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Ganguly S, Pesquera D, Garcia DM, Saeed U, Mirzamohammadi N, Santiso J, Padilla J, Roque JMC, Laulhé C, Berenguer F, Villanueva LG, Catalan G. Photostrictive Actuators Based on Freestanding Ferroelectric Membranes. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2310198. [PMID: 38546029 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202310198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2023] [Revised: 03/12/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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Complex oxides offer a wide range of functional properties, and recent advances in the fabrication of freestanding membranes of these oxides are adding new mechanical degrees of freedom to this already rich functional ecosystem. Here, photoactuation is demonstrated in freestanding thin film resonators of ferroelectric Barium Titanate (BaTiO3) and paraelectric Strontium Titanate (SrTiO3). The free-standing films, transferred onto perforated supports, act as nano-drums, oscillating at their natural resonance frequency when illuminated by a frequency-modulated laser. The light-induced deflections in the ferroelectric BaTiO3 membranes are two orders of magnitude larger than in the paraelectric SrTiO3 ones. Time-resolved X-ray micro-diffraction under illumination and temperature-dependent holographic interferometry provide combined evidence for the photostrictive strain in BaTiO3 originating from a partial screening of ferroelectric polarization by photo-excited carriers, which decreases the tetragonality of the unit cell. These findings showcase the potential of photostrictive freestanding ferroelectric films as wireless actuators operated by light.
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- Saptam Ganguly
- Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 08193, Catalonia, Spain
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- Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 08193, Catalonia, Spain
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- Advanced NEMS Laboratory, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
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- Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 08193, Catalonia, Spain
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- Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 08193, Catalonia, Spain
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- Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 08193, Catalonia, Spain
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- Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 08193, Catalonia, Spain
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- Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 08193, Catalonia, Spain
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Synchrotron SOLEIL, Saint-Aubin, 91190, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin BP 48, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190, France
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- Advanced NEMS Laboratory, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
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- Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 08193, Catalonia, Spain
- ICREA - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, 08010, Catalonia
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Chen S, Tong X, Huo Y, Liu S, Yin Y, Tan ML, Cai K, Ji W. Piezoelectric Biomaterials Inspired by Nature for Applications in Biomedicine and Nanotechnology. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024:e2406192. [PMID: 39003609 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202406192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2024] [Revised: 06/10/2024] [Indexed: 07/15/2024]
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Bioelectricity provides electrostimulation to regulate cell/tissue behaviors and functions. In the human body, bioelectricity can be generated in electromechanically responsive tissues and organs, as well as biomolecular building blocks that exhibit piezoelectricity, with a phenomenon known as the piezoelectric effect. Inspired by natural bio-piezoelectric phenomenon, efforts have been devoted to exploiting high-performance synthetic piezoelectric biomaterials, including molecular materials, polymeric materials, ceramic materials, and composite materials. Notably, piezoelectric biomaterials polarize under mechanical strain and generate electrical potentials, which can be used to fabricate electronic devices. Herein, a review article is proposed to summarize the design and research progress of piezoelectric biomaterials and devices toward bionanotechnology. First, the functions of bioelectricity in regulating human electrophysiological activity from cellular to tissue level are introduced. Next, recent advances as well as structure-property relationship of various natural and synthetic piezoelectric biomaterials are provided in detail. In the following part, the applications of piezoelectric biomaterials in tissue engineering, drug delivery, biosensing, energy harvesting, and catalysis are systematically classified and discussed. Finally, the challenges and future prospects of piezoelectric biomaterials are presented. It is believed that this review will provide inspiration for the design and development of innovative piezoelectric biomaterials in the fields of biomedicine and nanotechnology.
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- Siying Chen
- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education, Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 401147, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China
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Liu H, Lai Q, Fu J, Zhang S, Fu Z, Zeng H. Reversible flexoelectric domain engineering at the nanoscale in van der Waals ferroelectrics. Nat Commun 2024; 15:4556. [PMID: 38811549 PMCID: PMC11136971 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48892-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2024] [Accepted: 05/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/31/2024] Open
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The universal flexoelectric effect in solids provides a mechanical pathway for controlling electric polarization in ultrathin ferroelectrics, eliminating potential material breakdown from a giant electric field at the nanoscale. One challenge of this approach is arbitrary implementation, which is strongly hindered by one-way switching capability. Here, utilizing the innate flexibility of van der Waals materials, we demonstrate that ferroelectric polarization and domain structures can be mechanically, reversibly, and arbitrarily switched in two-dimensional CuInP2S6 via the nano-tip imprinting technique. The bidirectional flexoelectric control is attributed to the extended tip-induced deformation in two-dimensional systems with innate flexibility at the atomic scale. By employing an elastic substrate, artificial ferroelectric nanodomains with lateral sizes as small as ~80 nm are noninvasively generated in an area of 1 μm2, equal to a density of 31.4 Gbit/in2. Our results highlight the potential applications of van der Waals ferroelectrics in data storage and flexoelectronics.
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- Heng Liu
- International Center for Quantum Design of Functional Materials (ICQD), Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230088, China
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- International Center for Quantum Design of Functional Materials (ICQD), Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230088, China
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- International Center for Quantum Design of Functional Materials (ICQD), Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230088, China
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- College of Physics and Electronic Information, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, 650500, China
- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Technology, Kunming, 650500, China
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- College of Physics and Electronic Information, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, 650500, China
- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Technology, Kunming, 650500, China
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- International Center for Quantum Design of Functional Materials (ICQD), Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
- CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China.
- Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230088, China.
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Yun S, le Cozannet TE, Christoffersen CH, Brand E, Jespersen TS, Pryds N. Strain Engineering: Perfecting Freestanding Perovskite Oxide Fabrication. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024:e2310782. [PMID: 38431927 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202310782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2023] [Revised: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024]
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Freestanding oxide membranes provide a promising path for integrating devices on silicon and flexible platforms. To ensure optimal device performance, these membranes must be of high crystal quality, stoichiometric, and their morphology free from cracks and wrinkles. Often, layers transferred on substrates show wrinkles and cracks due to a lattice relaxation from an epitaxial mismatch. Doping the sacrificial layer of Sr3 Al2 O6 (SAO) with Ca or Ba offers a promising solution to overcome these challenges, yet its effects remain critically underexplored. A systematic study of doping Ca into SAO is presented, optimizing the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) conditions, and adjusting the supporting polymer type and thickness, demonstrating that strain engineering can effectively eliminate these imperfections. Using SrTiO3 as a case study, it is found that Ca1.5 Sr1.5 Al2 O6 offers a near-perfect match and a defect-free freestanding membrane. This approach, using the water-soluble Bax /Cax Sr3-x Al2 O6 family, paves the way for producing high-quality, large freestanding membranes for functional oxide devices.
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- Shinhee Yun
- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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He X, Boda MA, Chen C, Dun R, Wang L, Bao Y, Pang D, Guo L, Zeng H, Li Y, Yi Z. Ultra-large electromechanical deformation in lead-free piezoceramics at reduced thickness. MATERIALS HORIZONS 2024; 11:1079-1087. [PMID: 38093683 DOI: 10.1039/d3mh01657a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2024]
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Lead-free piezoceramics with large controllable deformations are highly desirable for numerous energy converter applications ranging from consumer electronics to medical microrobots. Although several new classes of high-performance ferroelectrics have been discovered, a universal strategy to enable various piezoceramics to realize large electromechanical deformations is still lacking. Herein, by gradually reducing the thickness from 0.5 mm to 0.1 mm, we discover that a large nominal electrostrain of ∼11.49% can be achieved in thin 0.937(Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3-0.063BaTiO3 (BNT-BT) ceramics with highly asymmetric strain-electric field curves. Further analyses of the polarization switching process reveal that the boosted strain curves originate from the bending deformation driven by asymmetric ferroelastic switching in the surface layers. Based on this, one monolayer BNT-BT was designed to realize digital displacement actuation and a scanning mirror application with a maximum mirror deflection angle of 44.38°. Moreover, the surface effect-induced bending deformation can be extended to other piezoceramics, accompanied by derived shape retention effects. These discoveries raise the possibility of utilizing thickness engineering to design large-displacement actuators and may accelerate the development of high-performance lead-free piezoceramics.
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- Xiang He
- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Chemistry and Physics, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Chemistry and Physics, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.
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- College of Rare Earths, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou 341000, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Chemistry and Physics, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Chemistry and Physics, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China.
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Wu Q, Wang K, Simpson A, Hao Y, Wang J, Li D, Hong X. Electrode Effect on Ferroelectricity in Free-Standing Membranes of PbZr 0.2Ti 0.8O 3. ACS NANOSCIENCE AU 2023; 3:482-490. [PMID: 38144704 PMCID: PMC10740143 DOI: 10.1021/acsnanoscienceau.3c00032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2023] [Revised: 09/30/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 12/26/2023]
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We report the effects of screening capacity, surface roughness, and interfacial epitaxy of the bottom electrodes on the polarization switching, domain wall (DW) roughness, and ferroelectric Curie temperature (TC) of PbZr0.2Ti0.8O3 (PZT)-based free-standing membranes. Singe crystalline 10-50 nm (001) PZT and PZT/La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 (LSMO) membranes are prepared on Au, correlated oxide LSMO, and two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor MoS2 base layers. Switching the polarization of PZT yields nonvolatile current modulation in the MoS2 channel at room temperature, with an on/off ratio of up to 2 × 105 and no apparent decay for more than 3 days. Piezoresponse force microscopy studies show that the coercive field Ec for the PZT membranes varies from 0.75 to 3.0 MV cm-1 on different base layers and exhibits strong polarization asymmetry. The PZT/LSMO membranes exhibit significantly smaller Ec, with the samples transferred on LSMO showing symmetric Ec of about -0.26/+0.28 MV cm-1, smaller than that of epitaxial PZT films. The DW roughness exponent ζ points to 2D random bond disorder dominated DW roughening (ζ = 0.31) at room temperature. Upon thermal quench at progressively higher temperatures, ζ values for PZT membranes on Au and LSMO approach the theoretical value for 1D random bond disorder (ζ = 2/3), while samples on MoS2 exhibits thermal roughening (ζ = 1/2). The PZT membranes on Au, LSMO, and MoS2 show TC of about 763 ± 12, 725 ± 25, and 588 ± 12 °C, respectively, well exceeding the bulk value. Our study reveals the complex interplay between the electrostatic and mechanical boundary conditions in determining ferroelectricity in free-standing PZT membranes, providing important material parameters for the functional design of PZT-based flexible nanoelectronics.
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- Qiuchen Wu
- Department
of Physics and Astronomy & Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska−Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0299, United
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy & Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska−Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0299, United
States
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy & Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska−Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0299, United
States
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy & Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska−Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0299, United
States
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy & Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska−Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0299, United
States
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy & Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska−Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0299, United
States
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy & Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska−Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0299, United
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Long J, Wang T, Tan C, Chen J, Zhou Y, Lun Y, Zhang Y, Zhong X, Wu Y, Song H, Ouyang X, Hong J, Wang J. Self-Recovery of a Buckling BaTiO 3 Ferroelectric Membrane. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:55984-55990. [PMID: 37993976 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c12730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2023]
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The characteristic of self-recovery holds significant implications for upholding performance stability within flexible electronic devices following the release of mechanical deformation. Herein, the dynamics of self-recovery in a buckling inorganic membrane is studied via in situ scanning probe microscopy technology. The experimental results demonstrate that the ultimate deformation ratio of the buckling BaTiO3 ferroelectric membrane is up to 88%, which is much higher than that of the buckling SrTiO3 dielectric membrane (49%). Combined with piezoresponse force microscopy and phase-field simulations, we find that ferroelectric domain transformation accompanies the whole process of buckling and self-recovery of the ferroelectric membrane, i.e., the presence of the nano-c domain not only releases part of the elastic energy of the membrane but also reduces the interface mismatch of the a/c domain, which encourages the buckling ferroelectric membrane to have excellent self-recovery properties. It is conceivable that the evolution of ferroelectric domains will play a greater role in the regulation of the mechanical properties of ferroelectric membranes and flexible devices.
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- Jiemei Long
- National-Provincial Laboratory of Special Function Thin Film Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan 411105, China
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- School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- National-Provincial Laboratory of Special Function Thin Film Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan 411105, China
- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Sensors and Advanced Sensor Materials, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, Hunan, China
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- National-Provincial Laboratory of Special Function Thin Film Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan 411105, China
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- National-Provincial Laboratory of Special Function Thin Film Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan 411105, China
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- School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China
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- National-Provincial Laboratory of Special Function Thin Film Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan 411105, China
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- National-Provincial Laboratory of Special Function Thin Film Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan 411105, China
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- National-Provincial Laboratory of Special Function Thin Film Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan 411105, China
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- National-Provincial Laboratory of Special Function Thin Film Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan 411105, China
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- School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- National-Provincial Laboratory of Special Function Thin Film Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan 411105, China
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Sheeraz M, Jung MH, Kim YK, Lee NJ, Jeong S, Choi JS, Jo YJ, Cho S, Kim IW, Kim YM, Kim S, Ahn CW, Yang SM, Jeong HY, Kim TH. Freestanding Oxide Membranes for Epitaxial Ferroelectric Heterojunctions. ACS NANO 2023. [PMID: 37406362 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c01974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/07/2023]
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Since facile routes to fabricate freestanding oxide membranes were previously established, tremendous efforts have been made to further improve their crystallinity, and fascinating physical properties have been also reported in heterointegrated freestanding membranes. Here, we demonstrate our synthetic recipe to manufacture highly crystalline perovskite SrRuO3 freestanding membranes using new infinite-layer perovskite SrCuO2 sacrificial layers. To accomplish this, SrRuO3/SrCuO2 bilayer thin films are epitaxially grown on SrTiO3 (001) substrates, and the topmost SrRuO3 layer is chemically exfoliated by etching the SrCuO2 template layer. The as-exfoliated SrRuO3 membranes are mechanically transferred to various nonoxide substrates for the subsequent BaTiO3 film growth. Finally, freestanding heteroepitaxial junctions of ferroelectric BaTiO3 and metallic SrRuO3 are realized, exhibiting robust ferroelectricity. Intriguingly, the enhancement of piezoelectric responses is identified in freestanding BaTiO3/SrRuO3 heterojunctions with mixed ferroelectric domain states. Our approaches will offer more opportunities to develop heteroepitaxial freestanding oxide membranes with high crystallinity and enhanced functionality.
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- Muhammad Sheeraz
- Department of Physics and Energy Harvest-Storage Research Center (EHSRC), University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics, Sogang University, Seoul 04107, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Energy Harvest-Storage Research Center (EHSRC), University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Energy Harvest-Storage Research Center (EHSRC), University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Energy Harvest-Storage Research Center (EHSRC), University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Energy Harvest-Storage Research Center (EHSRC), University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Energy Harvest-Storage Research Center (EHSRC), University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Energy Harvest-Storage Research Center (EHSRC), University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Energy Harvest-Storage Research Center (EHSRC), University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Energy Harvest-Storage Research Center (EHSRC), University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics, Sogang University, Seoul 04107, Republic of Korea
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- Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Energy Harvest-Storage Research Center (EHSRC), University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Republic of Korea
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Kim D, Kim M, Reidt S, Han H, Baghizadeh A, Zeng P, Choi H, Puigmartí-Luis J, Trassin M, Nelson BJ, Chen XZ, Pané S. Shape-memory effect in twisted ferroic nanocomposites. Nat Commun 2023; 14:750. [PMID: 36765045 PMCID: PMC9918508 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36274-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/12/2023] Open
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The shape recovery ability of shape-memory alloys vanishes below a critical size (~50 nm), which prevents their practical applications at the nanoscale. In contrast, ferroic materials, even when scaled down to dimensions of a few nanometers, exhibit actuation strain through domain switching, though the generated strain is modest (~1%). Here, we develop freestanding twisted architectures of nanoscale ferroic oxides showing shape-memory effect with a giant recoverable strain (>8%). The twisted geometrical design amplifies the strain generated during ferroelectric domain switching, which cannot be achieved in bulk ceramics or substrate-bonded thin films. The twisted ferroic nanocomposites allow us to overcome the size limitations in traditional shape-memory alloys and open new avenues in engineering large-stroke shape-memory materials for small-scale actuating devices such as nanorobots and artificial muscle fibrils.
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- Donghoon Kim
- grid.5801.c0000 0001 2156 2780Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, Tannenstrasse 3, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- grid.5801.c0000 0001 2156 2780Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, Tannenstrasse 3, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- grid.410387.9IBM Research Zurich, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschilikon, Switzerland
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- grid.450270.40000 0004 0491 5558Max Plank Institute of Microstructure Physics, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
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- grid.5801.c0000 0001 2156 2780The Scientific Center for Optical and Electron Microscopy (ScopeM), ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- grid.5801.c0000 0001 2156 2780The Scientific Center for Optical and Electron Microscopy (ScopeM), ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- grid.417736.00000 0004 0438 6721Department of Robotics & Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST-ETH Microrobotics Research Center, Daegu Gyeong-buk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- grid.5841.80000 0004 1937 0247Departament de Ciència dels Materials i Química Física, Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional, University of Barcelona (UB), 08028 Barcelona, Spain ,grid.425902.80000 0000 9601 989XInstitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA); Pg. Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, 08010 Spain
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- grid.5801.c0000 0001 2156 2780Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- grid.5801.c0000 0001 2156 2780Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, Tannenstrasse 3, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, Tannenstrasse 3, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, Tannenstrasse 3, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Li Y, Xiang C, Chiabrera FM, Yun S, Zhang H, Kelly DJ, Dahm RT, Kirchert CKR, Cozannet TEL, Trier F, Christensen DV, Booth TJ, Simonsen SB, Kadkhodazadeh S, Jespersen TS, Pryds N. Stacking and Twisting of Freestanding Complex Oxide Thin Films. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2022; 34:e2203187. [PMID: 35901262 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202203187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2022] [Revised: 07/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The integration of dissimilar materials in heterostructures has long been a cornerstone of modern materials science-seminal examples are 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures. Recently, new methods have been developed that enable the realization of ultrathin freestanding oxide films approaching the 2D limit. Oxides offer new degrees of freedom, due to the strong electronic interactions, especially the 3d orbital electrons, which give rise to rich exotic phases. Inspired by this progress, a new platform for assembling freestanding oxide thin films with different materials and orientations into artificial stacks with heterointerfaces is developed. It is shown that the oxide stacks can be tailored by controlling the stacking sequences, as well as the twist angle between the constituent layers with atomically sharp interfaces, leading to distinct moiré patterns in the transmission electron microscopy images of the full stacks. Stacking and twisting is recognized as a key degree of structural freedom in 2D materials but, until now, has never been realized for oxide materials. This approach opens unexplored avenues for fabricating artificial 3D oxide stacking heterostructures with freestanding membranes across a broad range of complex oxide crystal structures with functionalities not available in conventional 2D materials.
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- Ying Li
- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
- Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Systems Science in Metallurgical Process, Faculty of Science, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430081, P. R. China
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- Department of Physics, Centre for Nanostructured Graphene (CNG), Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 309, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- DTU Nanolab, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 307, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, Centre for Nanostructured Graphene (CNG), Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 309, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- DTU Nanolab, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 307, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fysikvej, 310, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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Pesquera D, Fernández A, Khestanova E, Martin LW. Freestanding complex-oxide membranes. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2022; 34:383001. [PMID: 35779514 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac7dd5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2022] [Accepted: 07/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Complex oxides show a vast range of functional responses, unparalleled within the inorganic solids realm, making them promising materials for applications as varied as next-generation field-effect transistors, spintronic devices, electro-optic modulators, pyroelectric detectors, or oxygen reduction catalysts. Their stability in ambient conditions, chemical versatility, and large susceptibility to minute structural and electronic modifications make them ideal subjects of study to discover emergent phenomena and to generate novel functionalities for next-generation devices. Recent advances in the synthesis of single-crystal, freestanding complex oxide membranes provide an unprecedented opportunity to study these materials in a nearly-ideal system (e.g. free of mechanical/thermal interaction with substrates) as well as expanding the range of tools for tweaking their order parameters (i.e. (anti-)ferromagnetic, (anti-)ferroelectric, ferroelastic), and increasing the possibility of achieving novel heterointegration approaches (including interfacing dissimilar materials) by avoiding the chemical, structural, or thermal constraints in synthesis processes. Here, we review the recent developments in the fabrication and characterization of complex-oxide membranes and discuss their potential for unraveling novel physicochemical phenomena at the nanoscale and for further exploiting their functionalities in technologically relevant devices.
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- David Pesquera
- Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, Spain
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States of America
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States of America
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States of America
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Fernandez A, Acharya M, Lee HG, Schimpf J, Jiang Y, Lou D, Tian Z, Martin LW. Thin-Film Ferroelectrics. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2022; 34:e2108841. [PMID: 35353395 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202108841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2021] [Revised: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Over the last 30 years, the study of ferroelectric oxides has been revolutionized by the implementation of epitaxial-thin-film-based studies, which have driven many advances in the understanding of ferroelectric physics and the realization of novel polar structures and functionalities. New questions have motivated the development of advanced synthesis, characterization, and simulations of epitaxial thin films and, in turn, have provided new insights and applications across the micro-, meso-, and macroscopic length scales. This review traces the evolution of ferroelectric thin-film research through the early days developing understanding of the roles of size and strain on ferroelectrics to the present day, where such understanding is used to create complex hierarchical domain structures, novel polar topologies, and controlled chemical and defect profiles. The extension of epitaxial techniques, coupled with advances in high-throughput simulations, now stands to accelerate the discovery and study of new ferroelectric materials. Coming hand-in-hand with these new materials is new understanding and control of ferroelectric functionalities. Today, researchers are actively working to apply these lessons in a number of applications, including novel memory and logic architectures, as well as a host of energy conversion devices.
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- Abel Fernandez
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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Jin C, Zhu Y, Li X, An F, Han W, Liu Q, Hu S, Ji Y, Xu Z, Hu S, Ye M, Zhong G, Gu M, Chen L. Super-Flexible Freestanding BiMnO 3 Membranes with Stable Ferroelectricity and Ferromagnetism. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2021; 8:e2102178. [PMID: 34713629 PMCID: PMC8693045 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202102178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2021] [Revised: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Multiferroic materials with flexibility are expected to make great contributions to flexible electronic applications, such as sensors, memories, and wearable devices. In this work, super-flexible freestanding BiMnO3 membranes with simultaneous ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism are synthesized using water-soluble Sr3 Al2 O6 as the sacrificial buffer layer. The super-flexibility of BiMnO3 membranes is demonstrated by undergoing an ≈180° folding during an in situ bending test, which is consistent with the results of first-principles calculations. The piezoelectric signal under a bending radius of ≈500 µm confirms the stable existence of electric polarization in freestanding BiMnO3 membranes. Moreover, the stable ferromagnetism of freestanding BiMnO3 membranes is demonstrated after 100 times bending cycles with a bending radius of ≈2 mm. 5.1% uniaxial tensile strain is achieved in freestanding BiMnO3 membranes, and the piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) phase retention behaviors confirm that the ferroelectricity of membranes can survive stably up to the strain of 1.7%. These super-flexible membranes with stable ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism pave ways to the realizations of multifunctional flexible electronics.
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- Cai Jin
- Department of PhysicsSouthern University of Science and TechnologyShenzhen518055China
- School of PhysicsHarbin Institute of TechnologyHarbin150081China
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- Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary StudiesSouthern University of Science and TechnologyShenzhen518055China
- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringSouthern University of Science and TechnologyShenzhen518055China
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- Department of PhysicsSouthern University of Science and TechnologyShenzhen518055China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of NanobiomechanicsShenzhen Institutes of Advanced TechnologyChinese Academy of SciencesShenzhen518055China
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- Department of PhysicsSouthern University of Science and TechnologyShenzhen518055China
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- Department of PhysicsSouthern University of Science and TechnologyShenzhen518055China
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- Materials Characterization and Preparation CenterSouthern University of Science and TechnologyShenzhen518055China
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- Department of PhysicsSouthern University of Science and TechnologyShenzhen518055China
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- Department of PhysicsSouthern University of Science and TechnologyShenzhen518055China
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- Department of PhysicsSouthern University of Science and TechnologyShenzhen518055China
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- Department of PhysicsSouthern University of Science and TechnologyShenzhen518055China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of NanobiomechanicsShenzhen Institutes of Advanced TechnologyChinese Academy of SciencesShenzhen518055China
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- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringSouthern University of Science and TechnologyShenzhen518055China
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- Department of PhysicsSouthern University of Science and TechnologyShenzhen518055China
- Materials Characterization and Preparation CenterSouthern University of Science and TechnologyShenzhen518055China
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Elangovan H, Barzilay M, Huang J, Liu S, Cohen S, Ivry Y. Engineering Individual Oxygen Vacancies: Domain-Wall Conductivity and Controllable Topological Solitons. ACS NANO 2021; 15:13380-13388. [PMID: 34355902 PMCID: PMC8631733 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c03623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Nanoscale devices that utilize oxygen vacancies in two-dimensional metal-oxide structures garner much attention due to conductive, magnetic, and even superconductive functionalities they exhibit. Ferroelectric domain walls have been a prominent recent example because they serve as a hub for topological defects and hence are attractive for next-generation data technologies. However, owing to the light weight of oxygen atoms and localized effects of their vacancies, the atomic-scale electrical and mechanical influence of individual oxygen vacancies has remained elusive. Here, stable individual oxygen vacancies were engineered in situ at domain walls of seminal titanate perovskite ferroics. The atomic-scale electric-field, charge, dipole-moment, and strain distribution around these vacancies were characterized by combining advanced transmission electron microscopy and first-principle methodologies. The engineered vacancies were used to form quasi-linear quadrupole topological defects. Significant intraband states were found in the unit cell of the engineered vacancies, proposing a meaningful domain-wall conductivity for miniaturized data-storage applications. Reduction of the Ti ion as well as enhanced charging and electric-field concentration were demonstrated near the vacancy. A 3-5% tensile strain was observed at the immediate surrounding unit cells of the vacancies. Engineering individual oxygen vacancies and topological solitons thus offers a platform for predetermining both atomic-scale and global functional properties of device miniaturization in metal oxides.
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- Hemaprabha Elangovan
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion−Israel
Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
- Solid
State Institute, Technion−Israel
Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion−Israel
Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
- Solid
State Institute, Technion−Israel
Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- School
of Science, Westlake University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310024, China
- Institute
of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute
for Advanced Study, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310024, China
- Key
Laboratory for Quantum Materials of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310024, China
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- School
of Science, Westlake University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310024, China
- Institute
of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute
for Advanced Study, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310024, China
- Key
Laboratory for Quantum Materials of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310024, China
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- Nuclear
Research Centre-Negev, Beer-Sheva 84190, Israel
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion−Israel
Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
- Solid
State Institute, Technion−Israel
Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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Xu S, Jia F, Hu S, Sundaresan A, Ter-Oganessian NV, Pyatakov AP, Cheng J, Zhang J, Cao S, Ren W. Predicting the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of few atomic-layer polar perovskite. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:5578-5582. [PMID: 33655285 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp06671k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Density functional theory (DFT) calculations are performed to predict the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of electrically neutral or charged few-atomic-layer (AL) oxides based on polar perovskite KTaO3. Their properties vary greatly with the number of ALs (nAL) and the stoichiometric ratio. In the few-AL limit (nAL ≤ 14), the even AL (EL) systems with the chemical formula (KTaO3)n are semiconductors, while the odd AL (OL) systems with the formula Kn+1TanO3n+1 or KnTan+1O3n+2 are half-metal except for the unique KTa2O5 case which is a semiconductor due to the large Peierls distortions. After reaching a certain critical thickness (nAL > 14), the EL systems show ferromagnetic surface states, while ferromagnetism disappears in the OL systems. These predictions from fundamental complexity of polar perovskite when approaching the two-dimensional (2D) limit may be helpful for interpreting experimental observations later.
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- Shaowen Xu
- Physics Department, International Center for Quantum and Molecular Structures, Shanghai Key Laboratory of High Temperature Superconductors, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China. and Materials Genome Institute, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Physics Department, International Center for Quantum and Molecular Structures, Shanghai Key Laboratory of High Temperature Superconductors, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China. and Materials Genome Institute, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Physics Department, International Center for Quantum and Molecular Structures, Shanghai Key Laboratory of High Temperature Superconductors, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China. and Materials Genome Institute, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore-560064, India
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- M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics, 1-2 Leninskiye Gory, GSP-1, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Physics Department, International Center for Quantum and Molecular Structures, Shanghai Key Laboratory of High Temperature Superconductors, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China. and Materials Genome Institute, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Physics Department, International Center for Quantum and Molecular Structures, Shanghai Key Laboratory of High Temperature Superconductors, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China. and Materials Genome Institute, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Physics Department, International Center for Quantum and Molecular Structures, Shanghai Key Laboratory of High Temperature Superconductors, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China. and Materials Genome Institute, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Physics Department, International Center for Quantum and Molecular Structures, Shanghai Key Laboratory of High Temperature Superconductors, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China. and Materials Genome Institute, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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Pesquera D, Parsonnet E, Qualls A, Xu R, Gubser AJ, Kim J, Jiang Y, Velarde G, Huang YL, Hwang HY, Ramesh R, Martin LW. Beyond Substrates: Strain Engineering of Ferroelectric Membranes. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2020; 32:e2003780. [PMID: 32964567 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202003780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2020] [Revised: 08/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Strain engineering in perovskite oxides provides for dramatic control over material structure, phase, and properties, but is restricted by the discrete strain states produced by available high-quality substrates. Here, using the ferroelectric BaTiO3 , production of precisely strain-engineered, substrate-released nanoscale membranes is demonstrated via an epitaxial lift-off process that allows the high crystalline quality of films grown on substrates to be replicated. In turn, fine structural tuning is achieved using interlayer stress in symmetric trilayer oxide-metal/ferroelectric/oxide-metal structures fabricated from the released membranes. In devices integrated on silicon, the interlayer stress provides deterministic control of ordering temperature (from 75 to 425 °C) and releasing the substrate clamping is shown to dramatically impact ferroelectric switching and domain dynamics (including reducing coercive fields to <10 kV cm-1 and improving switching times to <5 ns for a 20 µm diameter capacitor in a 100-nm-thick film). In devices integrated on flexible polymers, enhanced room-temperature dielectric permittivity with large mechanical tunability (a 90% change upon ±0.1% strain application) is demonstrated. This approach paves the way toward the fabrication of ultrafast CMOS-compatible ferroelectric memories and ultrasensitive flexible nanosensor devices, and it may also be leveraged for the stabilization of novel phases and functionalities not achievable via direct epitaxial growth.
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- David Pesquera
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 08193, Spain
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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Barzilay M, Ivry Y. Formation and manipulation of domain walls with 2 nm domain periodicity in BaTiO 3 without contact electrodes. NANOSCALE 2020; 12:11136-11142. [PMID: 32400795 DOI: 10.1039/d0nr01747g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
Interfaces at the two-dimensional limit in oxide materials exhibit a wide span of functionality that differs significantly from the bulk behavior. Among such interfaces, domain walls in ferroelectrics draw special attention because they can be moved deterministically with external voltage, while they remain at place after voltage removal, paving the way to novel neuromorphic and low-power data-processing technologies. Ferroic domains arise to release strain, which depends on material thickness, following Kittel's scaling law. Hence, a major hurdle is to reduce the device footprint for a given thickness, i.e., to form and move high-density domain walls. Here, we used transmission electron microscopy to produce domain walls with periodicity as high as 2 nm without the use of contact electrodes, while observing their formation and dynamics in situ in BaTiO3. Large-area coverage of the engineered domain walls was demonstrated. The domain-wall density was found to increase with increasing effective stress, until arriving at a saturation value that reflects 150-fold effective stress enhancement. Exceeding this value resulted in strain release by domain rotation. In addition to revealing this multiscale strain-releasing mechanism, we offer a device design that allows controllable switching of domain-walls with 2 nm periodicity, reflecting a potential 144 Tb per inch2 neuromorphic network.
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Affiliation(s)
- Maya Barzilay
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel. and Solid State Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel. and Solid State Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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