Large enhancement of ferroelectric properties of perovskite oxides via nitrogen incorporation
Perovskite oxides have a wide variety of physical properties that make them promising candidates for versatile technological applications including nonvolatile memory and logic devices. Chemical tuning of those properties has been achieved, to the greatest extent, by cation-site substitution, while anion substitution is much less explored due to the difficulty in synthesizing high-quality, mixed-anion compounds. Here, nitrogen-incorporated BaTiO3 thin films have been synthesized by reactive pulsed-laser deposition in a nitrogen growth atmosphere. The enhanced hybridization between titanium and nitrogen induces a large ferroelectric polarization of 70 μC/cm2 and high Curie temperature of ~1213 K, which are ~2.8 times larger and ~810 K higher than in bulk BaTiO3, respectively. These results suggest great potential for anion-substituted perovskite oxides in producing emergent functionalities and device applications.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22), Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (SC-22.2); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; SC0012375
- OSTI ID:
- 2570271
- Journal Information:
- Science Advances, Journal Name: Science Advances Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 11
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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