Capturing ultrafast photoinduced local structural distortion of BiFeO3

Wen, Haidan; Sassi, Michel; Luo, Zhenlin; Adamo, Carolina; Schlom, Darrell G.; Rosso, Kevin M.; Zhang, Xiaoyi

doi:10.1038/srep15098

Title: Capturing ultrafast photoinduced local structural distortion of BiFeO₃

Journal Article · Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep15098· OSTI ID:1237930

Wen, Haidan ^[1]; Sassi, Michel ^[2]; Luo, Zhenlin ^[3]; Adamo, Carolina ^[4]; Schlom, Darrell G. ^[5]; Rosso, Kevin M. ^[2]; Zhang, Xiaoyi ^[1]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States); Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States). Kavli Inst. for Nanoscale Science

The interaction of light with materials is an intensively studied research forefront, in which the coupling of radiation energy to selective degrees of freedom offers contact-free tuning of functionalities on ultrafast time scales. Capturing the fundamental processes and understanding the mechanism of photoinduced structural rearrangement are essential to applications such as photo-active actuators and efficient photovoltaic devices. Using ultrafast x-ray absorption spectroscopy aided by density functional theory calculations, we reveal the local structural arrangement around the transition metal atom in a unit cell of the photoferroelectric archetype BiFeO₃ film. The out-of-plane elongation of the unit cell is accompanied by the in-plane shrinkage with minimal change of interaxial lattice angles upon photoexcitation. This anisotropic elastic deformation of the unit cell is driven by localized electric field as a result of photoinduced charge separation, in contrast to a global lattice constant increase and lattice angle variations as a result of heating. The finding of a photoinduced elastic unit cell deformation elucidates a microscopic picture of photocarrier-mediated non-equilibrium processes in polar materials.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1237930

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 5; ISSN 2045-2322

Publisher:: Nature Publishing Group

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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