Piezoelectrics are a category of useful supplies which were extensively used for software in trendy electro-mechanical and mechatronics applied sciences. *
The signal of longitudinal piezoelectric coefficients is usually optimistic however just lately a couple of ferroelectrics, similar to ferroelectric polymer poly(vinylidene fluoride) and van der Waals ferroelectric CuInP2S6, have been experimentally discovered to have unfavourable piezoelectricity.
Within the article “Tunable and parabolic piezoelectricity in hafnia below epitaxial pressure” Hao Cheng, Peijie Jiao, Jian Wang, Mingkai Qing, Yu Deng, Jun-Ming Liu, Laurent Bellaiche, Di Wu and Yurong Yang, utilizing first-principles calculation and measurements, present that the signal of the longitudinal linear piezoelectric coefficient of HfO2 could be tuned from optimistic to unfavourable by way of epitaxial pressure. *
Nonlinear and even parabolic piezoelectric behaviors are additional discovered at tensile epitaxial pressure. *
This parabolic piezoelectric conduct implies that the polarization decreases when growing the magnitude of both compressive or tensile longitudinal pressure, or, equivalently, that the pressure will increase when growing the magnitude of electrical area being both parallel or antiparallel to the route of polarization. The bizarre piezoelectric results are from the chemical coordination of the lively oxygen atoms. *
These hanging piezoelectric options of optimistic and unfavourable signal, in addition to linear and parabolical behaviors, increase the present information in piezoelectricity and broaden the potential of piezoelectric purposes in direction of electro-mechanical and communications know-how. *
NanoWorld Pt/Ir coated Pointprobe® EFM AFM probes have been used for the pattern characterization by switching spectroscopy PFM measurements.
Switching spectroscopy PFM measurements have been carried out on the naked HZO movie floor at room temperature with Nanoworld Pointprobe® EFM in a commercially out there atomic drive microscope, whereas the LSMO electrode was grounded.
a XRD θ-2θ patterns of HZO movies deposited on (110)-oriented LAO with 20-, 33-, 66-nm-thick LSMO buffer layers. b PFM part loops of the HZO movies deposited on 20-, 33- and 66-nm-thick LSMO buffered LAO substrates. c–e Reciprocal house mappings across the (310) spot of HZO/LSMO/LAO with c 20-, d 33-, and e 66-nm-thick LSMO buffer layers.
*Hao Cheng, Peijie Jiao, Jian Wang, Mingkai Qing, Yu Deng, Jun-Ming Liu, Laurent Bellaiche, Di Wu and Yurong Yang
Tunable and parabolic piezoelectricity in hafnia below epitaxial pressure
Nature Communications quantity 15, Article quantity: 394 (2024)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44207-w
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