Electroelastic fields in artificially created vortex cores in epitaxial BiFeO3 thin films

B. Winchester; N. Balke; X. X. Cheng; A. N. Morozovska; S. Kalinin; L. Q. Chen

doi:10.1063/1.4927750

Electroelastic fields in artificially created vortex cores in epitaxial BiFeO₃ thin films

B. Winchester, N. Balke, X. X. Cheng, A. N. Morozovska, S. Kalinin, L. Q. Chen

Materials Science and Engineering

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We employ phase-field modeling to explore the elastic properties of artificially created 1-D domain walls in (001)_p-oriented BiFeO₃ thin films, composed of a junction of the four polarization variants, all with the same out-of-plane polarization. It was found that these junctions exhibit peculiarly high electroelastic fields induced by the neighboring ferroelastic/ferroelectric domains. The vortex core exhibits a volume expansion, while the anti-vortex core is more compressive. Possible ways to control the electroelastic field, such as varying material constant and applying transverse electric field, are also discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	052903
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	107
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4927750
State	Published - Aug 3 2015

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