Enhanced pyroelectric properties of Bi1-x La x FeO 3 thin films

Zhang, Lei; Huang, Yen-Lin; Velarde, Gabriel; Ghosh, Anirban; Pandya, Shishir; Garcia, David; Ramesh, Ramamoorthy; Martin, Lane W.

doi:10.1063/1.5128413

Title: Enhanced pyroelectric properties of Bi_1-x La _x FeO ₃ thin films

Journal Article · 22 November 2019 · APL Materials

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5128413 · OSTI ID:1619136

^[1]; Huang, Yen-Lin ^[2]; Velarde, Gabriel ^[3]; Ghosh, Anirban ^[3]; Pandya, Shishir ^[3]; Garcia, David ^[3]; Ramesh, Ramamoorthy ^[1];

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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering

There is growing interest in the study of thin-film pyroelectric materials because of their potential for high performance thermal-energy conversion, thermal sensing, and beyond. Electrothermal susceptibilities, such as pyroelectricity, are known to be enhanced in proximity to polar instabilities, and this is conventionally accomplished by positioning the material close to a temperature-driven ferroelectric-to-paraelectric phase transition. The high Curie temperature (T_C) for many ferroelectrics, however, limits the utility of these materials at room-temperature. Here, the nature of pyroelectric response in thin films of the widely studied multiferroic Bi_1-xLa_xFeO₃ (x = 0-0.45) is probed. While BiFeO₃ itself has a high T_C, lanthanum substitution results in a chemically induced lowering of the ferroelectric-to-paraelectric and structural-phase transition. The effect of isovalent lanthanum substitution on the structural, dielectric, ferroelectric, and pyroelectric response is investigated using reciprocal-space-mapping studies; field-, frequency-, and temperature-dependent electrical measurements; and phase-sensitive pyroelectric measurements, respectively. While BiFeO₃ itself has a rather small pyroelectric coefficient at room temperature (~-40 μC/m² K), 15% lanthanum substitution results in an enhancement of the pyroelectric coefficient by 100% which is found to arise from a systematic lowering of T_C.

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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:: 1619136

Journal Information:: APL Materials, Vol. 7, Issue 11; ISSN 2166-532X

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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