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| author | Jeong, Chaehwa Lee, Juhyeok Jo, Hyesung Oh, Jaewhan Baik, Hionsuck Go, Kyoung-June Son, Junwoo Choi, Si-Young Prosandeev, Sergey Bellaiche, Laurent Yang, Yongsoo |
| author_facet | Jeong, Chaehwa Lee, Juhyeok Jo, Hyesung Oh, Jaewhan Baik, Hionsuck Go, Kyoung-June Son, Junwoo Choi, Si-Young Prosandeev, Sergey Bellaiche, Laurent Yang, Yongsoo |
| contents | In the early 2000s, low dimensional systems were predicted to have topologically nontrivial polar structures, such as vortices or skyrmions, depending on mechanical or electrical boundary conditions. A few variants of these structures have been experimentally observed in thin film model systems, where they are engineered by balancing electrostatic charge and elastic distortion energies. However, the measurement and classification of topological textures for general ferroelectric nanostructures have remained elusive, as it requires mapping the local polarization at the atomic scale in three dimensions. Here we unveil topological polar structures in ferroelectric BaTiO3 nanoparticles via atomic electron tomography, which enables us to reconstruct the full three-dimensional arrangement of cation atoms at an individual atom level. Our three-dimensional polarization maps reveal clear topological orderings, along with evidence of size-dependent topological transitions from a single vortex structure to multiple vortices, consistent with theoretical predictions. The discovery of the predicted topological polar ordering in nanoscale ferroelectrics, independent of epitaxial strain, widens the research perspective and offers potential for practical applications utilizing contact-free switchable toroidal moments. |
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| spellingShingle | Revealing the Three-Dimensional Arrangement of Polar Topology in Nanoparticles Jeong, Chaehwa Lee, Juhyeok Jo, Hyesung Oh, Jaewhan Baik, Hionsuck Go, Kyoung-June Son, Junwoo Choi, Si-Young Prosandeev, Sergey Bellaiche, Laurent Yang, Yongsoo Materials Science In the early 2000s, low dimensional systems were predicted to have topologically nontrivial polar structures, such as vortices or skyrmions, depending on mechanical or electrical boundary conditions. A few variants of these structures have been experimentally observed in thin film model systems, where they are engineered by balancing electrostatic charge and elastic distortion energies. However, the measurement and classification of topological textures for general ferroelectric nanostructures have remained elusive, as it requires mapping the local polarization at the atomic scale in three dimensions. Here we unveil topological polar structures in ferroelectric BaTiO3 nanoparticles via atomic electron tomography, which enables us to reconstruct the full three-dimensional arrangement of cation atoms at an individual atom level. Our three-dimensional polarization maps reveal clear topological orderings, along with evidence of size-dependent topological transitions from a single vortex structure to multiple vortices, consistent with theoretical predictions. The discovery of the predicted topological polar ordering in nanoscale ferroelectrics, independent of epitaxial strain, widens the research perspective and offers potential for practical applications utilizing contact-free switchable toroidal moments. |
| title | Revealing the Three-Dimensional Arrangement of Polar Topology in Nanoparticles |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04188 |