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Title: Giant Superelastic Piezoelectricity in Flexible Ferroelectric BaTiO3 Membranes

Abstract

Mechanical displacement in commonly used piezoelectric materials is typically restricted to linear or biaxial in nature and to a few percent of the material dimensions. Here in this paper, we show that free-standing BaTiO3 membranes exhibit nonconventional electromechanical coupling. Under an external electric field, these superelastic membranes undergo controllable and reversible “sushi-rolling-like” 180° folding–unfolding cycles. This crease-free folding is mediated by charged ferroelectric domains, leading to giant >3.8 and 4.6 μm displacements for a 30 nm thick membrane at room temperature and 60 °C, respectively. Further increasing the electric field above the coercive value changes the fold curvature, hence augmenting the effective piezoresponse. Finally, it is found that the membranes fold with increasing temperature followed by complete immobility of the membrane above the Curie temperature, allowing us to model the ferroelectric domain origin of the effect.

Authors:
 [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [2];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology, Haifa (Israel). Solid State Institute
  2. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  3. Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology, Haifa (Israel)
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); Israel Science Foundation (ISF); Technion Russel Barry Nanoscience Institute
OSTI Identifier:
1637316
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; SC0012375; 602/17; DMR-1708615
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
ACS Nano
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 14; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; flexible piezoelectrics; flexible ferroelectrics; piezoelectric membrane; ferroelectric membrane; crease-free folding; in situ microscopy

Citation Formats

Elangovan, Hemaprabha, Barzilay, Maya, Seremi, Sahar, Cohen, Noy, Jiang, Yizhe, Martin, Lane W., and Ivry, Yachin. Giant Superelastic Piezoelectricity in Flexible Ferroelectric BaTiO3 Membranes. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1021/acsnano.0c01615.
Elangovan, Hemaprabha, Barzilay, Maya, Seremi, Sahar, Cohen, Noy, Jiang, Yizhe, Martin, Lane W., & Ivry, Yachin. Giant Superelastic Piezoelectricity in Flexible Ferroelectric BaTiO3 Membranes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c01615
Elangovan, Hemaprabha, Barzilay, Maya, Seremi, Sahar, Cohen, Noy, Jiang, Yizhe, Martin, Lane W., and Ivry, Yachin. Thu . "Giant Superelastic Piezoelectricity in Flexible Ferroelectric BaTiO3 Membranes". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c01615. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1637316.
@article{osti_1637316,
title = {Giant Superelastic Piezoelectricity in Flexible Ferroelectric BaTiO3 Membranes},
author = {Elangovan, Hemaprabha and Barzilay, Maya and Seremi, Sahar and Cohen, Noy and Jiang, Yizhe and Martin, Lane W. and Ivry, Yachin},
abstractNote = {Mechanical displacement in commonly used piezoelectric materials is typically restricted to linear or biaxial in nature and to a few percent of the material dimensions. Here in this paper, we show that free-standing BaTiO3 membranes exhibit nonconventional electromechanical coupling. Under an external electric field, these superelastic membranes undergo controllable and reversible “sushi-rolling-like” 180° folding–unfolding cycles. This crease-free folding is mediated by charged ferroelectric domains, leading to giant >3.8 and 4.6 μm displacements for a 30 nm thick membrane at room temperature and 60 °C, respectively. Further increasing the electric field above the coercive value changes the fold curvature, hence augmenting the effective piezoresponse. Finally, it is found that the membranes fold with increasing temperature followed by complete immobility of the membrane above the Curie temperature, allowing us to model the ferroelectric domain origin of the effect.},
doi = {10.1021/acsnano.0c01615},
journal = {ACS Nano},
number = 4,
volume = 14,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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