Strain-Driven Nanoscale Phase Competition near the Antipolar–Nonpolar Phase Boundary in Bi0.7La0.3FeO3 Thin Films

Dedon, Liv R.; Chen, Zuhuang; Gao, Ran; Qi, Yajun; Arenholz, Elke; Martin, Lane W.

doi:10.1021/acsami.8b02597

Title: Strain-Driven Nanoscale Phase Competition near the Antipolar–Nonpolar Phase Boundary in Bi_0.7La_0.3FeO₃ Thin Films

Journal Article · 11 April 2018 · ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b02597 · OSTI ID:1530359

Dedon, Liv R. ^[1]; Chen, Zuhuang ^[2]; Gao, Ran ^[1]; Qi, Yajun ^[3]; Arenholz, Elke ^[4];

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Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Harbin Inst. of Technology (China)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Hubei Univ., Wuhan (China)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Complex-oxide materials tuned to be near phase boundaries via chemistry/composition, temperature, pressure, etc. are known to exhibit large susceptibilities. Here, we observe a strain-driven nanoscale phase competition in epitaxially constrained Bi_0.7La_0.3FeO₃ thin films near the antipolar-nonpolar phase boundary and explore the evolution of the structural, dielectric, (anti)ferroelectric, and magnetic properties with strain. We find that compressive and tensile strains can stabilize an antipolar PbZrO₃-like Pbam phase and a nonpolar Pnma orthorhombic phase, respectively. Heterostructures grown with little to no strain exhibit a self-assembled nanoscale mixture of the two orthorhombic phases, wherein the relative fraction of each phase can be modified with film thickness. Subsequent investigation of the dielectric and (anti)ferroelectric properties reveals an electric-field-driven phase transformation from the nonpolar phase to the antipolar phase. X-ray linear dichroism reveals that the antiferromagnetic-spin axes can be effectively modified by the strain-induced phase transition. This evolution of antiferromagnetic-spin axes can be leveraged in exchange coupling between the antiferromagnetic Bi_0.7La_0.3FeO₃ and a ferromagnetic Co0.9Fe0.1 layer to tune the ferromagnetic easy axis of the Co_0.9Fe_0.1. These results demonstrate that besides chemical alloying, epitaxial strain is an alternative and effective way to modify subtle phase relations and tune physical properties in rare earth-alloyed BiFeO₃. Furthermore, the observation of antiferroelectric-antiferromagnetic properties in the Pbam Bi_0.7La_0.3FeO₃ phase could be of significant scientific interest and great potential in magnetoelectric devices because of its dual antiferroic nature.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1530359

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 10, Issue 17; ISSN 1944-8244

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