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(001)- BiFeO3薄膜的局域导电性和孪壁空位的作用

Local conductivity and the role of vacancies around twin walls of (001)-BiFeO3 thin films

S. Farokhipoor, B. Noheda

摘要:

在SrRuO 3缓冲的(001)取向SrTiO 3衬底上外延生长的BiFeO 3薄膜显示出正交的孪晶畴束,每个孪晶畴束包含平行的周期性的71 °畴壁。少量的109 °畴壁也存在于两个相邻束之间的边界处。由于薄膜和AFM针尖之间的肖特基势垒的选择性降低,所有生长的孪壁在局部探针测量期间相对于畴显示出增强的导电性(参见S. Farokhipoor和B. Noheda,Phys. Rev. Lett. 107,127601(2011))。在本文中,我们进一步讨论这些结果,并说明为什么其他传导机制被丢弃。此外,我们显示了至关重要的作用,氧空位在确定的量在墙壁上的传导。这促使我们提出,氧空位迁移到墙壁局部降低肖特基势垒。然后,这种机制在非铁弹畴壁中效率较低,在非铁弹畴壁中,人们预期壁周围没有应变梯度,因此(假设壁不带电)没有用于积累缺陷的驱动力。

英文摘要:

BiFeO3 thin films epitaxially grown on SrRuO3-buffered (001)-oriented SrTiO3 substrates show orthogonal bundles of twin domains, each of which contains parallel and periodic 71o domain walls. A smaller amount of 109o domain walls are also present at the boundaries between two adjacent bundles. All as-grown twin walls display enhanced conductivity with respect to the domains during local probe measurements, due to the selective lowering of the Schottky barrier between the film and the AFM tip (see S. Farokhipoor and B. Noheda, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 127601 (2011)). In this paper we further discuss these results and show why other conduction mechanisms are discarded. In addition we show the crucial role that oxygen vacancies play in determining the amount of conduction at the walls. This prompts us to propose that the oxygen vacancies migrating to the walls locally lower the Schottky barrier. This mechanism would then be less efficient in non-ferroelastic domain walls where one expects no strain gradients around the walls and thus (assuming that walls are not charged) no driving force for accumulation of defects.

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