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Control of Self-Polarization in Doped Single Crystalline Pb(Zr0.5Ti0.5)O-3 Thin Films

We report the control of self-polarization of monocrystalline Lead Zirconate Titanate thin films grown by Pulsed laser deposition by doping and bottom interface. Doped and undoped films grown on ScO2 terminated surface of polar PSO substrate have developed ...

2022

Theoretical estimation of the linear electro-optic effect in compressively strained c-domain (Ba, Sr)TiO3 thin films using a phenomenological thermodynamic model

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev

The influence of compressive strain on the linear electro-optic (EO) effect in c-domain (BaxSr1-x)TiO3 (BST) thin films was theoretically investigated using a phenomenological thermodynamic model. We considered that the c-domain BST thin films were grown o ...

CERAMIC SOC JAPAN-NIPPON SERAMIKKUSU KYOKAI2019

Flexible polarization rotation at the ferroelectric/metal interface as a seed for domain nucleation

Nava Setter, Ludwig Feigl, Xiankui Wei

2018

Piezoelectric softening by Nb substitution in (Ba,Pb)ZrO

Dragan Damjanovic, Nava Setter, Alberto Biancoli, Nicola Marzari, David Bahati

Donor doping is commonly applied for softening of the piezoelectric and dielectric properties and facilitation of polarization switching in the ubiquitous Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3 [PZT] ceramics. The origin of the donor-dopant effects is not entirely clear. (Pb,Ba)ZrO ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Nanoscale Defect Engineering and the Resulting Effects on Domain Wall Dynamics in Ferroelectric Thin Films

Dragan Damjanovic, Nava Setter, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Ludwig Feigl

Defect engineering is one of the cornerstones of the modern electronics industry. Almost all electronic devices include materials that have been doped by ion bombardment. For materials where crystallinity is essential, such as ferroelectrics, defect type a ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Domain nucleation behavior in ferroelectric films with thin and ultrathin top electrodes versus insulating top layers

Nava Setter, Ludwig Feigl

The effect of varying the thickness of Pt top electrodes made by the electron beam induced deposition technique on the domain nucleation characteristics of Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3 films has been investigated by piezoresponse force microscopy. The advantage of this ex ...

Elsevier Science Sa2017

Dynamics of ferroelectric 180 degrees domain walls at engineered pinning centers

Nava Setter

The interaction between domain walls and pinning centers in ferroelectrics is of great interest from both fundamental and practical points of view. In this work, we show that, counter to intuition, the apparent velocity of domain walls can increase as the ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

Static negative capacitance of a ferroelectric nano-domain nucleus

Nava Setter, Pavel Mokry, Tomas Sluka

Miniaturization of conventional field effect transistors (FETs) approaches the fundamental limits beyond which opening and closing the transistor channel require higher gate voltage swing and cause higher power dissipation and heating. This problem could b ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

Charge screening strategy for domain pattern control in nano-scale ferroelectric systems

Nava Setter, Tomas Sluka

Strain engineering is a widespread strategy used to enhance performance of devices based on semiconductor thin films. In ferroelectrics strain engineering is used to control the domain pattern: When an epitaxial film is biaxially compressed, e.g. due to la ...

Nature Research2017

The variation of PbTiO3 bandgap at ferroelectric phase transition

Nava Setter

Optical properties of the PbTiO3 thin films fabricated by chemical solution deposition have been measured with variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry in the spectral range of 1-6 eV and in the temperature interval from room temperature to 950 K. The opt ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Internal electrical and strain fields influence on the electrical tunability of epitaxial Ba0.7Sr0.3TiO3 thin films

Nava Setter, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Sarunas Bagdzevicius, Barbara Maraston Fraygola

Perpetual demand for higher transfer speed and ever increasing miniaturization of radio and microwave telecommunication devices demands new materials with high electrical tunability. We have investigated built in electrical and strain fields' influence on ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Neel-like domain walls in ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3 single crystals

Nava Setter, Tomas Sluka, Xiankui Wei

In contrast to the flexible rotation of magnetization direction in ferromagnets, the spontaneous polarization in ferroelectric materials is highly confined along the symmetry-allowed directions. Accordingly, chirality at ferroelectric domain walls was trea ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Controlled creation and displacement of charged domain walls in ferroelectric thin films

Nava Setter, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Tomas Sluka, Ludwig Feigl, Arnaud Robert André Crassous

Charged domain walls in ferroelectric materials are of high interest due to their potential use in nanoelectronic devices. While previous approaches have utilized complex scanning probe techniques or frustrative poling here we show the creation of charged ...

Nature Research2016

Strain Engineering of Electrical Conductivity in Epitaxial Thin Ba0.7Sr0.3TiO3 Film Heterostructures

Nava Setter, Sarunas Bagdzevicius, Barbara Maraston Fraygola

Thin epitaxial films have a great potential to be used in real life applications, such as oxide-on-silicon. However, they often contain a large amount of defects, leading to an enhanced electrical conductivity. This could be desirable in some applications ...

Lithuanian Physical Soc2016

Engineered a/c domain patterns in multilayer (110) epitaxial Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3 thin films: Impact on domain compliance and piezoelectric properties

Nava Setter, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Mahamudu Mtebwa, Andrea Mazzalai, Arnaud Robert André Crassous

While there is extensive literature on the influence of both compressive and tensile strain on the domain patterns of (001) tetragonal ferroelectric thin films, little is known regarding domain engineering in (110) films. The primary reason is the absence ...

2016

Structure and pressure-induced ferroelectric phase transition in antiphase domain boundaries of strontium titanate from first principles

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Alexander Kvasov

In this work, using zero kelvin ab initio calculations, we revisit the structure and ferroelectric phase transition in antiphase domain boundaries (APBs) in SrTiO3 (STO), which has been previously addressed in terms of a phenomenological approach. We confi ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

What is a ferroelectric-a materials designer perspective

Nava Setter

Ferroelectrics are usually defined as polar materials that display polarisation hysteresis. This is a functional definition. A structural definition exists too, based solely on symmetry arguments. The structural definition, useful e.g. for design of new ma ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

Piezoelectric enhancement under negative pressure

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Jin Wang, Tomas Sluka, Alexander Kvasov

Enhancement of ferroelectric properties, both spontaneous polarization and Curie temperature under negative pressure had been predicted in the past from first principles and recently confirmed experimentally. In contrast, piezoelectric properties are expec ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Single-domain (110) PbTiO3 thin films: Thermodynamic theory and experiments

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Brahim Dkhil, Mahamudu Mtebwa

We report the thermodynamic potential for single-domain (110) thin films epitaxially grown on dissimilar cubic substrates. Using different sets of paraelectric phase elastic compliance coefficients of PbTiO3 single crystal, calculated from the experimental ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Asymmetric structure of 90 deg. domain walls and interactions with defects in PbTiO3

Dragan Damjanovic, Nava Setter, Nicola Marzari, Anand Chandrasekaran, Ludwig Feigl, Xiankui Wei

We investigate the atomistic structure of ferroelastic-ferroelectric 90 degrees domain walls in PbTiO3 with first-principles calculations and high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy. We find sharp discontinuities in the variation of latti ...

Amer Physical Soc2016