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An optical method for characterizing domain wall motions and ferroelectric hysteresis in tetragonal Mn:Fe:KTN co-doped crystals

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An optical method is proposed to extract the displacement vector of domain wall (DW) sidewise motion from ferroelectric domain configuration pattern on a tetragonal Mn:Fe:KTN crystal. The ferroelectric domain configuration evolution under an external electric field is observed in situ using optical microscope imaging system, and the relative displacement of DW sideways motion between two adjacent electric fields is extracted. By the combination of the new domain length vector extracted, the ferroelectric domain displacement vector as a function of field strength can be obtained; what is more, the hysteresis loop can be achieved during field cycling. The method provides an access to directly manipulating DW motion and exploring the properties of ferroelectric materials from ferroelectric domain configuration pattern.

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This work is supported by Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonic Technology (No. SKLST201505) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (61077072).

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  1. School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China

    Qieni Lu, Bihua Li & Yushan Liao

  2. Key Laboratory of Opto-electronics Information Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, 300072, China

    Qieni Lu, Bihua Li & Yushan Liao

  3. State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, 710119, China

    Zhen Li

  4. School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China

    Haitao Dai

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Lu, Q., Li, B., Li, Z. et al. An optical method for characterizing domain wall motions and ferroelectric hysteresis in tetragonal Mn:Fe:KTN co-doped crystals. J Mater Sci 53, 5987–5996 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-017-1981-x

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