Domain Dynamics under Ultrafast Electric-Field Pulses
Abstract
Exploring the dynamic responses of a material is of importance to both understanding its fundamental physics at high frequencies and potential device applications. Here we develop a phase-field model for predicting the dynamics of ferroelectric materials and study the dynamic responses of ferroelectric domains and domain walls subjected to an ultrafast electric field pulse. We discover a transition of domain evolution mechanisms from pure domain growth at a relatively low field to combined nucleation and growth of domains at a high field. We derive analytical models for the two regimes which allow us to extract the effective mass and damping coefficient of ferroelectric domain walls. The exhibition of two regimes for the ferroelectric domain dynamics at low and high electric fields is expected to be a general phenomenon that would appear for ferroic domains under other ultrafast stimuli. Finally, the present work also offers a general framework for studying domain dynamics and obtaining fundamental properties of domain walls and thus for manipulating the dynamic functionalities of ferroelectric materials.
- Authors:
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[1];
[1];
[2];
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- Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
- Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States); Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1605093
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1604511
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012375; DMR-1744213; SC-0012375
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 124; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; ultrafast; ultra fast; domain dynamics; electric field pulses; domain walls; ferroelectric domains; lattice dynamics; ultrashort pulses; phase-field modeling
Citation Formats
Yang, Tiannan, Wang, Bo, Hu, Jia-Mian, and Chen, Long-Qing. Domain Dynamics under Ultrafast Electric-Field Pulses. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.107601.
Yang, Tiannan, Wang, Bo, Hu, Jia-Mian, & Chen, Long-Qing. Domain Dynamics under Ultrafast Electric-Field Pulses. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.107601
Yang, Tiannan, Wang, Bo, Hu, Jia-Mian, and Chen, Long-Qing. Fri .
"Domain Dynamics under Ultrafast Electric-Field Pulses". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.107601. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1605093.
@article{osti_1605093,
title = {Domain Dynamics under Ultrafast Electric-Field Pulses},
author = {Yang, Tiannan and Wang, Bo and Hu, Jia-Mian and Chen, Long-Qing},
abstractNote = {Exploring the dynamic responses of a material is of importance to both understanding its fundamental physics at high frequencies and potential device applications. Here we develop a phase-field model for predicting the dynamics of ferroelectric materials and study the dynamic responses of ferroelectric domains and domain walls subjected to an ultrafast electric field pulse. We discover a transition of domain evolution mechanisms from pure domain growth at a relatively low field to combined nucleation and growth of domains at a high field. We derive analytical models for the two regimes which allow us to extract the effective mass and damping coefficient of ferroelectric domain walls. The exhibition of two regimes for the ferroelectric domain dynamics at low and high electric fields is expected to be a general phenomenon that would appear for ferroic domains under other ultrafast stimuli. Finally, the present work also offers a general framework for studying domain dynamics and obtaining fundamental properties of domain walls and thus for manipulating the dynamic functionalities of ferroelectric materials.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.107601},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 10,
volume = 124,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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