Mapping the complex evolution of ferroelastic/ferroelectric domain patterns in epitaxially strained PbTiO3 heterostructures

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Autori principali: Lichtensteiger, Céline, Hadjimichael, Marios, Zatterin, Edoardo, Su, Chia-Ping, Gaponenko, Iaroslav, Tovaglieri, Ludovica, Paruch, Patrycja, Gloter, Alexandre, Triscone, Jean-Marc
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author Lichtensteiger, Céline
Hadjimichael, Marios
Zatterin, Edoardo
Su, Chia-Ping
Gaponenko, Iaroslav
Tovaglieri, Ludovica
Paruch, Patrycja
Gloter, Alexandre
Triscone, Jean-Marc
author_facet Lichtensteiger, Céline
Hadjimichael, Marios
Zatterin, Edoardo
Su, Chia-Ping
Gaponenko, Iaroslav
Tovaglieri, Ludovica
Paruch, Patrycja
Gloter, Alexandre
Triscone, Jean-Marc
contents We study the complex ferroelastic/ferroelectric domain structure in the prototypical ferroelectric PbTiO3 epitaxially strained on (110)o-oriented DyScO3 substrates, using a combination of atomic force microscopy, laboratory and synchrotron x-ray diffraction and high resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy. We observe that the anisotropic strain imposed by the orthorhombic substrate creates a large asymmetry in the domain configuration, with domain walls macroscopically aligned along one of the two in-plane directions. We show that the periodicity as a function of film thickness deviates from the Kittel law. As the ferroelectric film thickness increases, we find that the domain configuration evolves from flux-closure to a/c-phase, with a larger scale arrangement of domains into superdomains.
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spellingShingle Mapping the complex evolution of ferroelastic/ferroelectric domain patterns in epitaxially strained PbTiO3 heterostructures
Lichtensteiger, Céline
Hadjimichael, Marios
Zatterin, Edoardo
Su, Chia-Ping
Gaponenko, Iaroslav
Tovaglieri, Ludovica
Paruch, Patrycja
Gloter, Alexandre
Triscone, Jean-Marc
Materials Science
We study the complex ferroelastic/ferroelectric domain structure in the prototypical ferroelectric PbTiO3 epitaxially strained on (110)o-oriented DyScO3 substrates, using a combination of atomic force microscopy, laboratory and synchrotron x-ray diffraction and high resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy. We observe that the anisotropic strain imposed by the orthorhombic substrate creates a large asymmetry in the domain configuration, with domain walls macroscopically aligned along one of the two in-plane directions. We show that the periodicity as a function of film thickness deviates from the Kittel law. As the ferroelectric film thickness increases, we find that the domain configuration evolves from flux-closure to a/c-phase, with a larger scale arrangement of domains into superdomains.
title Mapping the complex evolution of ferroelastic/ferroelectric domain patterns in epitaxially strained PbTiO3 heterostructures
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06948