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JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 61, Issue SN, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.35848/1347-4065/ac7d94
Keywords
ferroelectric phase transition; crystalline fine particle; coherent X-ray diffraction; imaging
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- JSPS [JP19H02618, JP18H03850, JP18H05518, JP19H05819, JP19H05625, JP20H02641, JP22H01976]
- QST President's Strategic Grant (QST Advanced Study Laboratory)
- QST Advanced Research Infrastructure for Materials and Nanotechnology under the remit of Advanced Research Infrastructure for Materials and Nanotechnology of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan [JPMXP1222QS0017]
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The shapes and sizes of grains have significant effects on the anisotropy of crystal structures and the configuration of ferroelectric domains. This study introduces a method to observe a ferroelectric phase transition in single sub-micrometer-sized particles. By analyzing the pattern variations of Bragg coherent X-ray diffraction from a single particle of BaTiO3, the phase transition from cubic to tetragonal phase was observed, and the apparent strain distribution caused by dislocation within the crystal was imaged using Bragg coherent diffraction imaging.
The shapes and sizes of grains influence the anisotropy of crystal structures and the configuration of ferroelectric domains. In order to better understand these effects, we introduce a method to observe a ferroelectric phase transition in a single ferroelectric particle of sub-micrometer size. The phase transition was observed by cooling the sample through its Curie temperature, and studying the pattern variations of Bragg coherent X-ray diffraction from a single particle of 500 nm sized BaTiO3. A change from a single 200 peak (cubic phase) to both 200 and 002 peaks (tetragonal phase); was seen, with fringes connecting them like a bridge. The pattern from the BaTiO3 particle in the cubic phase was also imaged using Bragg coherent diffraction imaging. The apparent strain distribution caused by dislocation internal to the BaTiO3 crystal was visible in the reconstructed image.
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