Dislocation-induced large local polarization inhomogeneity of ferroelectric materials

Ning Li; Ruixue Zhu; Xiaoxing Cheng; Heng Jui Liu; Zhangyuan Zhang; Yen-Lin Huang; Ying-Hao Chu; Long Qing Chen; Yuichi Ikuhara; Peng Gao

doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2020.11.009

Dislocation-induced large local polarization inhomogeneity of ferroelectric materials

Ning Li
, Ruixue Zhu
, Xiaoxing Cheng
, Heng Jui Liu
, Zhangyuan Zhang
, Yen-Lin Huang
, Ying-Hao Chu
, Long Qing Chen
, Yuichi Ikuhara
, Peng Gao^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Dislocations in ferroelectrics play important roles in ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, and dielectricity. However, the intrinsic charge-lattice coupling mechanism in ferroelectric crystals containing dislocations is still not well understood. Here, we report a large local polarization inhomogeneity of ~100 μCcm⁻² induced by a single a[001] dislocation in the PbZr_0.2Ti_0.8O₃/SrTiO₃ film/substrate heterostructure, the tensile region (~120 μCcm⁻²) and the compressive strain region (~21 μCcm⁻²) around the dislocation forms a butterfly-like area. This study reveals the dramatic effects of dislocations on local polarization and provides a strategy to manipulate the polarization magnitude and orientation of local polarization by defect engineering.

Original language	English
Article number	113624
Pages (from-to)	1-5
Number of pages	5
Journal	Scripta Materialia
Volume	194
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2020.11.009
State	Published - 15 Mar 2021

Keywords

Dislocations
ferroelectricity
polarization inhomogeneity

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