authors |
Alikin, D.; Abramov, A.; Turygin, A.; Ievlev, A.; Pryakhina, V.; Karpinsky, D.; Hu, Q.; Jin, L.; Shur, V.; Tselev, A.; Kholkin |
nationality |
International |
journal |
SMALL METHODS |
abstract |
Monitoring the charged defect concentration at the nanoscale is of critical importance for both the fundamental science and applications of ferroelectrics. However, up-to-date, high-resolution study methods for the investigation of structural defects, such as transmission electron microscopy, X-ray tomography, etc., are expensive and demand complicated sample preparation. With an example of the lanthanum-doped bismuth ferrite ceramics, a novel method is proposed based on the switching spectroscopy piezoresponse force microscopy (SSPFM) that allows probing the electric potential from buried subsurface charged defects in the ferroelectric materials with a nanometer-scale spatial resolution. When compared with the composition-sensitive methods, such as neutron diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and local time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry, the SSPFM sensitivity to the variation of the electric potential from the charged defects is shown to be equivalent to less than 0.3 at% of the defect concentration. Additionally, the possibility to locally evaluate dynamics of the polarization screening caused by the charged defects is demonstrated, which is of significant interest for further understanding defect-mediated processes in ferroelectrics. |
publisher |
Wiley |
year published |
2021 |
digital object identifier (doi) |
10.1002/smtd.202101289 |
link |
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smtd.202101289
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12.13 |
5 year journal impact factor |
12.13 |
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91.375 |
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