Abstract
AbstractThe development of energy-efficient nanoelectronics based on ferroelectrics is hampered by a notorious polarization loss in the ultrathin regime caused by the unscreened polar discontinuity at the interfaces. So far, engineering charge screening at either the bottom or the top interface has been used to optimize the polarization state. Yet, it is expected that the combined effect of both interfaces determines the final polarization state; in fact the more so the thinner a film is. The competition and cooperation between interfaces have, however, remained unexplored so far. Taking PbTiO3 as a model system, we observe drastic differences between the influence of a single interface and the competition and cooperation of two interfaces. We investigate the impact of these configurations on the PbTiO3 polarization when the interfaces are in close proximity, during thin-film synthesis in the ultrathin limit. By tailoring the interface chemistry towards a cooperative configuration, we stabilize a robust polarization state with giant polarization enhancement. Interface cooperation hence constitutes a powerful route for engineering the polarization in thin-film ferroelectrics towards improved integrability for oxide electronics in reduced dimension.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Chemistry
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20 articles.
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