Electric-field-induced structure and domain texture evolution in PbZrO3-based antiferroelectric by in-situ high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction

Liu, Hui; Fan, Longlong; Sun, Shengdong; Lin, Kun; Ren, Yang; Tan, Xiaoli; Xing, Xianran; Chen, Jun

doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2019.11.050

Electric-field-induced structure and domain texture evolution in PbZrO₃-based antiferroelectric by in-situ high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction

Journal Article · Mon Nov 18 23:00:00 EST 2019 · Acta Materialia

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2019.11.050· OSTI ID:1595710

Liu, Hui ^[1]; ^[1]; Sun, Shengdong ^[1]; Lin, Kun ^[1]; Ren, Yang ^[2]; ^[3]; Xing, Xianran ^[1]; ^[1]

Univ. of Science and Technology, Beijing (China)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Antiferroelectrics (AFEs) have a great potential for modern electronic devices by virtue of the large strain during the antiferroelectric-to-ferroelectric (AFE-FE) phase transition under external electric fields. Although the fascinating macroscopic properties of AFE materials have been extensively studied, it is still unclear how the underlying structure evolution engenders their defining properties. Here we employ an electric biasing in-situ high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction technique to reveal the phase, domain texture, and lattice evolution in a high performance PbZrO₃-based AFE material. During the reversible AFE-FE transition triggered by electric fields, the evolution of the superstructure for AFE pseudo-tetragonal and FE rhombohedral phase is found to display strong dependence on the angle with respect to the field direction. In contrast to previous prediction, it is found that there is no obvious domain reorientation in the AFE phase, when the system is far away from the AFE-FE transitions. The electric-field-induced FE rhombohedral phase exhibits an unusual microscopic behavior, distinguished from the normal one, presenting small changes in domain texture and lattice strain with electric field, and leading to a small piezoelectric response. The longitudinal, transverse, and volume strains estimated from the XRD peak profiles are well consistent with the macroscopic strain measurements. It is demonstrated that the large strain arises from the structural change associated with anisotropic lattice strain and highly preferential domain reorientation during the AFE-FE transitions. Finally, the AFE-FE switching sequence is constructed based on the present study, which provides a further understating of AFE materials.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Scientific User Facilities Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1595710

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1694079

Journal Information:: Acta Materialia, Journal Name: Acta Materialia Journal Issue: C Vol. 184; ISSN 1359-6454

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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