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Neel-like domain walls in ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3 single crystals

Wei, Xian-Kui
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Jia, Chun-Lin
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Sluka, Tomas  
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August 19, 2016
Nature Communications

In contrast to the flexible rotation of magnetization direction in ferromagnets, the spontaneous polarization in ferroelectric materials is highly confined along the symmetry-allowed directions. Accordingly, chirality at ferroelectric domain walls was treated only at the theoretical level and its real appearance is still a mystery. Here we report a Neel-like domain wall imaged by atom-resolved transmission electron microscopy in Ti-rich ferroelectric Pb(Zr1-xTix) O-3 crystals, where nanometre-scale monoclinic order coexists with the tetragonal order. The formation of such domain walls is interpreted in the light of polarization discontinuity and clamping effects at phase boundaries between the nesting domains. Phase-field simulation confirms that the coexistence of both phases as encountered near the morphotropic phase boundary promotes the polarization to rotate in a continuous manner. Our results provide a further insight into the complex domain configuration in ferroelectrics, and establish a foundation towards exploring chiral domain walls in ferroelectrics.

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DOI
10.1038/ncomms12385
Web of Science ID

WOS:000381772500001

Author(s)
Wei, Xian-Kui
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Jia, Chun-Lin
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Sluka, Tomas  
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Wang, Bi-Xia
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Ye, Zuo-Guang
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Setter, Nava  
Date Issued

2016-08-19

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Published in
Nature Communications
Volume

7

Article Number

12385

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This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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