Enhanced piezoelectric response at nanoscale vortex structures in ferroelectrics
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| author | Shi, Xiaowen Nazirkar, Nimish Prashant Kashikar, Ravi Karpov, Dmitry Folarin, Shola Barringer, Zachary Williams, Skye Kiefer, Boris Harder, Ross Cha, Wonsuk Yuan, Ruihao Liu, Zhen Xue, Dezhen Lookman, Turab Ponomareva, Inna Fohtung, Edwin |
| author_facet | Shi, Xiaowen Nazirkar, Nimish Prashant Kashikar, Ravi Karpov, Dmitry Folarin, Shola Barringer, Zachary Williams, Skye Kiefer, Boris Harder, Ross Cha, Wonsuk Yuan, Ruihao Liu, Zhen Xue, Dezhen Lookman, Turab Ponomareva, Inna Fohtung, Edwin |
| contents | The piezoelectric response is a measure of the sensitivity of a material's polarization to stress or its strain to an applied field. Using in-operando x-ray Bragg coherent diffraction imaging, we observe that topological vortices are the source of a five-fold enhancement of the piezoelectric response near the vortex core. The vortices form where several low symmetry ferroelectric phases and phase boundaries coalesce. Unlike bulk ferroelectric solid solutions in which a large piezoelectric response is associated with coexisting phases in the proximity of the triple point, the largest responses for pure BaTiO3 at the nanoscale are in spatial regions of extremely small spontaneous polarization at vortex cores. The response decays inversely with polarization away from the vortex, analogous to the behavior in bulk ceramics as the cation compositions are varied away from the triple point. We use first-principles-based molecular dynamics to augment our observations, and our results suggest that nanoscale piezoelectric materials with large piezoelectric response can be designed within a parameter space governed by vortex cores. Our findings have implications for the development of next-generation nanoscale piezoelectric materials. |
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| spellingShingle | Enhanced piezoelectric response at nanoscale vortex structures in ferroelectrics Shi, Xiaowen Nazirkar, Nimish Prashant Kashikar, Ravi Karpov, Dmitry Folarin, Shola Barringer, Zachary Williams, Skye Kiefer, Boris Harder, Ross Cha, Wonsuk Yuan, Ruihao Liu, Zhen Xue, Dezhen Lookman, Turab Ponomareva, Inna Fohtung, Edwin Materials Science The piezoelectric response is a measure of the sensitivity of a material's polarization to stress or its strain to an applied field. Using in-operando x-ray Bragg coherent diffraction imaging, we observe that topological vortices are the source of a five-fold enhancement of the piezoelectric response near the vortex core. The vortices form where several low symmetry ferroelectric phases and phase boundaries coalesce. Unlike bulk ferroelectric solid solutions in which a large piezoelectric response is associated with coexisting phases in the proximity of the triple point, the largest responses for pure BaTiO3 at the nanoscale are in spatial regions of extremely small spontaneous polarization at vortex cores. The response decays inversely with polarization away from the vortex, analogous to the behavior in bulk ceramics as the cation compositions are varied away from the triple point. We use first-principles-based molecular dynamics to augment our observations, and our results suggest that nanoscale piezoelectric materials with large piezoelectric response can be designed within a parameter space governed by vortex cores. Our findings have implications for the development of next-generation nanoscale piezoelectric materials. |
| title | Enhanced piezoelectric response at nanoscale vortex structures in ferroelectrics |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13096 |