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Persistent conductive footprints of 109 degrees domain walls in bismuth ferrite films

Nava Setter, Igor Stolichnov, Enrico Colla, Monika Iwanowska

Using conductive and piezoforce microscopy, we reveal a complex picture of electronic transport at weakly conductive 109 degrees domain walls in bismuth ferrite films. Even once initial ferroelectric stripe domains are changed/erased, persistent conductive ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Elastic Coupling between Nonferroelastic Domain Walls

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Petr Yudin, Konstantin Shapovalov

We reveal a strong elastic interaction between nonferroelastic domain walls in ferroelectric thin films. This interaction, having no analogue in bulk materials, is governed by elastic fields that are associated with the domain walls and extends to distance ...

American Physical Society2014

Defect ordering and defect-domain-wall interactions in PbTiO3: A first-principles study

Nava Setter, Nicola Marzari, Dragan Damjanovic, Anand Chandrasekaran

The properties of ferroelectric materials, such as lead zirconate titanate (PZT), are heavily influenced by the interaction of defects with domain walls. These defects are either intrinsic or are induced by the addition of dopants. We study here PbTiO3 (th ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

Longitudinal piezoelectric coefficient of a twinned ferroelectric perovskite material with an array of partially compensated head-to-head and tail-to-tail 90-degree domain walls has been studied by phase-field simulations in the framework of the Ginzburg-L ...

American Physical Society2013

The contribution of non-180 degrees domain wall displacement to the frequency dependence of the longitudinal piezoelectric coefficient has been determined experimentally in lead zirconate titanate using time-resolved, in situ neutron diffraction. Under sub ...

American Institute of Physics2013

Substrate Clamping Effects on Irreversible Domain Wall Dynamics in Lead Zirconate Titanate Thin Films

Dragan Damjanovic, Ajay Kumar

The role of long-range strain interactions on domain wall dynamics is explored through macroscopic and local measurements of nonlinear behavior in mechanically clamped and released polycrystalline lead zirconate-titanate (PZT) films. Released films show a ...

American Physical Society2012

Domain annihilation due to temperature and thickness gradients in single-crystal BaTiO3

The manner in which 90. ferroelectric-ferroelastic domains respond to changes in temperature has been mapped in BaTiO3 single crystals using atomic force microscopy. Domain periodicity remains unaltered until approximately 2 degrees C below the Curie tempe ...

2012

Macroscopic Theory of Charged Domain Walls in Ferroelectrics

Maxim Gureev

This thesis consists of a theoretical analysis of charged domain walls in ferroelectrics based on Landau theory and the theory of semiconductors. First, the internal structure of a 180-degree charged domain wall is considered. It is shown that different re ...

EPFL2012

Effect of Uniaxial Compressive Stress on Dielectric and Piezoelectric Responses in Lead Zirconate Titanate Based Ceramics

Dragan Damjanovic

A uniaxial compressive stress significantly modifies the dielectric and piezoelectric response of Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT)-based piezoceramics. In soft PZT, the pre-stress decreases both the piezoelectric coefficient and its increment with increasing dynamical st ...

2012

Broadband Dielectric Response in Hard and Soft PZT

Li Jin

Lead zirconate titanate (Pb(Zr1-xTix)O3 or PZT) ferroelectric ceramics have been widely used in transducers, actuators, and sensors, since they posses high dielectric and piezoelectric properties with a relatively high temperature of operation. Commerciall ...

EPFL2011