Journal of Advanced Dielectrics, Volume. 13, Issue 3, 2243002(2023)
Ferroelastic and ferroelectric domains in single crystals
Xianghan Xu*... Fei-Ting Huang* and Sang-Wook Cheong*
|Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USAshow less
High-quality single crystals of are grown using a flux method. With different flux growth recipes, we aim to control the crystallization temperature to be lower and higher than the ferroelectric transition temperature, resulting in mono-domain and multi-domain crystals, respectively. Abundant ferroelastic orthorhombic twin domains are observed in the multi-domain crystals under an optical microscope. PFM studies unveil the 90 polarization change across those ferroelastic domain walls, as well as the absence of 180 ferroelectric domains in the as-grown multi-domain crystals, indicating a high energy cost of 180 ferroelectric domains. Moreover, a 45 tilt of the 90 ferroelectric domain walls is discovered, and this tilt creates a new type of charged 90 ferroelectric walls, which have not been observed in other bulk ferroelectrics.