Strain control of domain-wall stability in epitaxial BiFeO3 (110) films

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Journal Article
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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.217601
Abstract
We have studied the stability of domains and domain walls in multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films using a combination of piezoelectric force microscopy and phase-field simulations. We have discovered that a film-substrate misfit strain may result in a drastically different thermodynamic stability of two parallel domain walls with the same orientation. A fundamental understanding of the underlying physics, the stress distribution in a domain structure, leads to a novel approach to control the ferroelastic domain stability in the multiferroic BiFeO3 system. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
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Journal
Physical Review Letters
Volume
99
Year of Publication
2007
Number
21
Publisher
American Physical Society
ISSN Number
00319007
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