NANOSENSORS PtIr coated PPP-EFM AFM tips were used for the PFM imaging in this interesting paper.
Figure 2: AFM topography images of; (a) 130 nm BFO film grown on NGO and (b) on 100 nm LSCO layered NGO. (c,d) Section analysis along the lines drawn in (c) and (d), respectively, showing the puckering of the surfaces.
from: Long-range Stripe Nanodomains in Epitaxial (110) BiFeO3 Thin Films on (100) NdGaO3 Substrate
Yogesh Sharma, Radhe Agarwal, Charudatta Phatak, Bumsoo Kim, Seokwoo Jeon, Ram S. Katiyar & Seungbum Hong Long-range Stripe Nanodomains in Epitaxial (110) BiFeO3 Thin Films on (100) NdGaO3 Substrate,
Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 4857 (2017), doi:10.1038/s41598-017-05055-z
Abstract: Here, we report the observation of ferroelectric and ferroelastic nanodomains in (110)-oriented BiFeO3 (BFO) thin films epitaxially grown on low symmetric (100) NdGaO3 (NGO) substrate. We observed long range ordering of ferroelectric 109° stripe nanodomains separated by periodic vertical domain walls in as-grown 130 nm thick BFO films. The effect of La 0.67 Sr0.33 CoO3 (LSCO) conducting interlayer on domain configurations in BFO/NGO film was also observed with relatively short range-ordering of stripe domains due to the modified electrostatic boundary conditions in BFO/LSCO/NGO film. Additional studies on B-site doping of Nb ions in BFO films showed change in the domain structures due to doping induced change in lattice anisotropy while maintaining the stripe domain morphology with 109° domain wall. This long-range array of ferroelectric and ferroelastic domains can be useful for optoelectronic devices and ferroelastic templates for strain coupled artificial magnetoelectric heterostructures.
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