@article{5f4f2391dd154789a5b4fa4c75204235,
title = "Directed assembly of nano-scale phase variants in highly strained BiFeO 3 thin films",
abstract = "The delicate balance between elastic energy and electrostatic energy in highly strained BiFeO 3 (BFO) thin films results in complex mixed-phase patterns, which poses significant challenges for theoretical understanding and complicates the realization of its full potential in magnetoelectric, electromechanical, and photovoltaic devices. In this letter, we explore in-plane electric field induced phase transition in strain engineered BFO thin films and elucidate the mechanism behind the assembly behavior of complex nano-scale phase domains. Our approach enables deterministic control of phase variants with well-defined structures and orientation, paving the way for designing novel data storage devices based on mixed phase BFO.",
author = "Jian Zhou and Morgan Trassin and Qing He and Nobumichi Tamura and Martin Kunz and Chun Cheng and Jinxing Zhang and Liang, {Wen I.} and Jan Seidel and Hsin, {Cheng Lun} and Junqiao Wu",
note = "Funding Information: The device fabrication and AFM measurements were supported by a NSF CAREER Award under Grant No. DMR-1055938. The μXRD measurements were performed at the Advanced Light Source of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Scientific User Facilities Division, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02—05CH11231. The micro-diffraction indexing program at the ALS on BL 12.3.2 was made possible by NSF Grant No. 0416243. We thank Prof. Y. H. Chu in National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan for thoughtful discussions. We thank Professor R. Ramesh in UC Berkeley for help in material preparation.",
year = "2012",
month = sep,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1063/1.4752395",
language = "???core.languages.en_GB???",
volume = "112",
journal = "Journal of Applied Physics",
issn = "0021-8979",
number = "6",
}