Multiscaling analysis of ferroelectric domain wall roughness

Using multiscaling analysis, we compare the characteristic roughening of ferroelectric domain walls in Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 thin films with numerical simulations of weakly pinned one-dimensional interfaces. Although at length scales up to LMA ≥ 5 μm the ferroelectric domain walls behave similarly to the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Guyonnet, J., Agoritsas, E., Bustingorry, Sebastian, Giamarchi, T., Paruch, P.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/11241
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/11241
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ferroelectrics
Domain Walls
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
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Sumario:Using multiscaling analysis, we compare the characteristic roughening of ferroelectric domain walls in Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 thin films with numerical simulations of weakly pinned one-dimensional interfaces. Although at length scales up to LMA ≥ 5 μm the ferroelectric domain walls behave similarly to the numerical interfaces, showing a simple monoaffine scaling (with a well-defined roughness exponent ζ), we demonstrate more complex scaling at higher length scales, making the walls globally multiaffine (varying ζ at different observation length scales). The dominant contributions to this multiaffine scaling appear to be very localized variations in the disorder potential, possibly related to dislocation defects present in the substrate.