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Super-R BiFeO $_3$:具有巨大机电响应的低对称性相的外延稳定

Super-R BiFeO$_3$: Epitaxial stabilization of a low-symmetry phase with giant electromechanical response

Oliver Paull, Changsong Xu, Xuan Cheng, Yangyang Zhang, Bin Xu, Kyle Kelley, Liam Collins, Alex de Marco, Rama K. Vasudevan, Laurent Bellaiche, Valanoor Nagarajan, Daniel Sando

摘要:

压电体将机械能和电荷相互转换,并广泛用于致动器和传感器。性能最好的材料是在准同型相界(MPB)的铁电体,其中几个相可以紧密共存。通过电场在这些相位之间切换产生大的机电响应。在铁电体BiFeO $_3$中,应变可用于产生MPB样相混合物,从而产生大的电场依赖性应变。然而,这种增强的响应发生在膜的局部的、随机定位的区域,这可能使纳米器件设计复杂化。在这里,我们使用外延应变和取向工程串联-各向异性外延-工艺迄今为止不可用的低对称相的BiFeO $_3$,其作为菱面体状和四边形状多晶型物之间的结构桥梁。干涉位移传感器测量和第一原理计算表明,在外部电偏压下,该相经历了向四边形多晶型物的过渡,产生了超过200%的压电响应增强,以及相关的巨场诱导可逆应变。这些结果为在薄膜中设计巨大的机电性能提供了一条新的途径,为其他功能氧化物系统提供了更广阔的前景。

英文摘要:

Piezoelectrics interconvert mechanical energy and electric charge and are widely used in actuators and sensors. The best performing materials are ferroelectrics at a morphotropic phase boundary (MPB), where several phases can intimately coexist. Switching between these phases by electric field produces a large electromechanical response. In the ferroelectric BiFeO$_3$, strain can be used to create an MPB-like phase mixture and thus to generate large electric field dependent strains. However, this enhanced response occurs at localized, randomly positioned regions of the film, which potentially complicates nanodevice design. Here, we use epitaxial strain and orientation engineering in tandem - anisotropic epitaxy - to craft a hitherto unavailable low-symmetry phase of BiFeO$_3$ which acts as a structural bridge between the rhombohedral-like and tetragonal-like polymorphs. Interferometric displacement sensor measurements and first-principle calculations reveal that under external electric bias, this phase undergoes a transition to the tetragonal-like polymorph, generating a piezoelectric response enhanced by over 200%, and associated giant field-induced reversible strain. These results offer a new route to engineer giant electromechanical properties in thin films, with broader perspectives for other functional oxide systems.

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