Engineering antiferroelectric nucleation in ferroelectric films with enhanced piezoelectricity

被引：3
作者：
Liu, S. Z. [1 ,2 ]
Geng, W. R. [1 ,3 ,4 ]
Tang, Y. L. [1 ]
Zhu, Y. L. [3 ]
Wang, Y. J. [1 ,2 ]
Cao, Y. [1 ,2 ]
Jiang, R. J. [1 ,2 ]
Liu, N. [1 ,2 ]
Gong, F. H. [1 ,2 ]
Wang, J. H. [1 ,2 ]
Lv, X. D. [1 ,2 ]
Chen, S. J. [1 ,2 ]
Ma, X. L. [1 ,3 ,4 ]
机构：
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Met Res, Shenyang Natl Lab Mat Sci, Wenhua Rd 72, Shenyang 110016, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Sci & Technol China, Sch Mat Sci & Engn, Wenhua Rd 72, Shenyang 110016, Peoples R China
[3] Bay Area Ctr Elect Microscopy, Songshan Lake Mat Lab, Dongguan 523808, Guangdong, Peoples R China
[4] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Phys, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China
来源：
ACTA MATERIALIA | 2023年 / 250卷
基金：
中国博士后科学基金; 中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词：
Antiferroelectric nucleation; Phase transition; Spacer; Piezoelectricity; Scanning transmission electron microscopy; MORPHOTROPIC PHASE-BOUNDARY; TRANSITION; STRAIN;
D O I：
10.1016/j.actamat.2023.118885
中图分类号：
T [工业技术];
学科分类号：
08 ;
摘要：
Tailoring ferroelectric-antiferroelectric phase transitions provides strategic advantages for potential applications in digital displacement transducers and ultrathin ferroelectric capacitors. In particular, epitaxy of artificial superlattice has been widely used and proved to be capable of creating antiferroelectric-type characteristics within intrinsic ferroelectrics. Here, we have achieved dedicatedly control of ferroelectric-antiferroelectric phase transition by introducing 2 unit-cells antiferroelectric PbZrO3 layers into the intrinsic ferroelectric BiFeO3 films, with the ultrathin PbZrO3 layers acting as the structural spacer to bridge the robust nucleation of striping phase in BiFeO3 layers. Aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy characterization revealed that the BiFeO3 layers experienced a transition to the antiferroelectric-like polymorph via interface-transferred lattice distortion of alternate cation displacement, thereby forming the periodic ferroelectric-antiferroelectric nanoscale laminas. Further piezoresponse force measurements gave the direct evidences that the modulated superlattice exhibited improved piezoelectric performance compared with typical rhombohedral BiFeO3 films. This work paves the way for engineering polarity-mismatched superlattices with enhanced piezoelectric response and en-riches the fundamental of structure-functionality correlations in oxide heterosystems.
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