The origin of incipient ferroelectricity in lead telluride
Abstract
The interactions between electrons and lattice vibrations are fundamental to materials behavior. In the case of group IV–VI, V and related materials, these interactions are strong, and the materials exist near electronic and structural phase transitions. The prototypical example is PbTe whose incipient ferroelectric behavior has been recently associated with large phonon anharmonicity and thermoelectricity. Here we show that it is primarily electron-phonon coupling involving electron states near the band edges that leads to the ferroelectric instability in PbTe. Using a combination of nonequilibrium lattice dynamics measurements and first principles calculations, we find that photoexcitation reduces the Peierls-like electronic instability and reinforces the paraelectric state. This weakens the long-range forces along the cubic direction tied to resonant bonding and low lattice thermal conductivity. Lastly, our results demonstrate how free-electron-laser-based ultrafast X-ray scattering can be utilized to shed light on the microscopic mechanisms that determine materials properties.
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- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Tyndall National Institute, Cork (Ireland); Univ. College Cork, Cork (Ireland)
- Tyndall National Institute, Cork (Ireland); Univ. College Cork, Cork (Ireland); Imperial College London, London (United Kingdom)
- Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo (Japan); The Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo (Japan)
- Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Imperial College London, London (United Kingdom)
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- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1326211
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1329161
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515; AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; electronic properties and materials; ferroelectrics and multiferroics; phase transitions and critical phenomena
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Jiang, M. P., Trigo, M., Savić, I., Fahy, S., Murray, É. D., Bray, C., Clark, J., Henighan, T., Kozina, M., Chollet, M., Glownia, J. M., Hoffmann, M. C., Zhu, D., Delaire, O., May, A. F., Sales, B. C., Lindenberg, A. M., Zalden, P., Sato, T., Merlin, R., and Reis, D. A. The origin of incipient ferroelectricity in lead telluride. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms12291.
Jiang, M. P., Trigo, M., Savić, I., Fahy, S., Murray, É. D., Bray, C., Clark, J., Henighan, T., Kozina, M., Chollet, M., Glownia, J. M., Hoffmann, M. C., Zhu, D., Delaire, O., May, A. F., Sales, B. C., Lindenberg, A. M., Zalden, P., Sato, T., Merlin, R., & Reis, D. A. The origin of incipient ferroelectricity in lead telluride. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12291
Jiang, M. P., Trigo, M., Savić, I., Fahy, S., Murray, É. D., Bray, C., Clark, J., Henighan, T., Kozina, M., Chollet, M., Glownia, J. M., Hoffmann, M. C., Zhu, D., Delaire, O., May, A. F., Sales, B. C., Lindenberg, A. M., Zalden, P., Sato, T., Merlin, R., and Reis, D. A. Fri .
"The origin of incipient ferroelectricity in lead telluride". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12291. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1326211.
@article{osti_1326211,
title = {The origin of incipient ferroelectricity in lead telluride},
author = {Jiang, M. P. and Trigo, M. and Savić, I. and Fahy, S. and Murray, É. D. and Bray, C. and Clark, J. and Henighan, T. and Kozina, M. and Chollet, M. and Glownia, J. M. and Hoffmann, M. C. and Zhu, D. and Delaire, O. and May, A. F. and Sales, B. C. and Lindenberg, A. M. and Zalden, P. and Sato, T. and Merlin, R. and Reis, D. A.},
abstractNote = {The interactions between electrons and lattice vibrations are fundamental to materials behavior. In the case of group IV–VI, V and related materials, these interactions are strong, and the materials exist near electronic and structural phase transitions. The prototypical example is PbTe whose incipient ferroelectric behavior has been recently associated with large phonon anharmonicity and thermoelectricity. Here we show that it is primarily electron-phonon coupling involving electron states near the band edges that leads to the ferroelectric instability in PbTe. Using a combination of nonequilibrium lattice dynamics measurements and first principles calculations, we find that photoexcitation reduces the Peierls-like electronic instability and reinforces the paraelectric state. This weakens the long-range forces along the cubic direction tied to resonant bonding and low lattice thermal conductivity. Lastly, our results demonstrate how free-electron-laser-based ultrafast X-ray scattering can be utilized to shed light on the microscopic mechanisms that determine materials properties.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms12291},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = ,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jul 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Jul 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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