Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 79, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.024101
Keywords
barium compounds; electric domains; nanostructured materials; strontium compounds; superlattices
Funding
- ONR [N0001404-1-0413, N00014-08-1-0915]
- NSF [DMR-0701558, DMR-0404335, DMR-0080054, 0722625]
- DOE [DE-FG02-05ER46188]
- HPCMO, U.S
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The evolution from nanostripes to monodomains is explored in ferroelectric BaTiO3/SrTiO3 (BT/ST) superlattices under dc and ac electric fields via the use of a first-principles-based technique. Such evolution involves original states that result in the decoupling of (static and dynamical) properties between BT versus ST layers. For instance, domain walls of nanostripes move at a different speed inside BT versus ST layers, and one intermediate state consists of three-dimensional nanobubbles inside BT layers coexisting with a monodomain inside ST layers. Moreover, velocities of domain walls of nanostripes and nanobubbles are determined as a function of the magnitude and frequency of the applied electric field. The domain-wall motion in BT and ST layers is found to follow a previously determined equation at small fields. On the other hand, velocities of domain walls of nanostripes and nanobubbles are found to obey a different empirical law at higher fields.
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