Giant optical enhancement of strain gradient in ferroelectric BiFeO3 thin films and its physical origin
Abstract
Through mapping of the spatiotemporal strain profile in ferroelectric BiFeO3 epitaxial thin films, we report an optically initiated dynamic enhancement of the strain gradient of 105–106 m-1 that lasts up to a few ns depending on the film thickness. Correlating with transient optical absorption measurements, the enhancement of the strain gradient is attributed to a piezoelectric effect driven by a transient screening field mediated by excitons. In conclusion, these findings not only demonstrate a new possible way of controlling the flexoelectric effect, but also reveal the important role of exciton dynamics in photostriction and photovoltaic effects in ferroelectrics.
- Authors:
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- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States)
- Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
- Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States); Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States). Kavli Inst. for Nanoscale Science
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1237489
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; FG02-10ER46147
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Information storage; Solar cells; Ferroelectrics and multiferroics
Citation Formats
Li, Yuelin, Adamo, C., Chen, Pice, Evans, Paul G., Nakhmanson, Serge M., Parker, William, Rowland, Clare E., Schaller, Richard D., Schlom, Darrell G., Walko, Donald A., Wen, Haidan, and Zhang, Qingteng. Giant optical enhancement of strain gradient in ferroelectric BiFeO3 thin films and its physical origin. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1038/srep16650.
Li, Yuelin, Adamo, C., Chen, Pice, Evans, Paul G., Nakhmanson, Serge M., Parker, William, Rowland, Clare E., Schaller, Richard D., Schlom, Darrell G., Walko, Donald A., Wen, Haidan, & Zhang, Qingteng. Giant optical enhancement of strain gradient in ferroelectric BiFeO3 thin films and its physical origin. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep16650
Li, Yuelin, Adamo, C., Chen, Pice, Evans, Paul G., Nakhmanson, Serge M., Parker, William, Rowland, Clare E., Schaller, Richard D., Schlom, Darrell G., Walko, Donald A., Wen, Haidan, and Zhang, Qingteng. Fri .
"Giant optical enhancement of strain gradient in ferroelectric BiFeO3 thin films and its physical origin". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep16650. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1237489.
@article{osti_1237489,
title = {Giant optical enhancement of strain gradient in ferroelectric BiFeO3 thin films and its physical origin},
author = {Li, Yuelin and Adamo, C. and Chen, Pice and Evans, Paul G. and Nakhmanson, Serge M. and Parker, William and Rowland, Clare E. and Schaller, Richard D. and Schlom, Darrell G. and Walko, Donald A. and Wen, Haidan and Zhang, Qingteng},
abstractNote = {Through mapping of the spatiotemporal strain profile in ferroelectric BiFeO3 epitaxial thin films, we report an optically initiated dynamic enhancement of the strain gradient of 105–106 m-1 that lasts up to a few ns depending on the film thickness. Correlating with transient optical absorption measurements, the enhancement of the strain gradient is attributed to a piezoelectric effect driven by a transient screening field mediated by excitons. In conclusion, these findings not only demonstrate a new possible way of controlling the flexoelectric effect, but also reveal the important role of exciton dynamics in photostriction and photovoltaic effects in ferroelectrics.},
doi = {10.1038/srep16650},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = ,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}
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