Tip-induced domain growth on the non-polar cuts of lithium niobate single-crystals / Alikin D. O.,Ievlev A. V.,Turygin A. P.,Lobov A. I.,Kalinin S. V.,Shur V. Ya. // APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS. - 2015. - V. 106, l. 18.

ISSN/EISSN:

0003-6951 / 1077-3118

Type:

Article

Abstract:

Currently, ferroelectric materials with designed domain structures are considered as a perspective material for new generation of photonic, data storage, and data processing devices. Application of external electric field is the most convenient way of the domain structure formation. Lots of papers are devoted to the investigation of domain kinetics on polar surface of crystals while the forward growth remains one of the most mysterious stages due to lack of experimental methods allowing to study it. Here, we performed tip-induced polarization reversal on X-and Y-non-polar cuts in single-crystal of congruent lithium niobate which allows us to study the forward growth with high spatial resolution. The revealed difference in the shape and length of domains induced on X-and Y-cuts is beyond previously developed theoretical approaches used for the theoretical consideration of the domains growth at non-polar ferroelectric surfaces. To explain experimental results, we used kinetic approach with anisotropy of screening efficiency along different crystallographic directions. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.

Author keywords:

ATOMIC-FORCE MICROSCOPY; FERROELECTRIC DOMAINS; POLARIZATION; SURFACE; LINBO3; LITAO3

DOI:

10.1063/1.4919872

Web of Science ID:

ISI:000354259200033

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Поле	Значение
Month	MAY 4
Publisher	AMER INST PHYSICS
Address	1305 WALT WHITMAN RD, STE 300, MELVILLE, NY 11747-4501 USA
Language	English
Article-Number	182902
EISSN	1077-3118
Keywords-Plus	ATOMIC-FORCE MICROSCOPY; FERROELECTRIC DOMAINS; POLARIZATION; SURFACE; LINBO3; LITAO3
Research-Areas	Physics
Web-of-Science-Categories	Physics, Applied
ResearcherID-Numbers	Kalinin, Sergei/I-9096-2012 Ievlev, Anton/H-3678-2012 Alikin, Denis/K-7914-2015 Shur, Vladimir/J-9078-2015
ORCID-Numbers	Kalinin, Sergei/0000-0001-5354-6152 Ievlev, Anton/0000-0003-3645-0508 Alikin, Denis/0000-0001-9330-7463 Turygin, Anton/0000-0002-4843-0662
Funding-Acknowledgement	Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation {[}UID RFMEFI59414X0011]; UrFU development program; CNMS {[}2013-130]; RFBR {[}13-02-01391-a]; Government of Sverdlovsk region {[}13-02-96041-r-Ural-a]
Funding-Text	The equipment of the Ural Center of Shared Use UrFU has been used. The research was made possible in part by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (UID RFMEFI59414X0011) and in part by UrFU development program with the financial support of young scientists. A portion of this research (A.V.I. and S.V.K.) was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility. V.Y.S., D.O.A., A.I.L., and A.P.T. acknowledge CNMS user proposal (Project 2013-130), RFBR and the Government of Sverdlovsk region (Grant 13-02-96041-r-Ural-a), and RFBR (Grant 13-02-01391-a).
Number-of-Cited-References	30
Usage-Count-Last-180-days	1
Usage-Count-Since-2013	31
Journal-ISO	Appl. Phys. Lett.
Doc-Delivery-Number	CH8AW