1. Nanostructured BiFeO3 thin films
- Author
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Colson, Baptiste, Fuentes, Víctor, Konstantinović, Zorica, Frontera, Carlos, Colson, Dorothée, Forget, Anne, Lazarević, Nenad, Šćepanović, Maja, Popović, Zoran, Balcells, Lluis, Martínez Perea, Benjamín, and Pomar, Alberto
- Abstract
Well defined structures at nanometric scale of multiferroicmaterials present an increasing interest due to their unique physical properties and potential applications. Fabrication of artificial nanostructures requires sophisticated technology and has been recognized as a hard-attainable issue. For these reasons the fabrication of ordered nanostructures, via spontaneous self-organization, is a topic of major relevance. Complex oxide thin films are often elastically strained and this lattice strain can, in some cases, select preferential growth modes leading to the appearance of different self-organized morphologies. In this work we report on the controlled fabrication of a self-assembled network of nanostructures (pits and grooves) in highly epitaxial BiFeO3thin films. As previously shown in the case of manganite thin films [1-2], the remarkable degree of ordering is achieved using vicinal substrates with well-defined step-terrace morphology. Nanostructured BiFeO3thin films show mixed-phase morphology, exhibiting the giant ferroelectric polarization close to the theoretical limit. These particular microstructures open a huge playground for future applications inmultiferroic nanomaterials.
- Published
- 2019