Large polarization gradients and temperature-stable responses in compositionally-graded ferroelectrics

Damodaran, Anoop R.; Pandya, Shishir; Qi, Yubo; Hsu, Shang-Lin; Liu, Shi; Nelson, Christopher; Dasgupta, Arvind; Ercius, Peter; Ophus, Colin; Dedon, Liv R.; Agar, Josh C.; Lu, Hongling; Zhang, Jialan; Minor, Andrew M.; Rappe, Andrew M.; Martin, Lane W.

doi:10.1038/ncomms14961

Title: Large polarization gradients and temperature-stable responses in compositionally-graded ferroelectrics

Journal Article · Wed May 10 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14961· OSTI ID:1379845

^[1]; Pandya, Shishir ^[1]; Qi, Yubo ^[2]; Hsu, Shang-Lin ^[1];

^[3]; Nelson, Christopher ^[4]; Dasgupta, Arvind ^[1];

^[5]; Ophus, Colin ^[5]; Dedon, Liv R. ^[1]; Agar, Josh C. ^[1]; Lu, Hongling ^[1]; Zhang, Jialan ^[6]; Minor, Andrew M. ^[4];

^[2];

^[7]

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; Carnegie Inst. for Science, Washington, DC (United States). Geophysical Lab.
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Center for Electron Microscopy
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Center for Electron Microscopy
Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Materials Science Division

A range of modern applications require large and tunable dielectric, piezoelectric or pyroelectric response of ferroelectrics. Such effects are intimately connected to the nature of polarization and how it responds to externally applied stimuli. Ferroelectric susceptibilities are, in general, strongly temperature dependent, diminishing rapidly as one transitions away from the ferroelectric phase transition (T_C). In turn, researchers seek new routes to manipulate polarization to simultaneously enhance susceptibilities and broaden operational temperature ranges. Here, we demonstrate such a capability by creating composition and strain gradients in Ba_1-xSr_xTiO₃ films which result in spatial polarization gradients as large as 35 μC cm^-2 across a 150 nm thick film. These polarization gradients allow for large dielectric permittivity with low loss (ε_r≈775, tan δ<0.05), negligible temperature-dependence (13% deviation over 500 °C) and high-dielectric tunability (greater than 70% across a 300 °C range). The role of space charges in stabilizing polarization gradients is also discussed.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; SC0012375; CMMI-1334241; DMR-1451219; CMMI-1434147; DMR-1608938

OSTI ID:: 1379845

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 8; ISSN 2041-1723

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