Electroelastic fields in artificially created vortex cores in epitaxial BiFeO3 thin films

Winchester, Ben; Wisinger, Nina Balke; Cheng, X. X.; Morozovska, A. N.; Kalinin, Sergei; Chen, L. Q.

doi:10.1063/1.4927750

Title: Electroelastic fields in artificially created vortex cores in epitaxial BiFeO₃ thin films

Journal Article · Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4927750· OSTI ID:1265700

Winchester, Ben ^[1]; Wisinger, Nina Balke ^[2]; Cheng, X. X. ^[1]; Morozovska, A. N. ^[3]; Kalinin, Sergei ^[2]; Chen, L. Q. ^[1]

Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Science (CNMS)
NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv (Ukraine). Inst. of Problems for Material Sciences

Here we employ phase-field modeling to explore the elastic properties of artificially created 1-D domain walls in (001)_p-oriented BiFeO₃ thin films, composed of a junction of the four polarization variants, all with the same out-of-plane polarization. It was found that these junctions exhibit peculiarly high electroelastic fields induced by the neighboring ferroelastic/ferroelectric domains. The vortex core exhibits a volume expansion, while the anti-vortex core is more compressive. We also discuss possible ways to control the electroelastic field, such as varying material constant and applying transverse electric field.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; FG02-07ER46417

OSTI ID:: 1265700

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1229566

Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 107, Issue 5; ISSN 0003-6951

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