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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
Volume 105, Issue 4, Pages 2823-2831Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jace.18242
Keywords
atomic structure; dielectric materials; properties; electroceramics; ferroelectricity; ferroelectric materials; nanoparticles
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- JSPSKAKENHI [JP18K18952, JP20K21091, JP20H00314, JP20H02441]
- JSPS-DSTbilateral joint research project [JPJSBP120197724]
- Murata Science foundation [M20-044]
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This study suggests that ferroelectricity may be obtained in hafnium-oxide-based nanoparticles, as zirconium-doped hafnium oxide nanoparticles with diameters of approximately 3-4 nm were found to belong to a metastable phase with an orthorhombic-like local atomic arrangement.
Size effect on ferroelectricity in nanoparticles (NPs) has been an important issue for decades. For NPs with a perovskite-type crystal structure, which are the most popular ferroelectrics, ferroelectricity is believed to disappear for sizes below a critical value. However, newly discovered hafnium-oxide-based systems exhibit stronger ferroelectricity for thinner films that may be advantageous to produce smaller ferroelectric NPs, and the ferroelectricity is believed to originate from a polar orthorhombic phase. In the present study, zirconium-doped hafnium oxide NPs with diameters of similar to 3-4 nm were synthesized and then were clarified to be of a metastable phase with an orthorhombic-like local atomic arrangement. This study implies that ferroelectricity may possibly be obtained in hafnium-oxide-based NPs.
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