%0 Journal Article %K thin films %K Polarization %K rotation %K Spontaneous polarizations %K Epitaxial films %K Induced polarization %K Thick films %K Thermoanalysis %A H.W Jang %A S.H Baek %A D Ortiz %A C.M Folkman %A R.R Das %A Y.H Chu %A P Shafer %A J.X Zhang %A S Choudhury %A V Vaithyanathan %A Y.B Chen %A D.A Felker %A M.D Biegalski %A M.S Rzchowski %A X.Q Pan %A D.G Schlom %A L.Q Chen %A Ramamoorthy Ramesh %A C.B Eom %B Physical Review Letters %D 2008 %G eng %R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.107602 %T Strain-induced polarization rotation in epitaxial (001) BiFeO3 thin films %V 101 %X Direct measurement of the remanent polarization of high quality (001)-oriented epitaxial BiFeO3 thin films shows a strong strain dependence, even larger than conventional (001)-oriented PbTiO3 films. Thermodynamic analysis reveals that a strain-induced polarization rotation mechanism is responsible for the large change in the out-of-plane polarization of (001) BiFeO3 with biaxial strain while the spontaneous polarization itself remains almost constant. © 2008 The American Physical Society.