Mechanical-force-induced non-local collective ferroelastic switching in epitaxial lead-titanate thin films
Abstract
Ferroelastic switching in ferroelectric/multiferroic oxides plays a crucial role in determining their dielectric, piezoelectric, and magnetoelectric properties. In thin films of these materials, however, substrate clamping is generally thought to limit the electric-field- or mechanicalforce-driven responses to the local scale. Here, we report mechanical-force-induced large-area, non-local, collective ferroelastic domain switching in PbTiO3 epitaxial thin films by tuning the misfit-strain to be near a phase boundary wherein c/a and a(1)/a(2) nanodomains coexist. Phenomenological models suggest that the collective, c-a-c-a ferroelastic switching arises from the small potential barrier between the degenerate domain structures, and the large anisotropy of a and c domains, which collectively generates much larger response and large-area domain propagation. Large-area, non-local response under small stimuli, unlike traditional local response to external field, provides an opportunity of unique response to local stimuli, which has potential for use in high-sensitivity pressure sensors and switches.
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- Harbin Inst. of Technology (China)
- Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
- Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore)
- Harbin Inst. of Technology (China). Condensed Matter Science and Technology Inst.
- Zhejiang Univ. of Technology, Hangzhou (China)
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
- Southern Univ. of Science and Technology, Shenzhen (China)
- Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Harbin Inst. of Technology (China). Condensed Matter Science and Technology Inst.; Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); US Army Research Office (ARO); National Science Foundation (NSF); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s EPiQS Initiative
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1580922
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- OSTI ID: 1598596
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; SC0012375; 11872019; 51802057; W911NF-14-1-0104; DMR-1708615; GBMF5307; 11672269; DMR-1744213; AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 42 ENGINEERING
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Lu, Xiaoyan, Chen, Zuhuang, Cao, Ye, Tang, Yunlong, Xu, Ruijuan, Saremi, Sahar, Zhang, Zhan, You, Lu, Dong, Yongqi, Das, Sujit, Zhang, Hangbo, Zheng, Limei, Wu, Huaping, Lv, Weiming, Xie, Guoqiang, Liu, Xingjun, Li, Jiangyu, Chen, Lang, Chen, Long-Qing, Cao, Wenwu, and Martin, Lane W. Mechanical-force-induced non-local collective ferroelastic switching in epitaxial lead-titanate thin films. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11825-2.
Lu, Xiaoyan, Chen, Zuhuang, Cao, Ye, Tang, Yunlong, Xu, Ruijuan, Saremi, Sahar, Zhang, Zhan, You, Lu, Dong, Yongqi, Das, Sujit, Zhang, Hangbo, Zheng, Limei, Wu, Huaping, Lv, Weiming, Xie, Guoqiang, Liu, Xingjun, Li, Jiangyu, Chen, Lang, Chen, Long-Qing, Cao, Wenwu, & Martin, Lane W. Mechanical-force-induced non-local collective ferroelastic switching in epitaxial lead-titanate thin films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11825-2
Lu, Xiaoyan, Chen, Zuhuang, Cao, Ye, Tang, Yunlong, Xu, Ruijuan, Saremi, Sahar, Zhang, Zhan, You, Lu, Dong, Yongqi, Das, Sujit, Zhang, Hangbo, Zheng, Limei, Wu, Huaping, Lv, Weiming, Xie, Guoqiang, Liu, Xingjun, Li, Jiangyu, Chen, Lang, Chen, Long-Qing, Cao, Wenwu, and Martin, Lane W. Mon .
"Mechanical-force-induced non-local collective ferroelastic switching in epitaxial lead-titanate thin films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11825-2. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1580922.
@article{osti_1580922,
title = {Mechanical-force-induced non-local collective ferroelastic switching in epitaxial lead-titanate thin films},
author = {Lu, Xiaoyan and Chen, Zuhuang and Cao, Ye and Tang, Yunlong and Xu, Ruijuan and Saremi, Sahar and Zhang, Zhan and You, Lu and Dong, Yongqi and Das, Sujit and Zhang, Hangbo and Zheng, Limei and Wu, Huaping and Lv, Weiming and Xie, Guoqiang and Liu, Xingjun and Li, Jiangyu and Chen, Lang and Chen, Long-Qing and Cao, Wenwu and Martin, Lane W.},
abstractNote = {Ferroelastic switching in ferroelectric/multiferroic oxides plays a crucial role in determining their dielectric, piezoelectric, and magnetoelectric properties. In thin films of these materials, however, substrate clamping is generally thought to limit the electric-field- or mechanicalforce-driven responses to the local scale. Here, we report mechanical-force-induced large-area, non-local, collective ferroelastic domain switching in PbTiO3 epitaxial thin films by tuning the misfit-strain to be near a phase boundary wherein c/a and a(1)/a(2) nanodomains coexist. Phenomenological models suggest that the collective, c-a-c-a ferroelastic switching arises from the small potential barrier between the degenerate domain structures, and the large anisotropy of a and c domains, which collectively generates much larger response and large-area domain propagation. Large-area, non-local response under small stimuli, unlike traditional local response to external field, provides an opportunity of unique response to local stimuli, which has potential for use in high-sensitivity pressure sensors and switches.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-019-11825-2},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {9}
}
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