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Designing Morphotropic Phase Composition in BiFeO3
Ames Laboratory Accepted Manuscripts
  • Andreas Herklotz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Stefania F. Rus, National Institute for Research and Development in Electrochemistry and Condensed Matter
  • Nina Balke, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Christopher Rouleau, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Er-Jia Guo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Amanda Huon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Santosh KC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Robert Roth, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
  • Xu Yang, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Chirag Vaswani, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Jigang Wang, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Peter P. Orth, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Mathias S. Scheurer, Harvard University
  • Thomas Z. Ward, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Publication Date
2-13-2019
Department
Ames Laboratory; Physics and Astronomy
OSTI ID+
1505299
Report Number
IS-J 9873
DOI
10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04322
Journal Title
Nano Letters
Abstract

In classical morphotropic piezoelectric materials, rhombohedral and tetragonal phase variants can energetically compete to form a mixed phase regime with improved functional properties. While the discovery of morphotropic-like phases in multiferroic BiFeO3 films has broadened this definition, accessing these phase spaces is still typically accomplished through isovalent substitution or heteroepitaxial strain which do not allow for continuous modification of phase composition postsynthesis. Here, we show that it is possible to use low-energy helium implantation to tailor morphotropic phases of epitaxial BiFeO3 films postsynthesis in a continuous and iterative manner. Applying this strain doping approach to morphotropic films creates a new phase space based on internal and external lattice stress that can be seen as an analogue to temperature–composition phase diagrams of classical morphotropic ferroelectric systems.

DOE Contract Number(s)
AC05-00OR22725
Language
en
Publisher
Iowa State University Digital Repository, Ames IA (United States)
Citation Information
Andreas Herklotz, Stefania F. Rus, Nina Balke, Christopher Rouleau, et al.. "Designing Morphotropic Phase Composition in BiFeO3" Vol. 19 Iss. 2 (2019) p. 1033 - 1038
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/peter-orth/28/