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Title: Local probing of ferroelectric and ferroelastic switching through stress-mediated piezoelectric spectroscopy

Abstract

The role of local strains is fundamental to the large effective piezoelectric and ferroelectric response of thin films. Therefore a method to investigate local strain-induced phenomena is imperative. Here, pressure induced domain reorganization is reported in lead zirconate titanate films with composition near the morphotropic phase boundary. An approach is thus demonstrated to simultaneously study the role of applied mechanical pressure on multiple local properties of the film. In particular, the modification of hysteresis loops collected at different tip pressures is consistent with first mostly ferroelastic and then ferroelectric dominated reorientation of domains under increasing applied pressure. The pressure induced domain writing is also investigated through phase field simulations where the applied pressure is generally found to increase the in-plane polarization of the domains with respect to the out-of-plane component, corroborating the experimental observations. The approach developed here has the potential to explore other hysteretic phenomena and phase transitions in a spatially resolved manner with varying local pressure.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [3];  [1];  [2];  [2]
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  1. Queen’s Univ. Belfast, Belfast (United Kingdom)
  2. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
  3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  4. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
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Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1241469
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Advanced Materials Interfaces
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2196-7350
Publisher:
Wiley-VCH
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; ferroelastics; ferroelectrics; lead zirconate titanate; piezoresponse force microscopy; piezoelectric spectroscopy

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Edwards, David, Bastani, Yaser, Cao, Ye, Chen, Long -Qing, Kalinin, Sergei V., Kumar, Amit, Bassiri-Gharb, Nazanin, and Brewer, Steven. Local probing of ferroelectric and ferroelastic switching through stress-mediated piezoelectric spectroscopy. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1002/admi.201500470.
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Edwards, David, Bastani, Yaser, Cao, Ye, Chen, Long -Qing, Kalinin, Sergei V., Kumar, Amit, Bassiri-Gharb, Nazanin, & Brewer, Steven. Local probing of ferroelectric and ferroelastic switching through stress-mediated piezoelectric spectroscopy. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201500470
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Edwards, David, Bastani, Yaser, Cao, Ye, Chen, Long -Qing, Kalinin, Sergei V., Kumar, Amit, Bassiri-Gharb, Nazanin, and Brewer, Steven. Tue . "Local probing of ferroelectric and ferroelastic switching through stress-mediated piezoelectric spectroscopy". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201500470. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1241469.
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@article{osti_1241469,
title = {Local probing of ferroelectric and ferroelastic switching through stress-mediated piezoelectric spectroscopy},
author = {Edwards, David and Bastani, Yaser and Cao, Ye and Chen, Long -Qing and Kalinin, Sergei V. and Kumar, Amit and Bassiri-Gharb, Nazanin and Brewer, Steven},
abstractNote = {The role of local strains is fundamental to the large effective piezoelectric and ferroelectric response of thin films. Therefore a method to investigate local strain-induced phenomena is imperative. Here, pressure induced domain reorganization is reported in lead zirconate titanate films with composition near the morphotropic phase boundary. An approach is thus demonstrated to simultaneously study the role of applied mechanical pressure on multiple local properties of the film. In particular, the modification of hysteresis loops collected at different tip pressures is consistent with first mostly ferroelastic and then ferroelectric dominated reorientation of domains under increasing applied pressure. The pressure induced domain writing is also investigated through phase field simulations where the applied pressure is generally found to increase the in-plane polarization of the domains with respect to the out-of-plane component, corroborating the experimental observations. The approach developed here has the potential to explore other hysteretic phenomena and phase transitions in a spatially resolved manner with varying local pressure.},
doi = {10.1002/admi.201500470},
journal = {Advanced Materials Interfaces},
number = 6,
volume = 2,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 19 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Tue Jan 19 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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Figure 1 Figure 1: Pressure induced writing on a PZT film. (a) Topography, PFM (b) amplitude and (d) phase map of a central region written with -6 V DC bias applied through the tip. PFM (c) amplitude and (e) phase map of the same region (bias written), after a loading force ofmore » 1000 nN was applied from the tip to the smaller region indicated by the black dashed lines. A comparison of (b, d) with (c, e) shows reorganization of the domain structure upon application of loading force through the PFM tip.« less
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