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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 129, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/5.0038300
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- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through the Feodor-Lynen fellowship
- NTNU through the Onsager Fellowship Program
- NTNU through the Outstanding Academic Fellows Program
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme [86691]
- German Science Foundation via the Collaborative Research Center [TRR80]
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This study reports the dielectric properties of improper ferroelectric material h-ErMnO3, revealing two distinct relaxation features contributing to high and even colossal dielectric permittivity values. The internal barrier layer capacitance (BLC) related to insulating domain walls is found to play a significant role in the high dielectric constants observed in the material. Unlike proper ferroelectrics, in h-ErMnO3, the insulating domain walls are topologically protected, enabling operation under substantially higher electric fields.
We report the dielectric properties of improper ferroelectric hexagonal (h-)ErMnO3. From the bulk characterization, we observe a temperature and frequency range with two distinct relaxation-like features, leading to high and even colossal values for the dielectric permittivity. One feature trivially originates from the formation of a Schottky barrier at the electrode-sample interface, whereas the second one relates to an internal barrier layer capacitance (BLC). The calculated volume fraction of the internal BLC (of 8%) is in good agreement with the observed volume fraction of insulating domain walls (DWs). While it is established that insulating DWs can give rise to high dielectric constants, studies typically focused on proper ferroelectrics where electric fields can remove the DWs. In h ErMnO 3, by contrast, the insulating DWs are topologically protected, facilitating operation under substantially higher electric fields. Our findings provide the basis for a conceptually new approach to engineer materials exhibiting colossal dielectric permittivities using domain walls in improper ferroelectrics.
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