TY - CPAPER KW - Thin films KW - Crystal structure KW - Ferroelectric materials KW - Dielectric materials KW - Permittivity KW - Magnetic domains KW - 180° c-c domain wall KW - 90° a-c domain wall KW - Linear dielectric constant KW - Nonlinear dielectric constant KW - PZT thin films KW - Scanning nonlinear dielectric microscopy AU - Y Cho AU - K Matsuura AU - N Valanoor AU - Ramamoorthy Ramesh AB - Using Scanning Nonlinear Dielectric Microscopy (SNDM) which has attained sub-nanometer resolution, we measured the linear dielectric constant of a-domains and c-domains in the (1,0,0) and (0,0,1) oriented PbZr 0.2 Ti 0.8 O 3 thin film and confirmed that the dielectric constant of a-domain is higher than that of c-domain. Next, we observed 90 domain walls (a-c domain walls) and 180 domain walls (c-c domain walls) and we obtained the minimum value of 180 c-c domain wall thickness was 1.87 nm and 90 a-c domain wall was 2.52 nm. BT - Ferroelectrics DO - 10.1080/00150190390222961 LA - eng N1 - cited By 1 N2 - Using Scanning Nonlinear Dielectric Microscopy (SNDM) which has attained sub-nanometer resolution, we measured the linear dielectric constant of a-domains and c-domains in the (1,0,0) and (0,0,1) oriented PbZr 0.2 Ti 0.8 O 3 thin film and confirmed that the dielectric constant of a-domain is higher than that of c-domain. Next, we observed 90 domain walls (a-c domain walls) and 180 domain walls (c-c domain walls) and we obtained the minimum value of 180 c-c domain wall thickness was 1.87 nm and 90 a-c domain wall was 2.52 nm. PY - 2003 SP - 171 EP - 180 T2 - Ferroelectrics T3 - Ferroelectrics TI - Direct domain wall thickness measurement using scanning nonlinear dielectric microscopy VL - 292 SN - 00150193 ER -