Vortex Domain Walls in Ferroelectrics

Hong, Zijian; Das, Sujit; Nelson, Christopher; Yadav, Ajay; Wu, Yongjun; Junquera, Javier; Chen, Long-Qing; Martin, Lane W.; Ramesh, Ramamoorthy

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00404

Vortex Domain Walls in Ferroelectrics

Journal Article · Mon Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Nano Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00404· OSTI ID:1806304

^[1]; Das, Sujit ^[2]; Nelson, Christopher ^[3]; Yadav, Ajay ^[2]; Wu, Yongjun ^[4]; Junquera, Javier ^[5]; Chen, Long-Qing ^[6]; Martin, Lane W. ^[7]; Ramesh, Ramamoorthy ^[7]

Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou (China); Penn State University
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou (China)
Univ. of Cantabria, Santander, Cantabria (Spain)
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Controlling the domain formation in ferroelectric materials at the nanoscale is a fertile ground to explore emergent phenomena and their technological prospects. For example, charged ferroelectric domain walls in BiFeO₃ and ErMnO₃ exhibit significantly enhanced conductivity which could serve as the foundation for next-generation circuits. In this work, we describe a concept in which polar vortices perform the same role as a ferroelectric domain wall in classical domain structures with the key difference being that the polar vortices can accommodate charged (i.e., head-to-head and tail-to-tail) domains, for example, in ferroelectric PbTiO₃/dielectric SrTiO₃ superlattices. Such a vortex domain wall structure can be manipulated in a reversible fashion under an external applied field.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; SC0012375; SC0020145

OSTI ID:: 1806304

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1806307
OSTI ID: 1840942
OSTI ID: 1880840

Journal Information:: Nano Letters, Journal Name: Nano Letters Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 21; ISSN 1530-6984

Publisher:: American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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