Abstract
Physical phenomena involving domain walls in BiFeO3 as nanoscale functional elements have recently received considerable attention. Their nanoscopic size and flexible arrangement using thin film growth engineering solutions and applied external electric fields offer unique possibilities for novel concepts in complex oxide nanoelectronics.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Imada, M., Fujimori, A., Tokura, Y.: Metal-insulator transitions. Rev. Mod. Phys. 70, 1039–1263 (1998)
Ogale, S.B.: Thin Films and Heterostructures for Oxide Electronics. Springer, New York (2005)
Ohtomo, A., Muller, D.A., Grazul, J.L., Wang, H.Y.: Artificial charge-modulationin atomic-scale perovskite titanate superlattices. Nature 419, 378–380 (2002)
Dagotto, E.: When oxides meet face to face. Science 318, 1076–1077 (2007)
Mannhart, J., Schlom, D.G.: Oxide interfaces—an opportunity for electronics. Science 327, 1607–1611 (2010)
Yamada, H., et al.: Engineered interface of magnetic oxides. Science 395, 646–648 (2004)
Zubko, P., Gariglio, S., Gabay, M., Ghosez, P., Triscone, J.-M.: Interface physics in complex oxide heterostructures. Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 2, 141–165 (2011)
Heber, J.: Enter the oxides. Nature 459, 28–30 (2009)
Seidel et al.: (submitted)
Zhang, J.X., Xiang, B., He, Q.: Large field-induced strains in a lead-free piezoelectric material. Nat. Nanotechnol. 6, 98 (2011)
Eng, L.M.: Nanoscale domain engineering and characterization of ferroelectric domains. Nanotechnology 10, 405 (1999)
Kalinin, S.V., et al.: Local polarization dynamics in ferroelectric materials. Rep. Prog. Phys. 73, 056502 (2010)
Gruverman, A., Rodriguez, B.J., Dehoff, C., Waldrep, J.D., Kingon, A.I., Nemanich, R.J., Cross, J.S.: Direct studies of domain switching dynamics in thin film ferroelectric capacitors. Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 082902 (2005)
Rodriguez, B.J., Jesse, S., Baddorf, A.P., Zhao, T., Chu, Y.H., Ramesh, R., Eliseev, E.A., Morozovska, A.N., Kalinin, S.V.: Spatially resolved mapping of polarization switching behavior in nanoscale ferroelectrics. Nanotechnology 18, 405701 (2007)
Jungk, T., Hoffmann, A., Soergel, E.: Impact of elasticity on the piezoresponse of adjacent ferroelectric domains investigated by scanning force microscopy. J. Appl. Phys. 102, 084102 (2007)
Choudhury, S., et al.: The influence of 180° ferroelectric domain wall width on the threshold field for wall motion. J. Appl. Phys. 10(4), 084107 (2008)
Yang, C.-H., Seidel, J., Kim, S.Y., Rossen, P.B., Yu, P., Gajek, M., Chu, Y.-H., Martin, L.W., Holcomb, M.B., He, Q., Maksymovych, P., Balke, N., Kalinin, S.V., Baddorf, A.P., Basu, S.R., Scullin, M.L., Ramesh, R.: Electric modulation of conduction in multiferroic Ca-doped BifeO3 films. Nat. Mater. 8, 485 (2009)
Seidel, J., et al.: Prominent electrochromism through vacancy-order melting. Nat. Commun. 3, 799 (2011)
Balke, N., Jesse, S., Morozovska, A., Eliseev, E., Chung, D., Kim, Y., Adamczyk, L., Garcia, R.: Nanoscale mapping of ion diffusion in a lithium-ion battery cathode. Nat. Nanotechnol. 5, 749–754 (2010)
Kumar, A., Ciucci, F., Morozovska, A.N., Kalinin, S.V., Jesse, S.: Nanoscale electrochemistry: Feeling the strain. Nat. Chem. 3, 707–713 (2011)
Rodriguez, B.J., Chu, Y.H., Ramesh, R., Kalinin, S.V.: Ferroelectric domain wall pinning at a bicrystal grain boundary in bismuth ferrite. Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 142901 (2008)
Watanabe, Y.: Review of Resistance Switching of Ferroelectrics and Oxides in Quest for Unconventional Electronic Mechanisms. Ferroelectrics 349, 190 (2007)
Seidel, J., Martin, L.W., He, Q., Zhan, Q., Chu, Y.-H., Rother, A., Hawkridge, M.E., Maksymovych, P., Yu, P., Gajek, M., Balke, N., Kalinin, S.V., Gemming, S., Wang, F., Catalan, G., Scott, J.F., Spaldin, N.A., Orenstein, J., Ramesh, R.: Conduction at domain walls in oxide multiferroics. Nat. Mater. 8, 229 (2009)
Seidel, J., Maksymovych, P., Katan, A.J., Batra, Y., He, Q., Baddorf, A.P., Kalinin, S.V., Yang, C.-H., Yang, J.-C., Chu, Y.-H., Salje, E.K.H., Wormeester, H., Salmeron, M., Ramesh, R.: Domain wall conductivity in La-doped BiFeO3. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 197603 (2010)
Fan, W., Cao, J., Seidel, J., Gu, Y., Yim, J.W., Barrett, C., Yu, K.M., Ji, J., Ramesh, R., Chen, L.Q., Wu, J.: Large kinetic asymmetry in the metal-insulator transition nucleated at localized and extended defects. Phys. Rev. B 83, 235102 (2011)
Maggio-Aprile, I., Rennet, C., Erb, A., Walker, E., Fischer, O.: Critical currents approaching the depairing limit at a twin boundary in YBa2Cu3O(7-δ). Nature 390, 487–490 (1997)
Wiessner, A., Kirschner, J., Schafer, G., Berghaus, T.H.: Design considerations and performance of a combined scanning tunneling and scanning electron microscope. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 68, 3790 (1997)
Yang, B., Park, N.J., Seo, B.I., Oh, Y.H., Kim, S.J., Hong, S.K., Lee, S.S., Park, Y.J.: Nanoscale imaging of grain orientations and ferroelectric domains in (Bi1−xLax)4Ti3O12 films for ferroelectric memories. Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 062902 (2005)
Garcia, R.E., Huey, B.D., Blendell, J.E.: Virtual piezoforce microscopy of polycrystalline ferroelectric films. J. Appl. Phys. 100, 064105 (2006)
Chiu, Y.-P., Chen, Y.-T., Huang, B.-C., Shih, M.-C., Yang, J.-C., He, Q., Liang, C.-W., Seidel, J., Chen, Y.-C., Ramesh, R., Chu, Y.-H.: The evolution of local electronic structure across multiferroic domain walls. Adv. Mater. 23, 1530 (2011)
Lubk, A., et al.: Evidence of sharp and diffuse domain walls in BiFeO3 by means of unit-cell-wise strain and polarization maps obtained with high resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 047601 (2012)
Farokhipoor, S., Noheda, B.: Conduction through 71° domain walls in BiFeO3 thin films. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 127601 (2011)
Seidel, J., Singh-Bhalla, G., He, Q., Yang, S.-Y., Chu, Y.-H., Ramesh, R.: Domain wall functionality in BiFeO3. Phase Transit. 86, 53–66 (2013). doi:10.1080/01411594.2012.695371
Choi, T., et al.: Insulating interlocked ferroelectric and structural antiphase domain walls in multiferroic YMnO3. Nat. Mater. 9, 253–258 (2010)
Meier, D., Seidel, J., Cano, A., Delaney, K., Kumagai, Y., Mostovoy, M., Spaldin, N.A., Ramesh, R., Fiebig, M.: Anisotropic conductance at improper ferroelectric domain walls. Nat. Mater. 11, 284 (2012)
Palai, R., Katiyar, R.S., Schmid, H., Tissot, P., Clark, S.J., Robertson, J., Redfern, S.A.T., Catalan, G., Scott, J.F.: β Phase and γ-β metal-insulator transition in multiferroic BiFeO3. Phys. Rev. B 77, 014110 (2008)
Lubk, A., Gemming, S., Spaldin, N.A.: First-principles study of ferroelectric domain walls in multiferroic bismuth ferrite. Phys. Rev. B 80, 104110 (2009)
Meyer, B., Vanderbilt, D.: Ab initio study of ferroelectric domain walls in PbTiO3. Phys. Rev. B 65, 104111 (2002)
Hong, L., Soh, A.K., Du, Q.G., Li, J.Y.: Interaction of O vacancies and domain structures in single crystal BaTiO3: two-dimensional ferroelectric model. Phys. Rev. B 7(7), 094104 (2008)
Borisevich, A.Y., et al.: Mapping octahedral tilts and polarization across a domain wall in BiFeO3 from Z-contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy image atomic column shape analysis. ACS Nano 4, 6071 (2010)
Guyonnet, J., Gaponenko, I., Gariglio, S., Paruch, P.: Conduction at domain walls in insulating Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 thin films. Adv. Mater. 23, 5377 (2011)
Schröder, M.: Conducting domain walls in lithium niobate single crystals. Adv. Funct. Mater. 22, 3936 (2012)
Zhao, T., Scholl, A., Zavaliche, F., Lee, K., Barry, M., Doran, A., Cruz, M.P., Chu, Y.H., Ederer, C., Spaldin, N.A., Das, R.R., Kim, D.M., Baek, S.H., Eom, C.B., Ramesh, R.: Electrical control of antiferromagnetic domains in multiferroic BiFeO3 films at room temperature. Nat. Mater. 5, 823 (2006)
Lebeugle, D., Colson, D., Forget, A., Viret, M., Bataille, A.M., Gukasov, A.: Electric-field-induced spin flop in BiFeO3 single crystals at room temperature. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 227602 (2008)
Idlis, B.G., Usmanov, M.S.: Effect of domain structure on the energy spectrum of narrow-gap ferroelectric semiconductors. Pis’ma Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 56(5), 268–271 (1992)
Xiao, Y., Shenoy, V.B., Bhattacharya, K.: Depletion layers and domain walls in semiconducting ferroelectric thin films. Phys. Rev. Lett. 9(5), 247603 (2005)
Gureev, T.M.Y., Tagantsev, A.K., Setter, N.: Structure and energy of charged domain walls in ferroelectrics. 18th IEEE ISAF Proceedings, Xian (2009)
Aird, A., Salje, E.K.H.: Sheet superconductivity in twin walls: experimental evidence of WO3-x. J. Phys. Condens. Matter 10, L377 (1998)
Scullin, M.L., et al.: Acta Mater. 58, 457 (2010)
Gopalan, V., Dierolf, V., Scrymgeour, D.A.: Defect–domain wall interactions in trigonal ferroelectrics. Annu. Rev. Mater. Res. 37, 449–489 (2007)
Shilo, D., Ravichandran, G., Bhattacharya, K.: Investigation of twin-wall structure at the nanometre scale using atomic force microscopy. Nat. Mater. 3, 453–457 (2004)
Lee, W.T., Salje, E.K.H., Bismayer, U.: Influence of point defects on the distribution of twin wall widths. Phys. Rev. B 7(2), 104116 (2005)
Salje, E.K.H., Zhang, H.: Domain boundary engineering. Phase Transit. 82, 6 (2009)
Zeng, H.R., et al.: Domain wall thickness variations of ferroelectric BaMgF4 single crystals in the tip fields of an atomic force microscope. Phys. Status Solidi (RRL) 2, 3 (2008)
He, L., Vanderbilt, D.: First-principles study of oxygen-vacancy pinning of domain walls in PbTiO3. Phys. Rev. B 6(8), 134103 (2003)
Lee, Y.-H., Wu, J.-M., Lai, C.-H.: Influence of La doping in multiferroic properties of BiFeO3 thin films. Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 042903 (2006)
Yang, C.-H., Kan, D., Takeuchi, I., Nagarajan, V., Seidel, J.: Doping BiFeO3: approaches and enhanced functionality. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 14, 15953–15962 (2012). doi:10.1039/C2CP43082G
Qi, X., Dho, J., Tomov, R., Blamire, M.G., MacManus-Driscoll, J.L.: Greatly reduced leakage current and conduction mechanism in aliovalent-ion-doped BiFeO3. Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 062903 (2005)
Kim, J.K., Kim, S.S., Kim, W.-J., Bhalla, A.S., Guo, R.: Enhanced ferroelectric properties of Cr-doped BiFeO3 thin films grown by chemical solution deposition. Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 132901 (2006)
Ko, K.T., Jung, M.H., Lee, J.H., Woo, C.S., Chu, K., Seidel, J., Chu, Y.H., Jeong, Y.H., Ramesh, R., Park, J.H., Yang, C.-H.: Concurrent transition of ferroelectric and magnetic ordering around room temperature. Nat. Commun. 2, 567 (2011)
Ramirez, M., et al.: Spin-charge-lattice coupling through resonant multimagnon excitations in multiferroic BiFeO3. Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 161905 (2009)
Ramirez, M.O., et al.: Two-phonon coupling to the antiferromagnetic phase transition in multiferroic BiFeO3. Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 022511 (2008)
Zhou, J., Trassin, M., He, Q., Tamura, N., Kunz, N., Cheng, C., Zhang, J., Liang, W.-I., Seidel, J., Hsin, C., Chu, Y.-H., Wu, J.: Directed assembly of nanoscale phase variants in highly strained BiFeO3 thin films. J. Appl. Phys. 112, 064102 (2012)
Yang, S.-Y., Seidel, J., Byrnes, S.J., Shafer, P., Yang, C.-H., Rossell, M.D., Yu, P., Chu, Y.-H., Scott, J.F., Ager III, J.W., Martin, L.W., Ramesh, R.: Above bandgap voltages from ferroelectric photovoltaic devices. Nat. Nanotechnol. 5, 143 (2010)
Seidel, J., Fu, D., Yang, S.-Y., Alarcòn-Lladò, E., Wu, J., Ramesh, R., Ager, J.W.: Efficient photovoltaic current generation at ferroelectric domain walls. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126805 (2011)
Seidel, J., Yang, S.-Y., Alarcòn-Lladò, E., Ager, J.W., Ramesh, R.: Nanoscale probing of high photovoltages at 109° domain walls. Ferroelectrics 433, 123 (2012)
Kudo, A., Miseki, Y.: Heterogeneous photocatalyst materials for water splitting. Chem. Soc. Rev. 38, 253 (2009)
Reyren, N., Thiel, S., Caviglia, A.D., Fitting Kourkoutis, L., Hammerl, G., Richter, C., Schneider, C.W., Kopp, T., Rüetschi, A.-S., Jaccard, D., Gaboy, M., Muller, D.A., Triscone, J.-M., Mannhart, J.: Superconducting Interfaces Between Insulating Oxides. Science 317, 1196–1199 (2007)
Logvenov, G., Gozar, A., Bozovic, I.: High-Temperature Superconductivity in a Single Copper-Oxygen Plane. Science 326, 699–702 (2009)
Ye, J.T., Inoue, S., Kobayashi, K., Kasahara, Y., Yuan, H.T., Shimotani, H., Iwasa, Y.: Liquid-gated interface superconductivity on an atomically flat film. Nat. Mater. 9, 125–128 (2010)
Takahashi, K.S., Kawasaki, M., Tokura, Y.: Interface ferromagnetism in oxide superlattices of CaMnO3/CaRuO3. Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 1324–1326 (2001)
Koida, T., Lippmaa, M., Fukumura, T., Itaka, K., Matsumoto, Y., Kawasaki, M., Koinuma, H.: Effect of A-site cation ordering on the magnetoelectric properties in [(LaMnO3)m/(SrMnO3)m]n artificial superlattices. Phys. Rev. B 66, 144418 (2002)
Chakhalian, J., Freeland, J.W., Habermeier, H.U., Cristiani, G., Khaliullin, G., Veenendaalvan, M., Keimer, B.: Orbital reconstruction and covalent bonding at an oxide interface. Science 318, 1114–1117 (2007)
Lyuksyutov, I., Pokrovsky, V.: Ferromagnet-superconductor hybrids. Adv. Phys. 54, 67–136 (2005)
Tsymbal, E.Y., Kohlstedt, H.: Tunneling across a ferroelectric. Science 313, 181 (2006)
Zhuravlev, M.Y., Sabirianov, R., Jaswal, S.S., Tsymbal, E.Y.: Giant electroresistance in ferroelectric tunnel junctions. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 246802 (2005)
Dagotto, E.: Nanoscale Phase Separation and Colossal Magnetoresistance. Springer, New York (2003)
Salafranca, J., Yu, R., Dagotto, E.: Conducting Jahn-Teller domain walls in undoped manganites. Phys. Rev. B 8, 245122 (2010)
Goltsev, A.V., Pisarev, R.V., Lottermoser, T., Fiebig, M.: Structure and interaction of antiferromagnetic domain walls in hexagonal YMnO3. Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 177204 (2003)
Gareeva, Z.V., Zvezdin, A.K.: Private communication (2011)
Daraktchiev, M., Catalan, G., Scott, J.F.: Landau theory of domain wall magnetoelectricity. Phys. Rev. B 81, 224118 (2010)
Maksymovych, P., Seidel, J., Chu, Y.-H., Baddorf, A., Wu, P., Chen, L.-Q., Kalinin, S.V., Ramesh, R.: Dynamic conductivity of ferroelectric domain walls. Nano Lett. 11, 1906 (2011)
He et al.: Magnetotransport at domain walls in BiFeO3. Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 067203 (2012)
Hong, J., Catalan, G., Fang, D.N., Artacho, E., Scott, J.F.: Topology of the polarization field in ferroelectric nanowires from first principles. Phys. Rev. B 81, 172101 (2010)
Balke et al.: Enhanced electric conductivity at ferroelectric vortex cores in BiFeO3. Nat. Phys. 8, 81 (2012)
Seidel, J.: Domain walls as nanoscale functional elements. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 3, 2905 (2012)
Bea, H., Paruch, P.: Multiferroics: a way forward along domain walls. Nat. Mater. 8, 168–169 (2009)
Skumryev, V., Laukhin, V., Fina, I., Marti, X., Sanchez, F., Gospodinov, M., Fontcuberta, J.: Magnetization reversal by electric-field decoupling of magnetic and ferroelectric domain walls in multiferroic-based heterostructures. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 057206 (2011)
Catalan, G., et al.: Domain wall nanoelectronics. Rev. Mod. Phys. 84, 119 (2012)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Seidel, J. (2013). Electronic and Optical Properties of Domain Walls and Phase Boundaries in Bismuth Ferrite. In: Li, H., Wang, Z. (eds) Bismuth-Containing Compounds. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 186. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8121-8_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8121-8_13
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-8120-1
Online ISBN: 978-1-4614-8121-8
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials ScienceChemistry and Material Science (R0)