Publications by Mahamudu Mtebwa

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

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

Room temperature concurrent formation of ultra-dense arrays of ferroelectric domain walls

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Mahamudu Mtebwa, Petr Yudin, Ludwig Feigl, Konstantin Shapovalov

Properties of ferroelectric domain walls are attractive for future nano- and optoelectronics. An important element is the potential to electrically erase/rewrite domain walls inside working devices. Dense domain wall patterns, formed upon cooling through t ...

American Institute of Physics2015

Monocrystalline PZT thin films : toward controlled growth and controlled domain patterns

Mahamudu Mtebwa

"More with less" has been the motto behind the hardware miniaturization trend in the microelectronics industry since the 1970s. Active research in the growth of oxide films, including ferroelectrics, which started soon after, followed the same trend. Meanw ...

EPFL2015

Effect of elastic compliances and higher order Landau coefficients on the phase diagram of single domain epitaxial Pb(Zr, Ti)O-3 (PZT) thin films

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Mahamudu Mtebwa

We report the qualitative study of the influence of both elastic compliances and higher order terms of Landau free energy potential on the phase diagram of Pb(Zr0.5Ti0.5)O-3 thin films by using a single domain Landau theory. Although the impact of elastic ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Controlled stripes of ultrafine ferroelectric domains

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Igor Stolichnov, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Tomas Sluka, Mahamudu Mtebwa, Petr Yudin, Ludwig Feigl, Xiankui Wei, Konstantin Shapovalov

In the pursuit of ferroic-based (nano) electronics, it is essential to minutely control domain patterns and domain switching. The ability to control domain width, orientation and position is a prerequisite for circuitry based on fine domains. Here, we deve ...

Nature Publishing Group2014