Ultrafast Anisotropic Optical Response and Coherent Acoustic Phonon Generation in Polycrystalline BaTiO3-BiFeO3

Brenden A. Magill, Kyoung Duck Park, Yuan Zhou, Anuj Chopra, Deepam Maurya, Shashank Priya, Markus Raschke, Alexey Belyanin, Christopher J. Stanton, Giti A. Khodaparast

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Abstract

We optically study the as-yet little explored multiferroic material, BaTiO3-BiFeO3 (BTO-BFO), that has demonstrated enhanced magnetic properties, a higher DC resistance in comparison to BFO, and improved magnetoelectric coupling. Our studies include: ultrafast time resolved differential reflection, optically induced birefringence, and second-harmonic nano-imaging of the ferroic order. We observe a strong sensitivity to pump/probe polarizations, photo-induced ferroelectric poling on a picosecond timescale, as well as the generation of photo-induced coherent acoustic phonons with a frequency of ∼11 GHz. The second-harmonic generation nano-imaging reveals disordered but distinct ferroelectric domain order, percolating even across grain boundaries in the poly-crystalline thin film.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)229-236
Number of pages8
JournalEnergy Harvesting and Systems
Volume3
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Electrochemistry

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