Deaging and Asymmetric Energy Landscapes in Electrically Biased Ferroelectrics
- Ecole
In ferroic materials, the dielectric, piezoelectric, magnetic, and elastic coefficients are significantly affected by the motion of domain walls. This motion can be described as the propagation of a wall across various types and strengths of pinning centers that collectively constitute a force profile or energetic landscape. Biased domain structures and asymmetric energy landscapes can be created through application of high fields (such as during electrical poling), and the material behavior in such states is often highly asymmetric. In some cases, this behavior can be considered as the electric analogue to the Bauschinger effect. The present Letter uses time-resolved, high-energy x-ray Bragg scattering to probe this asymmetry and the associated deaging effect in the ferroelectric morphotropic phase boundary composition 0.36BiScO{sub 3}-0.64PbTiO{sub 3}.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DODFOREIGN
- OSTI ID:
- 1048560
- Journal Information:
- Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 108, Issue (177601) ; 04, 2012; ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- ENGLISH
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