Designing Morphotropic Phase Composition in BiFeO3

In classical morphotropic piezoelectric materials, rhombohedral and tetragonal phase variants can energetically compete to form a mixed phase regime with improved functional properties. While the discovery of morphotropic-like phases in multiferroic BiFeO3 films has broadened this definition, access...

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Published in:Nano letters 2019-02, Vol.19 (2), p.1033-1038
Main Authors: Herklotz, Andreas, Rus, Stefania F, Balke, Nina, Rouleau, Christopher, Guo, Er-Jia, Huon, Amanda, KC, Santosh, Roth, Robert, Yang, Xu, Vaswani, Chirag, Wang, Jigang, Orth, Peter P, Scheurer, Mathias S, Ward, Thomas Z
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ferroelectrics
implantation
MATERIALS SCIENCE
metastability
Morphotropic phases
strain
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Summary:In classical morphotropic piezoelectric materials, rhombohedral and tetragonal phase variants can energetically compete to form a mixed phase regime with improved functional properties. While the discovery of morphotropic-like phases in multiferroic BiFeO3 films has broadened this definition, accessing these phase spaces is still typically accomplished through isovalent substitution or heteroepitaxial strain which do not allow for continuous modification of phase composition postsynthesis. Here, we show that it is possible to use low-energy helium implantation to tailor morphotropic phases of epitaxial BiFeO3 films postsynthesis in a continuous and iterative manner. Applying this strain doping approach to morphotropic films creates a new phase space based on internal and external lattice stress that can be seen as an analogue to temperature–composition phase diagrams of classical morphotropic ferroelectric systems.
ISSN:1530-6984
1530-6992
DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04322