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Title: Interface and thickness dependent domain switching and stability in Mg doped lithium niobate

Abstract

Controlling ferroelectric switching in Mg doped lithium niobate (Mg: LN) is of fundamental importance for optical device and domain wall electronics applications that require precise domain patterns. Stable ferroelectric switching has been previously observed in undoped LN layers above proton exchanged (PE) phases that exhibit reduced polarization, whereas PE layers have been found to inhibit lateral domain growth. Here, Mg doping, which is known to significantly alter ferroelectric switching properties including coercive field and switching currents, is shown to inhibit domain nucleation and stability in Mg: LN above buried PE phases that allow for precise ferroelectric patterning via domain growth control. Furthermore, piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) and switching spectroscopy PFM reveal that the voltage at which polarization switches from the "up" to the "down" state increases with increasing thickness in pure Mg: LN, whereas the voltage required for stable back switching to the original "up" state does not exhibit this thickness dependence. This behavior is consistent with the presence of an internal frozen defect field. The inhibition of domain nucleation above PE interfaces, observed in this study, is a phenomenon that occurs in Mg: LN but not in undoped samples and is mainly ascribed to a remaining frozen polarization inmore » the PE phase that opposes polarization reversal. This reduced frozen depolarization field in the PE phase also influences the depolarization field of the Mg: LN layer above due to the presence of uncompensated polarization charge at the PE-Mg: LN boundary. Furthermore, these alterations in internal electric fields within the sample cause long-range lattice distortions in Mg: LN via electromechanical coupling, which were corroborated with complimentary Raman measurements.« less

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  1. Univ. College Dublin, Dublin (Ireland)
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  3. KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)
  4. Aveiro Institute of Materials, Aveiro (Portugal); Ural Federal Univ., Ekaterinburg (Russia)
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
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OSTI Identifier:
1337840
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OSTI ID: 1228435
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
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Journal Name:
Journal of Applied Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 118; Journal Issue: 22; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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Neumayer, Sabine M., Ivanov, Ilia N., Manzo, Michele, Kholkin, Andrei L., Gallo, Katia, and Rodriguez, Brian J. Interface and thickness dependent domain switching and stability in Mg doped lithium niobate. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4936605.
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Neumayer, Sabine M., Ivanov, Ilia N., Manzo, Michele, Kholkin, Andrei L., Gallo, Katia, & Rodriguez, Brian J. Interface and thickness dependent domain switching and stability in Mg doped lithium niobate. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4936605
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Neumayer, Sabine M., Ivanov, Ilia N., Manzo, Michele, Kholkin, Andrei L., Gallo, Katia, and Rodriguez, Brian J. Tue . "Interface and thickness dependent domain switching and stability in Mg doped lithium niobate". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4936605. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1337840.
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@article{osti_1337840,
title = {Interface and thickness dependent domain switching and stability in Mg doped lithium niobate},
author = {Neumayer, Sabine M. and Ivanov, Ilia N. and Manzo, Michele and Kholkin, Andrei L. and Gallo, Katia and Rodriguez, Brian J.},
abstractNote = {Controlling ferroelectric switching in Mg doped lithium niobate (Mg: LN) is of fundamental importance for optical device and domain wall electronics applications that require precise domain patterns. Stable ferroelectric switching has been previously observed in undoped LN layers above proton exchanged (PE) phases that exhibit reduced polarization, whereas PE layers have been found to inhibit lateral domain growth. Here, Mg doping, which is known to significantly alter ferroelectric switching properties including coercive field and switching currents, is shown to inhibit domain nucleation and stability in Mg: LN above buried PE phases that allow for precise ferroelectric patterning via domain growth control. Furthermore, piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) and switching spectroscopy PFM reveal that the voltage at which polarization switches from the "up" to the "down" state increases with increasing thickness in pure Mg: LN, whereas the voltage required for stable back switching to the original "up" state does not exhibit this thickness dependence. This behavior is consistent with the presence of an internal frozen defect field. The inhibition of domain nucleation above PE interfaces, observed in this study, is a phenomenon that occurs in Mg: LN but not in undoped samples and is mainly ascribed to a remaining frozen polarization in the PE phase that opposes polarization reversal. This reduced frozen depolarization field in the PE phase also influences the depolarization field of the Mg: LN layer above due to the presence of uncompensated polarization charge at the PE-Mg: LN boundary. Furthermore, these alterations in internal electric fields within the sample cause long-range lattice distortions in Mg: LN via electromechanical coupling, which were corroborated with complimentary Raman measurements.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4936605},
journal = {Journal of Applied Physics},
number = 22,
volume = 118,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Dec 08 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Tue Dec 08 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}
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