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90-PbTiO3中20度铁电畴的实验观察和分子动力学模拟

90-degree Ferroelectric Domains in PbTiO3: Experimental Observation and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Kenta Aoyagi, Takeshi Nishimatsu, Takanori Kiguchi, Toyohiko J. Konno, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, Hiroshi Funakubo, Anil Kumar, Umesh V. Waghmare

摘要:

我们报告观察90度的铁电畴结构在透射电子显微镜(TEM)的外延生长的PbTiO 3薄膜。使用分子动力学(MD)模拟的基础上的第一性原理的有效哈密顿量的散装PbTiO 3,我们证实了这种域的发生,显示它只出现在冷却模拟(作为温度降低)的亚稳态和建立特性稳定的90度域结构的PbTiO 3。相比之下,这样的域不表现在类似的模拟钛酸钡。通过对PbTiO 3和BaTiO 3的详细的能量学分析和比较,我们发现90度畴结构仅在PbTiO 3中是能量上有利的,其稳定性的根源在于极化-应变耦合。我们的分析表明,它们可能会形成在钛酸钡由于特殊的边界条件和/或缺陷相关的不均匀性。

英文摘要:

We report observation of 90-degree ferroelectric domain structures in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of epitaxially-grown films of PbTiO3. Using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations based on first-principles effective Hamiltonian of bulk PbTiO3, we corroborate the occurance of such domains showing that it arises as metastable states only in cooling simulations (as the temperature is lowered) and establish characteristic stability of 90-degree domain structures in PbTiO3. In contrast, such domains do not manifest in similar simulations of BaTiO3. Through a detailed analysis based on energetics and comparison between PbTiO3 and BaTiO3, we find that 90-degree domain structures are energetically favorable only in the former, and the origin of their stability lies in the polarization-strain coupling. Our analysis suggests that they may form in BaTiO3 due to special boundary condition and/or defect-related inhomogeneities.

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