TY - JOUR
AU - C.S Ganpule
AU - V Nagarajan
AU - S.B Ogale
AU - A.L Roytburd
AU - E.D Williams
AU - Ramamoorthy Ramesh
AB - The time-dependent relaxation of the remanent polarization in epitaxial lead zirconate titanate (PbZr0.2Ti0.8O3) ferroelectric thin films, containing a uniform two-dimensional grid of 90° domains (c axis in the plane of the film), is examined using piezoresponse microscopy. The 90° domain walls preferentially nucleate the 180° reverse domains during relaxation, with a significant directional anisotropy. Relaxation occurs through the nucleation and growth of reverse domains, which subsequently coalesce and consume the entire region as a function of time. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.
BT - Applied Physics Letters
DO - 10.1063/1.1322051
LA - eng
M1 - 20
N1 - cited By 79
N2 - The time-dependent relaxation of the remanent polarization in epitaxial lead zirconate titanate (PbZr0.2Ti0.8O3) ferroelectric thin films, containing a uniform two-dimensional grid of 90° domains (c axis in the plane of the film), is examined using piezoresponse microscopy. The 90° domain walls preferentially nucleate the 180° reverse domains during relaxation, with a significant directional anisotropy. Relaxation occurs through the nucleation and growth of reverse domains, which subsequently coalesce and consume the entire region as a function of time. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.
PB - American Institute of Physics Inc.
PY - 2000
SP - 3275
EP - 3277
T2 - Applied Physics Letters
TI - Domain nucleation and relaxation kinetics in ferroelectric thin films
VL - 77
SN - 00036951
ER -