Towards the reproducible fabrication of conductive ferroelectric domain walls into lithium niobate bulk single crystals
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| author | Ratzenberger, Julius Kiseleva, Iuliia Koppitz, Boris Beyreuther, Elke Zahn, Manuel Gössel, Joshua Hegarty, Peter A. Amber, Zeeshan H. Rüsing, Michael Eng, Lukas M. |
| author_facet | Ratzenberger, Julius Kiseleva, Iuliia Koppitz, Boris Beyreuther, Elke Zahn, Manuel Gössel, Joshua Hegarty, Peter A. Amber, Zeeshan H. Rüsing, Michael Eng, Lukas M. |
| contents | Ferroelectric domain walls (DWs) are promising structures for assembling future nano-electronic circuit elements on a larger scale, since reporting domain wall currents of up to 1 mA per single DW. One key requirement hereto is their reproducible manufacturing by gaining preparative control over domain size and domain wall conductivity (DWC). To date, most works on DWC have focused on exploring the fundamental electrical properties of individual DWs within single shot experiments, with emphasis on quantifying the origins for DWC. Very few reports exist when it comes to compare the DWC properties between two separate DWs, and literally nothing exists where issues of reproducibility in DWC devices have been addressed. To fill this gap while facing the challenge of finding guidelines achieving predictable DWC performance, we report on a procedure that allows us to reproducibly prepare single hexagonal domains of a predefined diameter into uniaxial ferroelectric (FE) lithium niobate (LN) single crystals of 200 and 300 micrometers thickness, respectively. We show that the domain diameter can be controlled with an error of a few percent. As-grown DWs are then subjected to a standard procedure of current-controlled high-voltage DWC enhancement, repetitively reaching a DWC increase of 6 orders of magnitude. While all resulting DWs show significantly enhanced DWC values, subtle features in their individual current-voltage (I-V) characteristics hint towards different 3D shapes into the bulk, with variations probably reflecting local heterogeneities by defects, DW pinning, and surface-near DW inclination, which seem to have a larger impact than expected. |
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| spellingShingle | Towards the reproducible fabrication of conductive ferroelectric domain walls into lithium niobate bulk single crystals Ratzenberger, Julius Kiseleva, Iuliia Koppitz, Boris Beyreuther, Elke Zahn, Manuel Gössel, Joshua Hegarty, Peter A. Amber, Zeeshan H. Rüsing, Michael Eng, Lukas M. Materials Science Applied Physics Ferroelectric domain walls (DWs) are promising structures for assembling future nano-electronic circuit elements on a larger scale, since reporting domain wall currents of up to 1 mA per single DW. One key requirement hereto is their reproducible manufacturing by gaining preparative control over domain size and domain wall conductivity (DWC). To date, most works on DWC have focused on exploring the fundamental electrical properties of individual DWs within single shot experiments, with emphasis on quantifying the origins for DWC. Very few reports exist when it comes to compare the DWC properties between two separate DWs, and literally nothing exists where issues of reproducibility in DWC devices have been addressed. To fill this gap while facing the challenge of finding guidelines achieving predictable DWC performance, we report on a procedure that allows us to reproducibly prepare single hexagonal domains of a predefined diameter into uniaxial ferroelectric (FE) lithium niobate (LN) single crystals of 200 and 300 micrometers thickness, respectively. We show that the domain diameter can be controlled with an error of a few percent. As-grown DWs are then subjected to a standard procedure of current-controlled high-voltage DWC enhancement, repetitively reaching a DWC increase of 6 orders of magnitude. While all resulting DWs show significantly enhanced DWC values, subtle features in their individual current-voltage (I-V) characteristics hint towards different 3D shapes into the bulk, with variations probably reflecting local heterogeneities by defects, DW pinning, and surface-near DW inclination, which seem to have a larger impact than expected. |
| title | Towards the reproducible fabrication of conductive ferroelectric domain walls into lithium niobate bulk single crystals |
| topic | Materials Science Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08156 |