Browsing Institutt for materialteknologi by Journals "Applied Physics Letters"

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    • Control of conductivity and electric field induced strain in bulk Bi0.5K0.5TiO3-BiFeO3 ceramics 

      Morozov, Maxim; Einarsrud, Mari-Ann; Grande, Tor (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      High electrical conductivity is one of the main obstacles for advances of bulk BiFeO3 ceramics in piezoelectric applications. Here, we demonstrate that the electrical conductivity of BiFeO3 can be lowered by compositional ...

    • Electric field dependent polarization switching of tetramethylammonium bromotrichloroferrite(III) ferroelectric plastic crystals 

      Walker, Julian; Sherrer, Simon; Løndal, Nora Statle; Grande, Tor; Einarsrud, Mari-Ann (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Tetramethylammonium bromotrichloroferrate(III) ([N(CH3)4][FeBrCl3]) is a plastic crystal ferroelectric with small dielectric constant <20 and piezoelectric coefficient as high as 110 pC/N. Here, super-coercive hysteresis ...

    • Electrostatic potential mapping at ferroelectric domain walls by low-temperature photoemission electron microscopy 

      Schaab, Jakob; Shapovalov, Konstantin; Schoenherr, Peggy; Hackl, Johanna; Khan, Muhammad Imtiaz; Hentschel, Mario; Yan, Zewu; Bourret, Edith; Schneider, Claus M.; Nemsak, Slavomír; Stengel, Massimiliano; Cano, Andrés; Meier, Dennis (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Low-temperature X-ray photoemission electron microscopy (X-PEEM) is used to measure the electric potential at domain walls in improper ferroelectric Er0.99Ca0.01MnO3. By combining X-PEEM with scanning probe microscopy and ...

    • FIB lift-out of conducting ferroelectric domain walls in hexagonal manganites 

      Mosberg, Aleksander Buseth; Roede, Erik Dobloug; Evans, Donald; Holstad, Theodor S.; Bourret, Edith; Yan, Zewu; Van Helvoort, Antonius; Meier, Dennis (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      A focused ion beam (FIB) methodology is developed to lift out suitable specimens containing charged domain walls in improper ferroelectric ErMnO3. The FIB procedure allows for extracting domain wall sections with well-defined ...

    • FIB lift-out of conducting ferroelectric domain walls in hexagonal manganites 

      Evans, Donald; Meier, Dennis; Mosberg, Aleksander Buseth; Roede, Erik Dobloug; Holstad, Theodor S.; Bourret, Edith; Yan, Zewu; Van Helvoort, Antonius (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      A focused ion beam (FIB) methodology is developed to lift out suitable specimens containing charged domain walls in improper ferroelectric ErMnO3. The FIB procedure allows for extracting domain wall sections with well-defined ...

    • Formation of incoherent deformation twin boundaries in a coarse-grained Al-7Mg alloy 

      Jin, Shenbao; Zhang, Kai; Bjørge, Ruben; Tao, NR; Marthinsen, Knut; Lu, K; Li, Yanjun (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Deformation twinning has rarely been observed in coarse grained Al and its alloys except under some extreme conditions such as ultrahigh deformation strain or strain rates. Here, we report that a significant amount of Σ3 ...

    • Frequency dependent polarisation switching in h-ErMnO3 

      Ruff, Alexander; Li, Ziyu; Loidl, Alois; Schaab, Jakob; Fiebig, Manfred; Cano, Andres; Yan, Zewu; Bourret, Edith; Glaum, Julia; Meier, Dennis; Krohns, Stephan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      We report an electric-field poling study of the geometric-driven improper ferroelectric h-ErMnO3. From a detailed dielectric analysis we deduce the temperature and frequency dependent range for which single-crystalline ...

    • Intrinsic and extrinsic conduction contributions at nominally neutral domain walls in hexagonal manganites 

      Schultheiß, Jan; Schaab, Jakob; Småbråten, Didrik Rene; Skjærvø, Sandra Helen; Bourret, Edith; Yan, Zewu; Selbach, Sverre Magnus; Meier, Dennis Gerhard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Conductive and electrostatic atomic force microscopy (cAFM and EFM) are used to investigate the electric conduction at nominally neutral domain walls in hexagonal manganites. The EFM measurements reveal a propensity of ...

    • Moiré fringes in conductive atomic force microscopy 

      Richarz, Leonie; He, J.; Ludacka, Ursula; Bourret, E.; Yan, Z.; Van Helvoort, Antonius; Meier, Dennis (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Moiré physics plays an important role in characterization of functional materials and engineering of physical properties in general, ranging from strain-driven transport phenomena to superconductivity. Here, we report on ...

    • Polarization and strain response in Bi0.5K0.5TiO3-BiFeO3 ceramics 

      Morozov, Maxim; Einarsrud, Mari-Ann; Grande, Tor (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Highly dense and phase-pure ferroelectric ceramics in the (1-x)Bi0.5K0.5TiO3–xBiFeO3 system have been prepared and examined in a wide range of composition (0.1 ≤ x ≤ 0.9). The dielectric and electromechanical properties ...

    • Poling-induced inverse time-dependent microstrain mechanisms and post-poling relaxation in bismuth ferrite 

      Liu, Lisha; Rojac, Tadej; Kimpton, Justin; Walker, Julian; Makarovic, Maja; Li, Jing-Feng; Daniels, John E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Domain-wall dynamics under strong, super-coercive electric fields in polycrystalline bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) are not well established due to the experimental difficulties in processing high phase purity perovskite with ...