Influence of interfacial coherency on ferroelectric switching of superlattice BaTiO3/SrTiO3

Wu, Pingping; Ma, Xingqiao; Li, Yulan; Eom, Chang -Beom; Schlom, Darrell G.; Gopalan, Venkatraman; Chen, Long -Qing

doi:10.1063/1.4931129

Title: Influence of interfacial coherency on ferroelectric switching of superlattice BaTiO₃/SrTiO₃

Abstract

Switching behavior of (BaTiO₃)₈/(SrTiO₃)₄ heterostructure superlattice grown on SrTiO₃ substrate was studied by employing the phase field method. To investigate the constraint effect of the substrate on switching, three types of superlattice/substrate interface mechanical relaxation conditions were considered, i.e. the fully ommensurate, partially relaxed and fully relaxed. Our simulation results demonstrated that the hysteresis loops under the three types of constraints were very different. The interfacial coherency affects dramatically the coercivity and remanence of the superlattice films. The mechanism of the hysteresis loop varying with interfacial coherency was analyzed by the ferroelectric domain configuration and its evolution during the switching process. Finally, the hysteresis loop of fully relaxed superlattice shows application potential on ferroelectric energy storage materials.

Authors:

Wu, Pingping ^[1]; Ma, Xingqiao ^[2]; Li, Yulan ^[3]; Eom, Chang -Beom ^[4]; Schlom, Darrell G. ^[5]; Gopalan, Venkatraman ^[6]; Chen, Long -Qing ^[6]

Univ. of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing (China); The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
Univ. of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing (China)
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Univ. of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI (United States)
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States); Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, NY (United States)
The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)

Publication Date:: Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 EDT 2015

Research Org.:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1274891

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-106498
Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Applied Physics Letters

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 107; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; superlattice; Switching; Constraint effect; Phase field method

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                    Wu, Pingping, Ma, Xingqiao, Li, Yulan, Eom, Chang -Beom, Schlom, Darrell G., Gopalan, Venkatraman, and Chen, Long -Qing. Influence of interfacial coherency on ferroelectric switching of superlattice BaTiO3/SrTiO3.  United States: N. p., 2015. 
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                    Wu, Pingping, Ma, Xingqiao, Li, Yulan, Eom, Chang -Beom, Schlom, Darrell G., Gopalan, Venkatraman, & Chen, Long -Qing. Influence of interfacial coherency on ferroelectric switching of superlattice BaTiO3/SrTiO3.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4931129

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                    Wu, Pingping, Ma, Xingqiao, Li, Yulan, Eom, Chang -Beom, Schlom, Darrell G., Gopalan, Venkatraman, and Chen, Long -Qing. Mon .  
"Influence of interfacial coherency on ferroelectric switching of superlattice BaTiO3/SrTiO3".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4931129.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1274891.

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@article{osti_1274891,

  title        = {Influence of interfacial coherency on ferroelectric switching of superlattice BaTiO3/SrTiO3},

  author       = {Wu, Pingping and Ma, Xingqiao and Li, Yulan and Eom, Chang -Beom and Schlom, Darrell G. and Gopalan, Venkatraman and Chen, Long -Qing},

  abstractNote = {Switching behavior of (BaTiO3)8/(SrTiO3)4 heterostructure superlattice grown on SrTiO3 substrate was studied by employing the phase field method. To investigate the constraint effect of the substrate on switching, three types of superlattice/substrate interface mechanical relaxation conditions were considered, i.e. the fully ommensurate, partially relaxed and fully relaxed. Our simulation results demonstrated that the hysteresis loops under the three types of constraints were very different. The interfacial coherency affects dramatically the coercivity and remanence of the superlattice films. The mechanism of the hysteresis loop varying with interfacial coherency was analyzed by the ferroelectric domain configuration and its evolution during the switching process. Finally, the hysteresis loop of fully relaxed superlattice shows application potential on ferroelectric energy storage materials.},

  doi          = {10.1063/1.4931129},

  journal      = {Applied Physics Letters},

  number       = 12,

  volume       = 107,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 EDT 2015},

  month        = {Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 EDT 2015}

}

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Phase Transitions, Stability, and Dielectric Response of the Domain Structure in Ferroelectric-Ferroelastic Thin Films text, January 2001

Depletion layer-induced size effects in ferroelectric thin films: A Ginzburg-Landau model study text, January 2013

Domain enhanced interlayer coupling in ferroelectric/paraelectric superlattices text, January 2004

Large Polarization and Susceptibilities in Artificial Morphotropic Phase Boundary PbZr 1− x Ti x O 3 Superlattices journal, January 2020

A thermodynamic potential, energy storage performances, and electrocaloric effects of Ba 1- x Sr x TiO 3 single crystals journal, March 2018

Sr-induced dipole scatter in Ba x Sr 1 − x TiO 3 : Insights from a transferable-bond valence-based interatomic potential journal, November 2019

Pinning of a ferroelectric Bloch wall at a paraelectric layer journal, January 2018

Pinning of a ferroelectric Bloch wall at a paraelectric layer journal, January 2018

Title: Influence of interfacial coherency on ferroelectric switching of superlattice BaTiO₃/SrTiO₃

Prediction of ferroelectricity in BaTiO3∕SrTiO3 superlattices with domains
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Modeling of ferroelectric domains in thin films and superlattices
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The effects of strain relaxation on the dielectric properties of epitaxial ferroelectric Pb(Zr _0.2 Ti _0.8 )TiO ₃ thin films
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A Thin Film Approach to Engineering Functionality into Oxides
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Smearing of Phase Transition due to a Surface Effect or a Bulk Inhomogeneity in Ferroelectric Nanostructures
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Formation of artificial BaTiO ₃ /SrTiO ₃ superlattices using pulsed laser deposition and their dielectric properties
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Relaxor-ferroelectric superlattices: high energy density capacitors
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Phase diagrams of $Ba Ti O_{3} ∕ Sr Ti O_{3}$ superlattices from first principles
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Landau Expansion for Ferroelectrics: Which Variable to Use?
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Probing Nanoscale Ferroelectricity by Ultraviolet Raman Spectroscopy
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Mixed Bloch-Néel-Ising character of $180 °$ ferroelectric domain walls
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Theory of polarization enhancement in epitaxial BaTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattices
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Strain enhanced ferroelectric properties of multiferroic BiFeO3/SrTiO3 superlattice structure prepared by radio frequency magnetron sputtering
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Tailoring the Properties of Artificially Layered Ferroelectric Superlattices
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Phase Transitions, Stability, and Dielectric Response of the Domain Structure in Ferroelectric-Ferroelastic Thin Films
journal, April 2001

Phase transitions and domain structures in strained pseudocubic (100) $Sr Ti O_{3}$ thin films
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Nanocomposites of Ferroelectric Polymers with TiO ₂ Nanoparticles Exhibiting Significantly Enhanced Electrical Energy Density
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Phase-field simulation of domain structure for PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattices
journal, September 2009

Oxide nano-engineering using MBE
journal, December 2001

Large nonlinear dielectric properties of artificial BaTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattices
journal, May 2002

Strong polarization enhancement in asymmetric three-component ferroelectric superlattices
journal, April 2005

Periodicity dependence of the ferroelectric properties in BiFeO3∕SrTiO3 multiferroic superlattices
journal, November 2007

Domain structures and switching properties in ferroelectric nanocomposites
journal, September 2013

Size effects in ferroelectric thin films: 180° domains and polarization relaxation
journal, November 2007

The influence of 180° ferroelectric domain wall width on the threshold field for wall motion
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Domain-Enhanced Interlayer Coupling in Ferroelectric/Paraelectric Superlattices
journal, February 2005

A Dielectric Polymer with High Electric Energy Density and Fast Discharge Speed
journal, July 2006

Phase transitions and polarizations in epitaxial BaTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattices studied by second-harmonic generation
journal, January 2003

Orthorhombic strontium titanate in BaTiO ₃ –SrTiO ₃ superlattices
journal, May 2003

Effect of periodicity and composition in artificial BaTiO $_{3}$ /(Ba,Sr)TiO $_{3}$ superlattices
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Enhancement of remanent polarization in epitaxial BaTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattices with “asymmetric” structure
journal, February 2002

First-principles study of symmetry lowering and polarization in $Ba Ti O_{3} ∕ Sr Ti O_{3}$ superlattices with in-plane expansion
journal, March 2005

Dielectric enhancement and Maxwell–Wagner effects in ferroelectric superlattice structures
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Universal Properties of Ferroelectric Domains
journal, April 2009

Interfacial coherency and ferroelectricity of BaTiO3∕SrTiO3 superlattice films
journal, December 2007

Ferroelectric phase transitions in three-component short-period superlattices studied by ultraviolet Raman spectroscopy
journal, March 2009

Strain relaxation and critical temperature in epitaxial ferroelectric Pb(Zr0.20Ti0.80)O3 thin films
journal, May 2007

The Physics of Ferroelectric Memories
journal, July 1998

Depletion-layer-induced size effects in ferroelectric thin films: A Ginzburg-Landau model study
journal, September 2012

Abrupt PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattices grown by reactive molecular beam epitaxy
journal, May 1999

Polarization of strained BaTiO3∕SrTiO3 artificial superlattice: First-principles study
journal, August 2005

Dipole spring ferroelectrics in superlattice SrTiO ₃ /BaTiO ₃ thin films exhibiting constricted hysteresis loops
journal, February 2012

Thermodynamic modeling of critical properties of ferroelectric superlattices in nano-scale
journal, May 2009

Strain Tuning of Ferroelectric Thin Films
journal, August 2007

Strong polarization enhancement in asymmetric three-component ferroelectric superlattices
journal, January 2005

Phase Transitions, Stability, and Dielectric Response of the Domain Structure in Ferroelectric-Ferroelastic Thin Films
text, January 2001

Depletion layer-induced size effects in ferroelectric thin films: A Ginzburg-Landau model study
text, January 2013

Domain enhanced interlayer coupling in ferroelectric/paraelectric superlattices
text, January 2004

Large Polarization and Susceptibilities in Artificial Morphotropic Phase Boundary PbZr ₁₋ _x Ti _x O ₃ Superlattices
journal, January 2020

A thermodynamic potential, energy storage performances, and electrocaloric effects of Ba _1- _x Sr _x TiO ₃ single crystals
journal, March 2018

Sr-induced dipole scatter in ${Ba}_{x} {Sr}_{1 - x} {TiO}_{3}$ : Insights from a transferable-bond valence-based interatomic potential
journal, November 2019

Pinning of a ferroelectric Bloch wall at a paraelectric layer
journal, January 2018

Pinning of a ferroelectric Bloch wall at a paraelectric layer
journal, January 2018