Néel-like domain walls in ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 single crystals

Xian-Kui Wei; Chun-Lin Jia; Tomas Sluka; Bi-Xia Wang; Zuo-Guang Ye; Nava Setter

doi:10.1038/ncomms12385

Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Néel-like domain walls in ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 single crystals

Xian-Kui Wei,
Chun-Lin Jia,
Tomas Sluka,
Bi-Xia Wang,
Zuo-Guang Ye,
Nava Setter

Affiliations

Xian-Kui Wei: Ceramics Laboratory, EPFL-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Chun-Lin Jia: Peter Grünberg Institute and Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Tomas Sluka: Ceramics Laboratory, EPFL-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Bi-Xia Wang: Department of Chemistry and 4D LABS, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
Zuo-Guang Ye: Department of Chemistry and 4D LABS, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
Nava Setter: Ceramics Laboratory, EPFL-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12385
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Flexible rotation of spontaneous polarization at ferroelectric domain walls is predicted in theory but lacks evidence from experiment. Here, Wei et al. image a Néel-like domain wall in Ti-rich ferroelectric Pb(Zr1−xTix)O3crystals, providing insight in exploring chiral domain walls in ferroelectrics.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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