Back to Search
Start Over
Effects of the surface charge screening and temperature on the vortex domain patterns of ferroelectric nanodots.
- Source :
- Journal of Applied Physics; Nov2012, Vol. 112 Issue 10, p104108, 8p, 6 Color Photographs
- Publication Year :
- 2012
-
Abstract
- Based on the phase field simulations, effects of the surface charge screening and temperature on the vortex domain structure of the ferroelectric nanodot have been investigated. Our calculations show that the ferroelectric nanodot adopts a rhombohedral vortex domain pattern under an ideal open-circuit boundary condition. With the increase of the surface charge screening, the dipole vortex gradually rotates and appears rhombohedral-orthorhombic-tetragonal transformation. By adjusting the surface charge screening, the polar single domain and multi-vortices domain patterns with zero toroidal moment have been obtained near the phase transition temperature. More importantly, temperature and charge screening 'T-C' phase diagram has been summarized, which indicates an effective method to control the vortex domain structure in the low-dimensional ferroelectric nanostructures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SURFACE charges
TEMPERATURE
FERROELECTRIC materials
QUANTUM dots
PHASE diagrams
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00218979
- Volume :
- 112
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Applied Physics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 83779086
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4766382