TY - JOUR
KW - Thin films
KW - Electron microscopy
KW - Polarization
KW - Epitaxial growth
KW - Polarization switching
KW - Bismuth compounds
KW - Ferroelectricity
KW - Strontium compounds
KW - Ferroelectric domain structure
KW - Piezoelectric force microscopy (PEM)
KW - Piezoresponse data
KW - Vectors
AU - F Zavaliche
AU - P Shafer
AU - Ramamoorthy Ramesh
AU - M.P Cruz
AU - R.R Das
AU - D.M Kim
AU - C.B Eom
AB - Ferroelectric domain structure and polarization switching in an epitaxial BiFe O3 film grown on a 0.8° miscut SrTi O3 (001) substrate were studied by piezoelectric force microscopy. The film shows a two-domain stripe pattern, with the polarization vectors oriented along two 〈111〉 axes which form an angle of 71°. Polarization switching was investigated by locally poling the film. By combining the perpendicular and in-plane piezoresponse data we found that polarization rotates by 71° and 109°, while 180° switching is mainly observed at low fields. © 2005 American Institute of Physics.
BT - Applied Physics Letters
DO - 10.1063/1.2149180
LA - eng
M1 - 25
N1 - cited By 102
N2 - Ferroelectric domain structure and polarization switching in an epitaxial BiFe O3 film grown on a 0.8° miscut SrTi O3 (001) substrate were studied by piezoelectric force microscopy. The film shows a two-domain stripe pattern, with the polarization vectors oriented along two 〈111〉 axes which form an angle of 71°. Polarization switching was investigated by locally poling the film. By combining the perpendicular and in-plane piezoresponse data we found that polarization rotates by 71° and 109°, while 180° switching is mainly observed at low fields. © 2005 American Institute of Physics.
PY - 2005
SP - 1
EP - 3
T2 - Applied Physics Letters
TI - Polarization switching in epitaxial BiFeO 3 films
VL - 87
SN - 00036951
ER -