Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1664015 | Thin Solid Films | 2016 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Controlling the ferroelectric polarization at macroscopic or microscopic levels is crucial in the framework of the development of ferroelectric materials used in yet challenging photo-electrochemical (PEC) cells and spintronic applications. We report here on polarization methods allowing to electrically polarize prototypical samples of BaTiO3 (001) films. Epitaxial single crystalline layers were grown up to a thickness of 25Â nm by atomic oxygen assisted molecular beam epitaxy on 1Â at.% Nb doped SrTiO3 (001) single crystals. The samples were both microscopically and macroscopically polarized using Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and electrochemical poling in an electrolyte respectively. In addition we demonstrate the possibility to retrieve a quasi-native mixed ferroelectric polarization state after annealing. These polarization methods may be applied to many other ferroelectric thin films.
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Authors
S. Datta, M. Rioult, D. Stanescu, H. Magnan, A. Barbier,