Surface-screening mechanisms in ferroelectric thin films and their effect on polarization dynamics and domain structures

SV Kalinin, Y Kim, DD Fong… - Reports on Progress in …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
For over 70 years, ferroelectric materials have been one of the central research topics for
condensed matter physics and material science, an interest driven both by fundamental …

Size effects in epitaxial ferroelectric islands and thin films

J Wang, TY Zhang - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2006 - APS
Size effects on domain configuration and polarization switching in two-dimensional epitaxial
ferroelectric islands and in thin films are investigated by using a continuum phase field …

The internal electric field originating from the mismatch effect and its influence on ferroelectric thin film properties

MD Glinchuk, AN Morozovska - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
The influence of the mismatch effect on thin ferroelectric film properties has been studied in
the phenomenological theory framework. The polarization dependent part of the surface …

Structural, electrical, and dielectric properties of Cr doped ZnO thin films: Role of Cr concentration

O Gürbüz, M Okutan - Applied Surface Science, 2016 - Elsevier
An undoped zinc oxide (ZnO) and different concentrations of chromium (Cr) doped ZnO Cr x
ZnO 1− x (x= 3.74, 5.67, 8.10, 11.88, and 15.96) thin films were prepared using a magnetron …

Structure and energetics of 180 domain walls in PbTiO3 by density functional theory

RK Behera, CW Lee, D Lee… - Journal of Physics …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Density functional theory at the level of the local density approximation with the projector
augmented wave method is used to determine the structure of 180 domain walls in …

Film thickness versus misfit strain phase diagrams for epitaxial ultrathin ferroelectric films

QY Qiu, V Nagarajan, SP Alpay - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2008 - APS
We present a full scale nonlinear thermodynamic model based on a Landau-Ginzburg-
Devonshire formalism and the theory of dense polydomain structures in a multiparameter …

Surface effect on domain wall width in ferroelectrics

EA Eliseev, AN Morozovska, SV Kalinin, Y Li… - Journal of Applied …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We study the effect of the depolarization field on a domain wall structure near the surface of
a ferroelectric. Since in real situation bound and screening charges form an electric double …

Giant magnetoelectric effect induced by intrinsic surface stress in ferroic nanorods

MD Glinchuk, EA Eliseev, AN Morozovska… - Physical Review B …, 2008 - APS
The general approach for the consideration of the magnetoelectric effects in ferroic
nanorods is proposed in the framework of the phenomenological theory. The intrinsic …

Flexocoupling impact on size effects of piezoresponse and conductance in mixed-type ferroelectric semiconductors under applied pressure

AN Morozovska, EA Eliseev, YA Genenko… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We explore the role of flexoelectric effect in functional properties of nanoscale ferroelectric
films with mixed electronic-ionic conductivity. Using a coupled Ginzburg-Landau model, we …

General approach for the description of size effects in ferroelectric nanosystems

EA Eliseev, AN Morozovska - Journal of materials science, 2009 - Springer
We propose general analytical approach for the description of size effect influence on
polarization and dielectric susceptibility in ferroelectric nanosystems based on the two …