Facilitation of Ferroelectric Switching via Mechanical Manipulation of Hierarchical Nanoscale Domain Structures

Zibin Chen; Liang Hong; Feifei Wang; Simon P. Ringer; Long Qing Chen; Haosu Luo; Xiaozhou Liao

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.017601

Facilitation of Ferroelectric Switching via Mechanical Manipulation of Hierarchical Nanoscale Domain Structures

Zibin Chen
, Liang Hong
, Feifei Wang
, Simon P. Ringer
, Long Qing Chen
, Haosu Luo
, Xiaozhou Liao (Corresponding Author)

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Abstract

Heterogeneous ferroelastic transition that produces hierarchical 90° tetragonal nanodomains via mechanical loading and its effect on facilitating ferroelectric domain switching in relaxor-based ferroelectrics were explored. Combining in situ electron microscopy characterization and phase-field modeling, we reveal the nature of the transition process and discover that the transition lowers by 40% the electrical loading threshold needed for ferroelectric domain switching. Our results advance the fundamental understanding of ferroelectric domain switching behavior.

Original language	English
Article number	017601
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	118
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.017601
Publication status	Published - 6 Jan 2017
Externally published	Yes

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