Stability diagram for elastic domains in epitaxial ferroelectric thin films
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in Physics of the Solid State
- Vol. 39 (1), 109-115
- https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1129810
Abstract
The statics of isolated elastic domains (twins) in epitaxial thin tetragonal films grown on a cubic substrate is investigated theoretically. Different possible variants of the geometric shape of a domain are studied: plate, trapezoidal, and triangular. The nonuniform internal stresses, which also exist in polydomain epitaxial systems, are calculated by the effective-dislocation method. Hence the elastic energies stored in heterostructures with different domains are determined. The equilibrium width of a domain is calculated by minimizing the total internal energy of the heterostructure. Next, the stability diagram for isolated domains in epitaxial films is constructed from energy considerations. It is shown that in a large part of this diagram trapezoidal domains are energetically more advantageous than plate-shaped domains. The effect of an external electric field on the stability of 90° domains in epitaxial ferroelectric films is investigated.Keywords
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