Nanosecond Optically Induced Phase Transformation in Compressively Strained BiFeO3 on LaAlO3

Ahn, Youngjun; Pateras, Anastasios; Marks, Samuel D.; Xu, Han; Zhou, Tao; Luo, Zhenlin; Chen, Zuhuang; Chen, Lang; Zhang, Xiaoyi; DiChiara, Anthony D.; Wen, Haidan; Evans, Paul G.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.045703

Title: Nanosecond Optically Induced Phase Transformation in Compressively Strained ${BiFeO}_{3}$ on ${LaAlO}_{3}$

Journal Article · 26 July 2019 · Physical Review Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.045703 · OSTI ID:1558805

Ahn, Youngjun ^[1]; Pateras, Anastasios ^[1]; Marks, Samuel D. ^[1]; Xu, Han ^[2]; Zhou, Tao ^[3]; Luo, Zhenlin ^[2]; Chen, Zuhuang ^[4]; Chen, Lang ^[5]; Zhang, Xiaoyi ^[6]; DiChiara, Anthony D. ^[6]; Wen, Haidan ^[6]; Evans, Paul G. ^[1]

Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI (United States)
Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Anhui (China)
ID01/ESRF, Grenoble Cedex (France)
Harbin Inst. of Technology, Shenzhen (China)
Southern Univ. of Science and Technology, Guangdong (China)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Above-band-gap optical illumination of compressively strained BiFeO₃ induces a transient reversible transformation from a state of coexisting tilted tetragonal-like and rhombohedral-like phases to an untilted tetragonal-like phase. Time-resolved synchrotron x-ray diffraction reveals that the transformation is induced by an ultrafast optically induced lattice expansion that shifts the relative free energies of the tetragonal-like and rhombohedral-like phases. The transformation proceeds at interfaces between regions of the tetragonal-like phase and regions of a mixture of tilted phases, consistent with the motion of a phase boundary. The optically induced transformation demonstrates that there are new optically driven routes towards nanosecond-scale control of phase transformations in ferroelectrics and multiferroics.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); Harbin Institute of Technology; National Science Foundation of China; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Key Basic Research Program of China

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1558805

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 123; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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