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Title: Voltage-Controlled Bistable Thermal Conductivity in Suspended Ferroelectric Thin-Film Membranes

Abstract

Ferroelastic domain walls in ferroelectric materials possess two properties that are known to affect phonon transport: a change in crystallographic orientation and a lattice strain. Changing populations and spacing of nanoscale-spaced ferroelastic domain walls lead to the manipulation of phonon-scattering rates, enabling the control of thermal conduction at ambient temperatures. In the present work, lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin-film membrane structures were fabricated to reduce mechanical clamping to the substrate and enable a subsequent increase in the ferroelastic domain wall mobility. Under application of an electric field, the thermal conductivity of PZT increases abruptly at similar to 100 kV/cm by similar to 13% owing to a reduction in the number of phonon-scattering domain walls in the thermal conduction path. The thermal conductivity modulation is rapid, repeatable, and discrete, resulting in a bistable state or a "digital" modulation scheme. The modulation of thermal conductivity due to changes in domain wall configuration is supported by polarization-field, mechanical stiffness, and in situ microdiffraction experiments. This work opens a path toward a new means to control phonons and phonon-mediated energy in a digital manner at room temperature using only an electric field.

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 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [5];  [5];  [6];  [3]; ORCiD logo [7]
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  1. Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States); The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
  2. The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States); General Electric, Niskayuna, NY (United States)
  3. Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
  4. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
  5. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
  6. The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
  7. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
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Research Org.:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF); Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
OSTI Identifier:
1465382
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1481749
Report Number(s):
SAND-2018-8415J
Journal ID: ISSN 1944-8244; 666627
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC04-94AL85000; AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 30; Journal ID: ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; domains; ferroelectric; nanodomain; phonons; time-domain thermoreflectance; tunable

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Foley, Brian M., Wallace, Margeaux, Gaskins, John T., Paisley, Elizabeth A., Johnson-Wilke, Raegan L., Kim, Jong -Woo, Ryan, Philip J., Trolier-McKinstry, Susan, Hopkins, Patrick E., and Ihlefeld, Jon F. Voltage-Controlled Bistable Thermal Conductivity in Suspended Ferroelectric Thin-Film Membranes. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1021/acsami.8b04169.
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Foley, Brian M., Wallace, Margeaux, Gaskins, John T., Paisley, Elizabeth A., Johnson-Wilke, Raegan L., Kim, Jong -Woo, Ryan, Philip J., Trolier-McKinstry, Susan, Hopkins, Patrick E., & Ihlefeld, Jon F. Voltage-Controlled Bistable Thermal Conductivity in Suspended Ferroelectric Thin-Film Membranes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b04169
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Foley, Brian M., Wallace, Margeaux, Gaskins, John T., Paisley, Elizabeth A., Johnson-Wilke, Raegan L., Kim, Jong -Woo, Ryan, Philip J., Trolier-McKinstry, Susan, Hopkins, Patrick E., and Ihlefeld, Jon F. Fri . "Voltage-Controlled Bistable Thermal Conductivity in Suspended Ferroelectric Thin-Film Membranes". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b04169. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1465382.
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@article{osti_1465382,
title = {Voltage-Controlled Bistable Thermal Conductivity in Suspended Ferroelectric Thin-Film Membranes},
author = {Foley, Brian M. and Wallace, Margeaux and Gaskins, John T. and Paisley, Elizabeth A. and Johnson-Wilke, Raegan L. and Kim, Jong -Woo and Ryan, Philip J. and Trolier-McKinstry, Susan and Hopkins, Patrick E. and Ihlefeld, Jon F.},
abstractNote = {Ferroelastic domain walls in ferroelectric materials possess two properties that are known to affect phonon transport: a change in crystallographic orientation and a lattice strain. Changing populations and spacing of nanoscale-spaced ferroelastic domain walls lead to the manipulation of phonon-scattering rates, enabling the control of thermal conduction at ambient temperatures. In the present work, lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin-film membrane structures were fabricated to reduce mechanical clamping to the substrate and enable a subsequent increase in the ferroelastic domain wall mobility. Under application of an electric field, the thermal conductivity of PZT increases abruptly at similar to 100 kV/cm by similar to 13% owing to a reduction in the number of phonon-scattering domain walls in the thermal conduction path. The thermal conductivity modulation is rapid, repeatable, and discrete, resulting in a bistable state or a "digital" modulation scheme. The modulation of thermal conductivity due to changes in domain wall configuration is supported by polarization-field, mechanical stiffness, and in situ microdiffraction experiments. This work opens a path toward a new means to control phonons and phonon-mediated energy in a digital manner at room temperature using only an electric field.},
doi = {10.1021/acsami.8b04169},
journal = {ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces},
number = 30,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jul 06 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Jul 06 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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