Interface Engineering of Domain Structures in BiFeO3 Thin Films

Chen, Deyang; Chen, Zuhuang; He, Qian; Clarkson, James D.; Serrao, Claudy R.; Yadav, Ajay K.; Nowakowski, Mark E.; Fan, Zhen; You, Long; Gao, Xingsen; Zeng, Dechang; Chen, Lang; Borisevich, Albina Y.; Salahuddin, Sayeef; Liu, Jun -Ming; Bokor, Jeffrey

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04512

Title: Interface Engineering of Domain Structures in BiFeO₃ Thin Films

Journal Article · Wed Dec 07 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Nano Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04512· OSTI ID:1400211

^[1]; Chen, Zuhuang ^[2]; He, Qian ^[3]; Clarkson, James D. ^[2]; Serrao, Claudy R. ^[4]; Yadav, Ajay K. ^[2]; Nowakowski, Mark E. ^[4]; Fan, Zhen ^[5]; You, Long ^[6]; Gao, Xingsen ^[5]; Zeng, Dechang ^[7]; Chen, Lang ^[8];

^[3]; Salahuddin, Sayeef ^[4]; Liu, Jun -Ming ^[9]; Bokor, Jeffrey ^[4]

South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou (China). Inst. for Advanced Materials and Guangdong Provincial Key Lab. of Quantum Engineering and Quantum Materials; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering and Dept. of Physics; South China Univ. of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou (China). School of Materials Science and Engineering
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science and Technology Division
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou (China). Inst. for Advanced Materials and Guangdong Provincial Key Lab. of Quantum Engineering and Quantum Materials
Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Wuhan (China). School of Optical and Electronic Information
South China Univ. of Technology, Guangzhou (China). School of Materials Science and Engineering
South Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen (China). Dept. of Physics
South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou (China). Inst. for Advanced Materials and Guangdong Provincial Key Lab. of Quantum Engineering and Quantum Materials; Nanjing Univ., Nanjing (China). Lab. of Solid State Microstructures and Innovation Center for Advanced Microstructures

A wealth of fascinating phenomena have been discovered at the BiFeO₃ domain walls, examples such as domain wall conductivity, photovoltaic effects, and magnetoelectric coupling. Thus, the ability to precisely control the domain structures and accurately study their switching behaviors is critical to realize the next generation of novel devices based on domain wall functionalities. In this work, the introduction of a dielectric layer leads to the tunability of the depolarization field both in the multilayers and superlattices, which provides a novel approach to control the domain patterns of BiFeO₃ films. Moreover, we are able to study the switching behavior of the first time obtained periodic 109° stripe domains with a thick bottom electrode. Besides, the precise controlling of pure 71° and 109° periodic stripe domain walls enable us to make a clear demonstration that the exchange bias in the ferromagnet/BiFeO₃ system originates from 109° domain walls. Our findings provide future directions to study the room temperature electric field control of exchange bias and open a new pathway to explore the room temperature multiferroic vortices in the BiFeO₃ system.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Key Research and Development Program of China; National Science Foundation (NSF); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou (China)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; 2016YFA0201002; EEC-1160504; ECCS-0939514; 51431006; 11474146; 61674062; 51602110; 2016201604030070; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1400211

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1459377

Journal Information:: Nano Letters, Vol. 17, Issue 1; ISSN 1530-6984

Publisher:: American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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