Ferroelectric Domain Walls

Author : Jill Guyonnet
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319057507

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Ferroelectric Domain Walls by Jill Guyonnet Pdf

Using the nano metric resolution of atomic force microscopy techniques, this work explores the rich fundamental physics and novel functionalities of domain walls in ferroelectric materials, the nano scale interfaces separating regions of differently oriented spontaneous polarization. Due to the local symmetry-breaking caused by the change in polarization, domain walls are found to possess an unexpected lateral piezoelectric response, even when this is symmetry-forbidden in the parent material. This has interesting potential applications in electromechanical devices based on ferroelectric domain patterning. Moreover, electrical conduction is shown to arise at domain walls in otherwise insulating lead zirconate titanate, the first such observation outside of multiferroic bismuth ferrite, due to the tendency of the walls to localize defects. The role of defects is then explored in the theoretical framework of disordered elastic interfaces possessing a characteristic roughness scaling and complex dynamic response. It is shown that the heterogeneous disorder landscape in ferroelectric thin films leads to a breakdown of the usual self-affine roughness, possibly related to strong pinning at individual defects. Finally, the roles of varying environmental conditions and defect densities in domain switching are explored and shown to be adequately modelled as a competition between screening effects and pinning.

Author : Jill Guyonnet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Atomic force microscopy
ISBN : 3319057510

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Ferroelectric Domain Walls by Jill Guyonnet Pdf

Author : Dennis Meier,Jan Seidel,Marty Gregg,Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192607416

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Domain Walls by Dennis Meier,Jan Seidel,Marty Gregg,Ramamoorthy Ramesh Pdf

Technological evolution and revolution are both driven by the discovery of new functionalities, new materials and the design of yet smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient components. Progress is being made at a breathtaking pace, stimulated by the rapidly growing demand for more powerful and readily available information technology. High-speed internet and data-streaming, home automation, tablets and smartphones are now "necessities" for our everyday lives. Consumer expectations for progressively more data storage and exchange appear to be insatiable. Oxide electronics is a promising and relatively new field that has the potential to trigger major advances in information technology. Oxide interfaces are particularly intriguing. Here, low local symmetry combined with an increased susceptibility to external fields leads to unusual physical properties distinct from those of the homogeneous bulk. In this context, ferroic domain walls have attracted recent attention as a completely new type of oxide interface. In addition to their functional properties, such walls are spatially mobile and can be created, moved, and erased on demand. This unique degree of flexibility enables domain walls to take an active role in future devices and hold a great potential as multifunctional 2D systems for nanoelectronics. With domain walls as reconfigurable electronic 2D components, a new generation of adaptive nano-technology and flexible circuitry becomes possible, that can be altered and upgraded throughout the lifetime of the device. Thus, what started out as fundamental research, at the limit of accessibility, is finally maturing into a promising concept for next-generation technology.

Author : Jan Seidel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319253015

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Topological Structures in Ferroic Materials by Jan Seidel Pdf

This book provides a state-of-the art overview of a highly interesting emerging research field in solid state physics/nanomaterials science, topological structures in ferroic materials. Topological structures in ferroic materials have received strongly increasing attention in the last few years. Such structures include domain walls, skyrmions and vortices, which can form in ferroelectric, magnetic, ferroelastic or multiferroic materials. These topological structures can have completely different properties from the bulk material they form in. They also can be controlled by external fields (electrical, magnetic, strain) or currents, which makes them interesting from a fundamental research point of view as well as for potential novel nanomaterials applications. To provide a comprehensive overview, international leading researches in these fields contributed review-like chapters about their own work and the work of other researchers to provide a current view of this highly interesting topic.

Author : Husein Irzaman,Renan Prasta Jenie
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781789840131

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Ferroelectrics and Their Applications by Husein Irzaman,Renan Prasta Jenie Pdf

Ferroelectricity is a symptom of inevitable electrical polarization changes in materials without external electric field interference. Ferroelectricity is a phenomenon exhibited by crystals with a spontaneous polarization and hysteresis effects associated with dielectric changes when an electric field is given. Our fascination with ferroelectricity is in recognition of a beautiful article by Itskovsky, in which he explains the kinetics of a ferroelectric phase transition in a thin ferroelectric layer (film). We have been researching ferroelectric materials since 2001. There are several materials known for their ferroelectric properties. Barium titanate and barium strontium titanate are the most well known. Several others include tantalum oxide, lead zirconium titanate, gallium nitride, lithium tantalate, aluminium, copper oxide, and lithium niobate. There is still a blue ocean of ferroelectric applications yet to be expounded. It is and hopefully always will be a bright future.

Author : Philippe Tückmantel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030723897

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Scanning Probe Studies of Structural and Functional Properties of Ferroelectric Domains and Domain Walls by Philippe Tückmantel Pdf

This thesis explores the fascinating properties of domain walls in ferroelectric materials. Domain walls can be used as model systems to study fundamental aspects of interface physics, such as crackling noise, with implications extending to a broad variety of systems, from material fracture and earthquakes to solar flares and collective decision making. Ferroelectric domain walls also show functional properties absent from the domains themselves, such as enhanced conduction leading to the tantalizing possibility of reconfigurable nanoelectronic circuitry where domain walls are active components. This work discusses the crackling physics of domain walls in thin films of Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3, as well as links between the local conductivity of domain walls and nanoscale geometrical distortions due to defects, and discusses unusual polarization textures with rotational components at crossings of ferroelastic twin domains. The results presented in this thesis have important implications for the experimental study of crackling systems.

Author : Alexander Tagantsev,L. Eric Cross,Jan Fousek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441914224

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Domains in Ferroic Crystals and Thin Films by Alexander Tagantsev,L. Eric Cross,Jan Fousek Pdf

At present, the marketplace for professionals, researchers, and graduate students in solid-state physics and materials science lacks a book that presents a comprehensive discussion of ferroelectrics and related materials in a form that is suitable for experimentalists and engineers. This book proposes to present a wide coverage of domain-related issues concerning these materials. This coverage includes selected theoretical topics (which are covered in the existing literature) in addition to a plethora of experimental data which occupies over half of the book. The book presents experimental findings and theoretical understanding of ferroic (non-magnetic) domains developed during the past 60 years. It addresses the situation by looking specifically at bulk crystals and thin films, with a particular focus on recently-developed microelectronic applications and methods for observations of domains with techniques such as scanning force microscopy, polarized light microscopy, scanning optical microscopy, electron microscopy, and surface decorating techniques. "Domains in Ferroic Crystals and Thin Films" covers a large area of material properties and effects connected with static and dynamic properties of domains, which are extremely relevant to materials referred to as ferroics. In other textbooks on solid state physics, one large group of ferroics is customarily covered: those in which magnetic properties play a dominant role. Numerous books are specifically devoted to magnetic ferroics and cover a wide spectrum of magnetic domain phenomena. In contrast, "Domains in Ferroic Crystals and Thin Films" concentrates on domain-related phenomena in nonmagnetic ferroics. These materials are still inadequately represented in solid state physics textbooks and monographs.

Author : Vladimir M. Fridkin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642813511

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Photoferroelectrics by Vladimir M. Fridkin Pdf

Since Valasek's discovery of the ferroelectric properties of Rochelle salt nearly 60 years ago, ferroelectricity has been regarded as one of the tradi tional branches of dielectric physics. It has had important applications in lattice dynamics, quantum electronics, and nonlinear optics. The study of electron processes in ferroelectrics was begun with VUL's investigations of the ferroelectric properties of barium titanate [1.1]. In trinsic and extrinsic optical absorption, band structure, conductivity and photoconductivity, carrier mobility. and transport mechanisms were examined in this compound, and in other perovskite ferroelectric semiconductors. An important discovery was that of the highly photosensitive photoconducting ferroelectrics of type AVBVICVIII (e.g. SbSI) by MERZ et al. in 1962 [1.2,3]. A large number of ferroelectric semiconductors (some photosensitive, some not) are now known, including broad-band materials (e.g. lithium niobate, lithium tantalate, barium and strontium niobate, and type-A~B~I compounds), BI and narrow-band semiconductors (e.g. type_AIVB compounds). A series of improper ferroelectric semiconductors and photosensitive ferroelastics have been discovered, of which Sb 0 I is an example. s 7 Owing to the uncertainty of their band structure, the difficulty in deter mining the nature of the levels, the complexity of alloying, and their gen erally low mobility values, ferroelectrics are rarely of interest regarded as nonlinear semiconductors. The most fruitful approach has been the study of the influence of electrons (especially nonequilibrium electrons) and electron excitations on phase transitions and ferroelectric properties. A large group of phenomena have recently been discovered and investigated.

Author : Carlos Paz de Araujo,James F. Scott,George W. Taylor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 2884491899

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Ferroelectric Thin Films by Carlos Paz de Araujo,James F. Scott,George W. Taylor Pdf

The impetus for the rapid development of thin film technology, relative to that of bulk materials, is its application to a variety of microelectronic products. Many of the characteristics of thin film ferroelectric materials are utilized in the development of these products - namely, their nonvolatile memory and piezoelectric, pyroelectric, and electro-optic properties. It is befitting, therefore, that the first of a set of three complementary books with the general title Integrated Ferroelectric Devices and Technologies focuses on the synthesis of thin film ferroelectric materials and their basic properties. Because it is a basic introduction to the chemistry, materials science, processing, and physics of the materials from which integrated ferroelectrics are made, newcomers to this field as well as veterans will find this book self-contained and invaluable in acquiring the diverse elements requisite to success in their work in this area. It is directed at electronic engineers and physicists as well as process and system engineers, ceramicists, and chemists involved in the research, design, development, manufacturing, and utilization of thin film ferroelectric materials.

Author : Karin M. Rabe,Charles H. Ahn,Jean-Marc Triscone
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540345916

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Physics of Ferroelectrics by Karin M. Rabe,Charles H. Ahn,Jean-Marc Triscone Pdf

The past two decades have witnessed revolutionary breakthroughs in the understanding of ferroelectric materials, both from the perspective of theory and experiment. This book addresses the paradigmatic shifts in understanding brought about by these breakthroughs, including the consideration of novel fabrication methods and nanoscale applications of these materials, and new theoretical methods such as the effective Hamiltonian approach and density functional theory.

Author : Raneesh Balakrishnan,P. M. Visakh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783527343201

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Nanostructured Multiferroics by Raneesh Balakrishnan,P. M. Visakh Pdf

Explore the state of the art in multiferroic materials with this cutting-edge resource Nanostructured Multiferroics delivers an overview of recent research developments in the area of nanostructured multiferroics, along with their preparation, characterization, and applications. Covering single-phase and composite multiferroics, nanomultiferroics, and multiferroic composites, the book explains their physical properties, the underlying physical principles, and the technology and application aspects of the materials, including energy harvesting and spintronics. With multiferroics undergoing a renaissance of renewed interest and development in the past few years, and with promising new breakthroughs in areas like superconductivity, spintronics, and quantum computing, Nanostructured Multiferroics offers both experienced scientists and young researchers inspirational and informative resources likely to spark ideas for further research. Along with chapters discussing topics such as the specific heat and magnetocaloric properties of manganite-based multiferroics for cryo-cooling applications and the multiferroic properties of barium-doped BiFeO3 particles, further topics are: * A comprehensive discussion about the physical properties of multiferroic nanocomposites * An exploration of the basic theory underpinning a variety of multiferroic interactions * An in-depth analysis of the engineering functionality in nanomultiferroics * An introduction to nanostructured multiferroics accompanied by discussions of their synthesis, characterization, and common applications * A treatment of multiferroic materials, as well as single-phase and composite multiferroics * An examination of the use of nanostructured multiferroics in the field of spintronics Perfect for materials scientists, Nanostructured Multiferroics will also earn a place in the libraries of solid-state physicists and chemists who seek to improve their understanding of the fundamentals of, and recent advances made in, multiferroics. The information contained within will inform anyone working in areas involving superconductivity, quantum computing, and spintronics.

Author : Rainer Waser,Ulrich Böttger,Stephan Tiedke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783527604890

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Polar Oxides by Rainer Waser,Ulrich Böttger,Stephan Tiedke Pdf

Here, more than 20 experts from leading research institutes around the world present the entire scope of this rapidly developing field. In so doing, they cover a wide range of topics, including the characterization and investigation of structural, dielectric and piezoelectric properties of ceramic materials, a well as phase transitions, electrical and optical properties and microscopic investigations. Another feature is a complete profile of the properties of polar oxides -- from their proof to their latest applications. Throughout, the authors review, discuss and assess the material properties with regard to new and advanced characterization and imaging techniques. For physicists, physicochemists, semiconductor and solid state physicists, materials scientists, and students of chemistry and physics.

Author : A. S. Sidorkin
Publisher : Cambridge Int Science Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781904602149

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Domain Structure in Ferroelectrics and Related Materials by A. S. Sidorkin Pdf

The book examines domain structuring due to the loss of the initial phase stability in materials of finite size. It also covers aspects such as the behaviour of domain boundaries during their interaction with lattice defects, their structure in real ferroelectrically ordered materials, the effect of the lattice potential relief on their movement, and the flexural and translational components of their dynamics in ferroelectric crystals. The contribution of the domain boundaries to the dielectric properties of ferroelectrics and elastic properties of ferroelectric elastomers is evaluated.

Author : M. E. Lines,A. M. Glass
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 019850778X

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Principles and Applications of Ferroelectrics and Related Materials by M. E. Lines,A. M. Glass Pdf

This is a standard work on ferroelectrics.

Author : Masanori Okuyama,Yoshihiro Ishibashi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540241639

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Ferroelectric Thin Films by Masanori Okuyama,Yoshihiro Ishibashi Pdf

Ferroelectric thin films continue to attract much attention due to their developing applications in memory devices, FeRAM, infrared sensors, piezoelectric sensors and actuators. This book, aimed at students, researchers and developers, gives detailed information about the basic properties of these materials and the associated device physics. The contributing authors are acknowledged experts in the field.