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Title: Infrared nano-spectroscopy of ferroelastic domain walls in hybrid improper ferroelectric Ca3Ti2O7

Journal Article · · Nature Communications
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  1. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  2. New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ (United States); Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States); Univ. of California, Merced, CA (United States)
  3. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
  4. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
  6. Pohang Accelerator Lab. (PAL) (Korea, Republic of); Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology (POSTECH) (Korea, Republic of)
  7. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
  8. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States); Pohang Accelerator Lab. (PAL) (Korea, Republic of); Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology (POSTECH) (Korea, Republic of)
  9. Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
  10. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)

Ferroic materials are well known to exhibit heterogeneity in the form of domain walls. Understanding the properties of these boundaries is crucial for controlling functionality with external stimuli and for realizing their potential for ultra-low power memory and logic devices as well as novel computing architectures. In this work, we employ synchrotron-based near-field infrared nano-spectroscopy to reveal the vibrational properties of ferroelastic (90° ferroelectric) domain walls in the hybrid improper ferroelectric Ca3Ti2O7. By locally mapping the Ti-O stretching and Ti-O-Ti bending modes, we reveal how structural order parameters rotate across a wall. Thus, we link observed near-field amplitude changes to underlying structural modulations and test ferroelectric switching models against real space measurements of local structure. This initiative opens the door to broadband infrared nano-imaging of heterogeneity in ferroics.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); US Army Research Office (ARO); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22), Scientific User Facilities Division (SC-22.3 ); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; FG02-01ER45885; SC0008807; SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1579491
Report Number(s):
BNL--212398-2019-JAAM
Journal Information:
Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 10; ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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