Optical studies of ferroelectric and ferroelastic domain walls

GF Nataf, M Guennou - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent studies carried out with atomic force microscopy or high-resolution transmission
electron microscopy reveal that ferroic domain walls can exhibit different physical properties …

Raman spectroscopy of piezoelectrics

G Pezzotti - Journal of Applied Physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Raman spectroscopy represents an insightful characterization tool in electronics, which
comprehensively suits the technological needs for locally and quantitatively assessing …

“Seeing is believing”—In-depth analysis by co-imaging of periodically-poled x-cut lithium niobate thin films

S Reitzig, M Rüsing, J Zhao, B Kirbus, S Mookherjea… - Crystals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nonlinear and quantum optical devices based on periodically-poled thin film lithium niobate
(PP-TFLN) have gained considerable interest lately, due to their significantly improved …

Micro-and nanodomain imaging in uniaxial ferroelectrics: Joint application of optical, confocal Raman, and piezoelectric force microscopy

V Ya Shur, PS Zelenovskiy - Journal of Applied Physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The application of the most effective methods of the domain visualization in model uniaxial
ferroelectrics of lithium niobate (LN) and lithium tantalate (LT) family, and relaxor strontium …

Direct observation of polar tweed in LaAlO3

EKH Salje, M Alexe, S Kustov, MC Weber… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Polar tweed was discovered in mechanically stressed LaAlO3. Local patches of strained
material (diameter ca. 5 μm) form interwoven patterns seen in birefringence images, Piezo …

[HTML][HTML] High-speed hyperspectral imaging of ferroelectric domain walls using broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

S Reitzig, F Hempel, J Ratzenberger… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Spontaneous Raman spectroscopy (SR) is a versatile method for analysis and visualization
of ferroelectric crystal structures, including domain walls. Nevertheless, the necessary …

Imaging of ferroelectric domain walls in uniaxial ferroelectrics by confocal Raman spectroscopy: Unraveling the contrast mechanism

M Rüsing, S Neufeld, J Brockmeier, C Eigner… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
In recent years, Raman spectroscopy has been used to visualize and analyze ferroelectric
domain structures. The technique makes use of the fact that the intensity or frequency of …

Investigation of the nanodomain structure formation by piezoelectric force microscopy and Raman confocal microscopy in LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 crystals

VY Shur, PS Zelenovskiy, MS Nebogatikov… - Journal of Applied …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Piezoelectric force microscopy (PFM) and Raman confocal microscopy have been used for
studying the nanodomain structures in congruent LiNbO 3 and LiTaO 3 crystals. The high …

Terahertz plasmonics in ferroelectric-gated graphene

D Jin, A Kumar, K Hung Fung, J Xu, NX Fang - Applied Physics Letters, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Inspired by recent advancement of ferroelectric-gated memories and transistors, we propose
a design of ferroelectric-gated nanoplasmonic devices based on graphene sheets clamped …

Vibrational properties of mixed crystals

M Rüsing, S Sanna, S Neufeld, G Berth, WG Schmidt… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Congruent lithium niobate and lithium tantalate mixed crystals have been grown over the
complete compositional range with the Czochralski method. The structural and vibrational …