Fatigue effect in ferroelectric crystals: Growth of the frozen domains / Shur V. Ya,Akhmatkhanov A. R.,Baturin I. S. // JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS. - 2012. - V. 111, l. 12.

ISSN/EISSN:

0021-8979 / 1089-7550

Type:

Article

Abstract:

The model of the fatigue effect during cyclic switching caused by growth of the frozen domain area with charged domain walls has been proposed. It was claimed on the basis of the previous experimental results that for switching in increasing field the frozen domain area started to grow at the given sub-threshold field value and stopped at the threshold field. The influence of the shape and frequency of the field pulses used for cyclic switching has been considered. The uniaxial ferroelectric stoichiometric lithium tantalate single crystals produced by vapor transport equilibration with record low value of coercive field have been chosen as a model material for experimental verification of the model. The formation of the charged domain walls as a result of cyclic switching has been revealed by analysis of the domain images obtained by optical and Raman confocal microscopy. It has been shown that the fatigue degree is equal to the fraction of the frozen domain area. The experimental dependence of the switched charge on the cycle number has been successfully fitted by modified Kolmogorov-Avrami formula. The experimentally observed frequency independence of fatigue profile for rectangular pulses and frequency dependence for triangular pulses has been explained by proposed model. VC 2012 American Institute of Physics. {[}http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4729834]

Author keywords:

CONGRUENT LITHIUM-NIOBATE; THIN-FILM CAPACITORS; SINGLE-CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION FATIGUE; TANTALATE FAMILY; KINETIC APPROACH; FINITE SYSTEMS; MODEL; SUPPRESSION; TITANATE

DOI:

10.1063/1.4729834

Web of Science ID:

ISI:000305832100104

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Поле	Значение
Month	JUN 15
Publisher	AMER INST PHYSICS
Address	1305 WALT WHITMAN RD, STE 300, MELVILLE, NY 11747-4501 USA
Language	English
Article-Number	124111
EISSN	1089-7550
Keywords-Plus	CONGRUENT LITHIUM-NIOBATE; THIN-FILM CAPACITORS; SINGLE-CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION FATIGUE; TANTALATE FAMILY; KINETIC APPROACH; FINITE SYSTEMS; MODEL; SUPPRESSION; TITANATE
Research-Areas	Physics
Web-of-Science-Categories	Physics, Applied
Author-Email	vladimir.shur@usu.ru
ResearcherID-Numbers	Akhmatkhanov, Andrei/A-8072-2010 Baturin, Ivan/B-1164-2008 Shur, Vladimir/J-9078-2015
ORCID-Numbers	Akhmatkhanov, Andrei/0000-0002-2802-9134 Baturin, Ivan/0000-0002-7033-6103
Funding-Acknowledgement	RFBR {[}10-02-96042-r-Ural-a, 10-02-00627-a, 11-02-91066-CNRS-a, 11-02-91174-NSFC\_a]; Ministry of Education and Science {[}16.552 11 7020]
Funding-Text	The research was made possible in part by RFBR (Grants 10-02-96042-r-Ural-a, 10-02-00627-a, 11-02-91066-CNRS-a, 11-02-91174-NSFC\_a) and by Ministry of Education and Science (Contract 16.552 11 7020).
Number-of-Cited-References	45
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Journal-ISO	J. Appl. Phys.
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