain the observed emission current distribution. Our results suggest that different electronic properties at domain walls are not necessary to observe localized enhancement in domain wall currents.

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^[1]; Li, Linglong ^[2]; Yang, Jan-Chi ^[3];

^[4]; Chen, Long-Qing ^[5];

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Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Science, Inst. for Functional Imaging of Materials
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Science, Inst. for Functional Imaging of Materials; Xi'an Jiaotong Univ. (China). Multi-disciplinary Materials Research Center, Frontier Inst. of Science and Technology
National Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan City (Taiwan). Dept. of Physics
National Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan). Inst. of Physics
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering

Publication Date:: Mon Nov 06 00:00:00 EST 2017

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

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

OSTI Identifier:: 1414693

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; FG02-07ER46417

Resource Type:: Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Nature Communications

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723

Publisher:: Nature Publishing Group

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; ferroelectrics and multiferroics; nanoscale materials

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                    Vasudevan, Rama K., Cao, Ye, Laanait, Nouamane, Ievlev, Anton, Li, Linglong, Yang, Jan-Chi, Chu, Ying-Hao, Chen, Long-Qing, Kalinin, Sergei V., and Maksymovych, Petro. Field enhancement of electronic conductance at ferroelectric domain walls.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
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                    Vasudevan, Rama K., Cao, Ye, Laanait, Nouamane, Ievlev, Anton, Li, Linglong, Yang, Jan-Chi, Chu, Ying-Hao, Chen, Long-Qing, Kalinin, Sergei V., & Maksymovych, Petro. Field enhancement of electronic conductance at ferroelectric domain walls.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01334-5

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                    Vasudevan, Rama K., Cao, Ye, Laanait, Nouamane, Ievlev, Anton, Li, Linglong, Yang, Jan-Chi, Chu, Ying-Hao, Chen, Long-Qing, Kalinin, Sergei V., and Maksymovych, Petro. 2017.  
        "Field enhancement of electronic conductance at ferroelectric domain walls".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01334-5.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1414693.

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@article{osti_1414693,

  title        = {Field enhancement of electronic conductance at ferroelectric domain walls},

  author       = {Vasudevan, Rama K. and Cao, Ye and Laanait, Nouamane and Ievlev, Anton and Li, Linglong and Yang, Jan-Chi and Chu, Ying-Hao and Chen, Long-Qing and Kalinin, Sergei V. and Maksymovych, Petro},

  abstractNote = {Ferroelectric domain walls have continued to attract widespread attention due to both the novelty of the phenomena observed and the ability to reliably pattern them in nanoscale dimensions. But, the conductivity mechanisms remain in debate, particularly around nominally uncharged walls. Here, we posit a conduction mechanism relying on field-modification effect from polarization re-orientation and the structure of the reverse-domain nucleus. Through conductive atomic force microscopy measurements on an ultra-thin (001) BiFeO3 thin film, in combination with phase-field simulations, we show that the field-induced twisted domain nucleus formed at domain walls results in local-field enhancement around the region of the atomic force microscope tip. In conjunction with slight barrier lowering, these two effects are sufficient to explain the observed emission current distribution. Our results suggest that different electronic properties at domain walls are not necessary to observe localized enhancement in domain wall currents.},

  doi          = {10.1038/s41467-017-01334-5},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1414693},
  journal      = {Nature Communications},

  issn         = {2041-1723},

  number       = 1,

  volume       = 8,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Nov 06 00:00:00 EST 2017},

  month        = {Mon Nov 06 00:00:00 EST 2017}

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Abstract Conducting ferroelectric domain walls attract a wide range of research interest due to their promising applications in nanoelectronics. In this study, we reveal an unexpected enhanced conductivity near the well‐aligned 71° nonpolar domain walls in BiFeO ₃ . Such an interfacial conductivity is induced by the creation of up‐polarized nano‐domains near the 71° domain walls, as revealed by the combination of the piezo‐response force microscopy (PFM) and conducting atomic force microscopy (c‐AFM) imaging techniques, as well as phase‐field simulations. The upward polarized domains are suggested to lower the Schottky barrier at the interface between the tip and sample surface,more »« less
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https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.201800130
Nanoscale Origins of Ferroelastic Domain Wall Mobility in Ferroelectric Multilayers

Journal Article Huang, Hsin-Hui; Hong, Zijian; Xin, Huolin; ... - ACS Nano

Here we investigate the nanoscale origins of ferroelastic domain wall motion in ferroelectric multilayer thin films that lead to giant electromechanical responses. We present direct evidence for complex underpinning factors that result in ferroelastic domain wall mobility using a combination of atomic-level aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy and phase-field simulations in model epitaxial (001) tetragonal (T) PbZr_xTi_1-xO₃ (PZT)/rhombohedral (R) PbZr_xTi_1-xO₃ (PZT) bilayer heterostructures. The local electric dipole distribution is imaged on an atomic scale for a ferroelastic domain wall that nucleates in the R-layer and cuts through the composition breaking the T/R interface. Our studies reveal a highly complexmore »« less
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https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b05180

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Giant Domain Wall Conductivity in Self‐Assembled BiFeO ₃ Nanocrystals

Journal Article Liu, Lisha; Xu, Kun; Li, Qian; ... - Advanced Functional Materials

Abstract Ever‐increasing demand on electronic devices with ultrahigh‐density non‐volatile data storage has attracted great interest in novel ferroelectric memories based on conductive ferroelectric domain walls. Embedded in an insulating material, ferroelectric domain walls have the capability of being (re)created, displaced, erased, and altered in their spatial configurations and electronic characteristics. However, the domain wall conductivities are in most cases not yet sufficiently high to ensure the current density required to drive read‐out circuits operating at high speeds. In this work, a giant domain wall current (>10 µA) of a single charged domain wall is obtained through conductive atomic force microscopymore »« less
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Estimating the Dimension of a Model journal, March 1978

Nanoscale Domain Control in Multiferroic BiFeO3 Thin Films journal, September 2006

Conduction at domain walls in insulating Pb(Zr$_{0.2}$Ti$_{0.8}$)O$_3$ thin films text, January 2012

Multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films processed via chemical solution deposition: Structural and electrical characterization journal, May 2005

Mesoscale flux-closure domain formation in single-crystal BaTiO3 journal, July 2011

Electrical Control of Multiferroic Orderings in Mixed-Phase BiFeO3 Films journal, May 2012

Nanoscale Origins of Nonlinear Behavior in Ferroic Thin Films journal, August 2012

Persistent conductive footprints of 109° domain walls in bismuth ferrite films journal, March 2014

Conduction at domain walls in oxide multiferroics journal, January 2009

Full-field X-ray reflection microscopy of epitaxial thin-films journal, October 2014

Anisotropic conductance at improper ferroelectric domain walls journal, February 2012

Anisotropic conductance at improper ferroelectric domain walls journal, February 2012

Efficient Photovoltaic Current Generation at Ferroelectric Domain Walls journal, September 2011

Local conductivity and the role of vacancies around twin walls of (001)−BiFeO 3 thin films journal, September 2012

Domain wall conduction in multiaxial ferroelectrics text, January 2011

Conduction at Domain Walls in Insulating Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 Thin Films journal, September 2011

Domain wall conduction in multiaxial ferroelectrics journal, January 2012

Bundles of polytwins as meta-elastic domains in the thin polycrystalline simple multi-ferroic system PZT journal, January 2010

Domain Wall Conduction and Polarization-Mediated Transport in Ferroelectrics journal, April 2013

Spatially Inhomogeneous Metal-Insulator Transition in Doped Manganites journal, September 1999

Electronic Properties of Isosymmetric Phase Boundaries in Highly Strained Ca-Doped BiFeO 3 journal, April 2014

Observation of a periodic array of flux-closure quadrants in strained ferroelectric PbTiO3 films journal, April 2015

Phase-Field Method of Phase Transitions/Domain Structures in Ferroelectric Thin Films: A Review journal, June 2008

Exploring Topological Defects in Epitaxial BiFeO 3 Thin Films journal, January 2011

Enhancement of the anisotropic photocurrent in ferroelectric oxides by strain gradients journal, August 2015

Enhanced electric conductivity at ferroelectric vortex cores in BiFeO3 journal, November 2011

Nucleation, growth, and control of ferroelectric-ferroelastic domains in thin polycrystalline films journal, November 2012

Atomic-Scale Evolution of Local Electronic Structure Across Multiferroic Domain Walls journal, February 2011

Tunable Metallic Conductance in Ferroelectric Nanodomains journal, December 2011

Direct Observation of Continuous Electric Dipole Rotation in Flux-Closure Domains in Ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 journal, March 2011

Spontaneous Vortex Nanodomain Arrays at Ferroelectric Heterointerfaces journal, February 2011

Negative Differential Resistivity and Positive Temperature Coefficient of Resistivity effect in the diffusion limited current of ferroelectric thin film capacitors text, January 2004

Conducting Domain Walls in Lithium Niobate Single Crystals journal, May 2012

Towards reversible control of domain wall conduction in Pb(Zr 0.2 Ti 0.8 )O 3 thin films journal, April 2015

Observation of polar vortices in oxide superlattices journal, January 2016

Polarization charge as a reconfigurable quasi-dopant in ferroelectric thin films journal, June 2015

Direct imaging of the coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface text, January 2011

Enhanced electromechanical response of ferroelectrics due to charged domain walls journal, January 2012

Conduction through 71° Domain Walls in BiFeO 3 Thin Films journal, September 2011

Labile Ferroelastic Nanodomains in Bilayered Ferroelectric Thin Films journal, September 2009

The influence of the top-contact metal on the ferroelectric properties of epitaxial ferroelectric Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 thin films journal, December 2008

Ionized oxygen vacancy-related electrical conductivity in (Pb 1− x La x )(Zr 0.90 Ti 0.10 ) 1− x /4 O 3 ceramics journal, October 2008

Domain-wall conduction in ferroelectric BiFeO3 controlled by accumulation of charged defects journal, November 2016

Tunable Metallic Conductance in Ferroelectric Nanodomains journal, December 2011

Dynamic Conductivity of Ferroelectric Domain Walls in BiFeO 3 journal, May 2011

Bundles of polytwins as meta-elastic domains in the thin polycrystalline simple multi-ferroic system PZT journal, January 2010

A high-mobility electron gas at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterointerface journal, January 2004

Free-electron gas at charged domain walls in insulating BaTiO3 journal, May 2013

Friendship stability in adolescence is associated with ventral striatum responses to vicarious rewards journal, January 2021

Correlated polarization switching in the proximity of a 180 ° domain wall journal, July 2010

Local conductivity and the role of vacancies around twin walls of (001)−BiFeO 3 thin films journal, September 2012

Local polarization dynamics in ferroelectric materials journal, April 2010

Spatially Inhomogeneous Metal-Insulator Transition in Doped Manganites journal, September 1999

Domain Bundle Boundaries in Single Crystal BaTiO 3 Lamellae: Searching for Naturally Forming Dipole Flux-Closure/Quadrupole Chains journal, October 2010

Deterministic control of ferroelastic switching in multiferroic materials journal, October 2009

Microwave a.c. conductivity of domain walls in ferroelectric thin films journal, May 2016

Negative differential resistivity and positive temperature coefficient of resistivity effect in the diffusion-limited current of ferroelectric thin-film capacitors journal, November 2004

Direct imaging of the coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface journal, September 2011

Flux Closure Vortexlike Domain Structures in Ferroelectric Thin Films journal, May 2010

Band gap and Schottky barrier heights of multiferroic BiFeO3 journal, March 2007

Conduction of Topologically Protected Charged Ferroelectric Domain Walls journal, February 2012

Electric control of straight stripe conductive mixed-phase nanostructures in La-doped BiFeO3 journal, January 2014

Electrical conduction in nanodomains in congruent lithium tantalate single crystal journal, January 2014

Domain Wall Conductivity in La-Doped BiFeO 3 journal, November 2010

Ferroelectric polarization-leakage current relation in high quality epitaxial Pb ( Zr , Ti ) O 3 films journal, March 2007

Intrinsic space charge layers and field enhancement in ferroelectric nanojunctions journal, July 2015

Nanoscale polarization switching mechanisms in multiferroic BiFeO 3 thin films journal, March 2011

Non-volatile domain nucleation and growth in multiferroic BiFeO 3 films journal, May 2011

Direct Observation of Pinning and Bowing of a Single Ferroelectric Domain Wall journal, May 1999

Topologically protected surface states in a centrosymmetric superconductor β-PdBi2 journal, October 2015

Characterization of domain distributions by second harmonic generation in ferroelectrics journal, July 2018

Physics and applications of charged domain walls journal, November 2018

Intrinsic Conductance of Domain Walls in BiFeO 3 journal, June 2019

Segregation Induced Self-Assembly of Highly Active Perovskite for Rapid Oxygen Reduction Reaction journal, September 2018

Manipulation of Conductive Domain Walls in Confined Ferroelectric Nanoislands journal, May 2019

Dielectric relaxation and local domain structures of ferroelectric PIMNT and PMNT single crystals journal, October 2019

Estimating the Dimension of a Model
journal, March 1978

Nanoscale Domain Control in Multiferroic BiFeO₃ Thin Films
journal, September 2006

Conduction at domain walls in insulating Pb(Zr$_{0.2}$Ti$_{0.8}$)O$_3$ thin films
text, January 2012

Multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films processed via chemical solution deposition: Structural and electrical characterization
journal, May 2005

Mesoscale flux-closure domain formation in single-crystal BaTiO₃
journal, July 2011

Electrical Control of Multiferroic Orderings in Mixed-Phase BiFeO3 Films
journal, May 2012

Nanoscale Origins of Nonlinear Behavior in Ferroic Thin Films
journal, August 2012

Persistent conductive footprints of 109° domain walls in bismuth ferrite films
journal, March 2014

Conduction at domain walls in oxide multiferroics
journal, January 2009

Full-field X-ray reflection microscopy of epitaxial thin-films
journal, October 2014

Anisotropic conductance at improper ferroelectric domain walls
journal, February 2012

Anisotropic conductance at improper ferroelectric domain walls
journal, February 2012

Efficient Photovoltaic Current Generation at Ferroelectric Domain Walls
journal, September 2011

Local conductivity and the role of vacancies around twin walls of (001)−BiFeO ₃ thin films
journal, September 2012

Domain wall conduction in multiaxial ferroelectrics
text, January 2011

Conduction at Domain Walls in Insulating Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 Thin Films
journal, September 2011

Domain wall conduction in multiaxial ferroelectrics
journal, January 2012

Bundles of polytwins as meta-elastic domains in the thin polycrystalline simple multi-ferroic system PZT
journal, January 2010

Domain Wall Conduction and Polarization-Mediated Transport in Ferroelectrics
journal, April 2013

Spatially Inhomogeneous Metal-Insulator Transition in Doped Manganites
journal, September 1999

Electronic Properties of Isosymmetric Phase Boundaries in Highly Strained Ca-Doped BiFeO ₃
journal, April 2014

Observation of a periodic array of flux-closure quadrants in strained ferroelectric PbTiO3 films
journal, April 2015

Phase-Field Method of Phase Transitions/Domain Structures in Ferroelectric Thin Films: A Review
journal, June 2008

Exploring Topological Defects in Epitaxial BiFeO ₃ Thin Films
journal, January 2011

Enhancement of the anisotropic photocurrent in ferroelectric oxides by strain gradients
journal, August 2015

Enhanced electric conductivity at ferroelectric vortex cores in BiFeO3
journal, November 2011

Nucleation, growth, and control of ferroelectric-ferroelastic domains in thin polycrystalline films
journal, November 2012

Atomic-Scale Evolution of Local Electronic Structure Across Multiferroic Domain Walls
journal, February 2011

Tunable Metallic Conductance in Ferroelectric Nanodomains
journal, December 2011

Direct Observation of Continuous Electric Dipole Rotation in Flux-Closure Domains in Ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3
journal, March 2011

Spontaneous Vortex Nanodomain Arrays at Ferroelectric Heterointerfaces
journal, February 2011

Negative Differential Resistivity and Positive Temperature Coefficient of Resistivity effect in the diffusion limited current of ferroelectric thin film capacitors
text, January 2004

Conducting Domain Walls in Lithium Niobate Single Crystals
journal, May 2012

Towards reversible control of domain wall conduction in Pb(Zr _0.2 Ti _0.8 )O ₃ thin films
journal, April 2015

Observation of polar vortices in oxide superlattices
journal, January 2016

Polarization charge as a reconfigurable quasi-dopant in ferroelectric thin films
journal, June 2015

Direct imaging of the coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface
text, January 2011

Enhanced electromechanical response of ferroelectrics due to charged domain walls
journal, January 2012

Conduction through 71° Domain Walls in ${BiFeO}_{3}$ Thin Films
journal, September 2011

Labile Ferroelastic Nanodomains in Bilayered Ferroelectric Thin Films
journal, September 2009

The influence of the top-contact metal on the ferroelectric properties of epitaxial ferroelectric Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 thin films
journal, December 2008

Ionized oxygen vacancy-related electrical conductivity in (Pb _{1− x} La _x )(Zr _0.90 Ti _0.10 ) _{1− x /4} O ₃ ceramics
journal, October 2008

Domain-wall conduction in ferroelectric BiFeO3 controlled by accumulation of charged defects
journal, November 2016

Tunable Metallic Conductance in Ferroelectric Nanodomains
journal, December 2011

Dynamic Conductivity of Ferroelectric Domain Walls in BiFeO ₃
journal, May 2011

Bundles of polytwins as meta-elastic domains in the thin polycrystalline simple multi-ferroic system PZT
journal, January 2010

A high-mobility electron gas at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterointerface
journal, January 2004

Free-electron gas at charged domain walls in insulating BaTiO3
journal, May 2013

Friendship stability in adolescence is associated with ventral striatum responses to vicarious rewards
journal, January 2021

Correlated polarization switching in the proximity of a $180 °$ domain wall
journal, July 2010

Local conductivity and the role of vacancies around twin walls of (001)−BiFeO ₃ thin films
journal, September 2012

Local polarization dynamics in ferroelectric materials
journal, April 2010

Spatially Inhomogeneous Metal-Insulator Transition in Doped Manganites
journal, September 1999

Domain Bundle Boundaries in Single Crystal BaTiO ₃ Lamellae: Searching for Naturally Forming Dipole Flux-Closure/Quadrupole Chains
journal, October 2010

Deterministic control of ferroelastic switching in multiferroic materials
journal, October 2009

Microwave a.c. conductivity of domain walls in ferroelectric thin films
journal, May 2016

Negative differential resistivity and positive temperature coefficient of resistivity effect in the diffusion-limited current of ferroelectric thin-film capacitors
journal, November 2004

Direct imaging of the coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity at the LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃ interface
journal, September 2011

Flux Closure Vortexlike Domain Structures in Ferroelectric Thin Films
journal, May 2010

Band gap and Schottky barrier heights of multiferroic BiFeO3
journal, March 2007

Conduction of Topologically Protected Charged Ferroelectric Domain Walls
journal, February 2012

Electric control of straight stripe conductive mixed-phase nanostructures in La-doped BiFeO3
journal, January 2014

Electrical conduction in nanodomains in congruent lithium tantalate single crystal
journal, January 2014

Domain Wall Conductivity in La-Doped ${BiFeO}_{3}$
journal, November 2010

Ferroelectric polarization-leakage current relation in high quality epitaxial $Pb (Zr, Ti) O_{3}$ films
journal, March 2007

Intrinsic space charge layers and field enhancement in ferroelectric nanojunctions
journal, July 2015

Nanoscale polarization switching mechanisms in multiferroic BiFeO ₃ thin films
journal, March 2011

Non-volatile domain nucleation and growth in multiferroic BiFeO ₃ films
journal, May 2011

Direct Observation of Pinning and Bowing of a Single Ferroelectric Domain Wall
journal, May 1999

Topologically protected surface states in a centrosymmetric superconductor β-PdBi2
journal, October 2015

Characterization of domain distributions by second harmonic generation in ferroelectrics
journal, July 2018

Physics and applications of charged domain walls
journal, November 2018

Intrinsic Conductance of Domain Walls in BiFeO 3
journal, June 2019

Segregation Induced Self-Assembly of Highly Active Perovskite for Rapid Oxygen Reduction Reaction
journal, September 2018

Manipulation of Conductive Domain Walls in Confined Ferroelectric Nanoislands
journal, May 2019

Dielectric relaxation and local domain structures of ferroelectric PIMNT and PMNT single crystals
journal, October 2019