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2014
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Ferroelectric domain structure of anisotropically strained NaNbO3 epitaxial thin films
Ferroelectric domain structure of anisotropically strained NaNbO3 epitaxial thin films
NaNbO3 thin films have been grown under anisotropic biaxial strain on several oxide substrates byliquid-delivery spin metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. Compressive lattice strain of differentmagnitude, induced by the deposition of NaNbO3 films with varying film thickness on NdGaO3single crysta...
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Personal Name(s): | Schwarzkopf, J. (Corresponding Author) |
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Braun, D. / Schmidbauer, M. / Duk, A. / Wördenweber, R. | |
Contributing Institute: |
JARA-FIT; JARA-FIT Bioelektronik; PGI-8 |
Published in: | Journal of applied physics, 115 (2014) 20, S. 204105 - |
Imprint: |
Melville, NY
American Institute of Physics
2014
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DOI: |
10.1063/1.4876906 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Sensorics and bioinspired systems |
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OpenAccess |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
Please use the identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4876906 in citations.
NaNbO3 thin films have been grown under anisotropic biaxial strain on several oxide substrates byliquid-delivery spin metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. Compressive lattice strain of differentmagnitude, induced by the deposition of NaNbO3 films with varying film thickness on NdGaO3single crystalline substrates, leads to modifications of film orientation and phase symmetry, whichare similar to the phase transitions in Pb-containing oxides near the morphotropic phase boundary.Piezoresponse force microscopy measurements exhibit large out-of-plane polarization components,but no distinctive domain structure, while C-V measurements indicate relaxor properties in thesefilms. When tensile strain is provoked by the epitaxial growth on DyScO3, TbScO3, and GdScO3single crystalline substrates, NaNbO3 films behave rather like a normal ferroelectric. Theapplication of these rare-earth scandate substrates yields well-ordered ferroelectric stripe domains ofthe type a1/a2 with coherent domain walls aligned along the [001] substrate direction as long as thefilms are fully strained. With increasing plastic lattice relaxation, initially, a 2D domain pattern withstill exclusively in-plane electric polarization, and finally, domains with in-plane and out-of-planepolar components evolve. |