Impact of symmetry on the ferroelectric properties of CaTiO{sub 3} thin films

Biegalski, Michael D.; Qiao, Liang; Gu, Yijia; Chen, Long-Qing; Mehta, Apurva; He, Qian; Borisevich, Albina; Takamura, Yayoi

doi:10.1063/1.4918805

Title: Impact of symmetry on the ferroelectric properties of CaTiO{sub 3} thin films

Journal Article · Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4918805· OSTI ID:22398932

Biegalski, Michael D.; Qiao, Liang ^[1]; Gu, Yijia; Chen, Long-Qing ^[2]; Mehta, Apurva ^[3]; He, Qian; Borisevich, Albina ^[4]; Takamura, Yayoi ^[5]

Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 (United States)
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16801 (United States)
Stanford Synchrotron Lightsource SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025 (United States)
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 (United States)
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616 (United States)

Epitaxial strain is a powerful tool to induce functional properties such as ferroelectricity in thin films of materials that do not possess ferroelectricity in bulk form. In this work, a ferroelectric state was stabilized in thin films of the incipient ferroelectric, CaTiO{sub 3}, through the careful control of the biaxial strain state and TiO{sub 6} octahedral rotations. Detailed structural characterization was carried out by synchrotron x-ray diffraction and scanning transmission electron microscopy. CaTiO{sub 3} films grown on La{sub 0.18}Sr{sub 0.82}Al{sub 0.59}Ta{sub 0.41}O{sub 3} (LSAT) and NdGaO{sub 3} (NGO) substrates experienced a 1.1% biaxial strain state but differed in their octahedral tilt structures. A suppression of the out-of-plane rotations of the TiO{sub 6} octahedral in films grown on LSAT substrates resulted in a robust ferroelectric I4 mm phase with remnant polarization ∼5 μC/cm{sup 2} at 10 K and T{sub c} near 140 K. In contrast, films grown on NGO substrates with significant octahedral tilting showed reduced polarization and T{sub c}. These results highlight the key role played by symmetry in controlling the ferroelectric properties of perovskite oxide thin films.

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Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 106, Issue 16; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-6951

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