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Orientations of Low-Energy Domain Walls in Perovskites with Oxygen Octahedral Tilts
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
  • Fei Xue
  • Yijia Gu, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Linyun Liang
  • Yi Wang
  • Long-Qing Chen
Abstract

Many applications of ferroic materials, such as data storage and spintronics, are achieved through the control and manipulation of their domain wall (DW) orientations and configurations. Here we propose a rotational compatibility condition to identify low-energy DWs in perovskites with oxygen octahedral tilt instability. It is derived from the strong DW energy anisotropy arising from the rigidity and corner-sharing feature of the octahedral network. We analyze quantitatively the DWs in SrTiO3 and explain successfully the unusual ferroelectric DW width and energy in BiFeO3.

Department(s)
Materials Science and Engineering
Comments

This work is supported by the National Science Foundation MRSEC under Grants No. DMR-0820404 and No. DMR-1210588.

This article is corrected by Erratum: Orientations of Low-Energy Domain Walls in Perovskites with Oxygen Octahedral Tilts (Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (2014) 90 (220101)).

Keywords and Phrases
  • Ferroelectric materials,
  • Ferroelectricity,
  • Ferroelectric tunnel
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2014 American Physical Society (APS), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
12-1-2014
Publication Date
01 Dec 2014
Citation Information
Fei Xue, Yijia Gu, Linyun Liang, Yi Wang, et al.. "Orientations of Low-Energy Domain Walls in Perovskites with Oxygen Octahedral Tilts" Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Vol. 90 Iss. 22 (2014) ISSN: 1098-0121; 1550-235X
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/yijia-gu/60/