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Colm Durkan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • unexpected Controllable Pair structure in ferroelectric nanodomains
    Nano Letters, 2011
    Co-Authors: Yachin Ivry, Daping Chu, J F Scott, Ekhard K H Salje, Colm Durkan
    Abstract:

    The imminent inability of silicon-based memory devices to satisfy Moore's Law is approaching rapidly. Controllable nanodomains of ferroic systems are anticipated to enable future high-density nonvolatile memory and novel electronic devices. We find via piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) studies on lead zirconate titanate (PZT) films an unexpected nanostructuring of ferroelectric-ferroelastic domains. These consist of c-nanodomains within a-nanodomains in proximity to a-nanodomains within c-domains. These structures are created and annihilated as Pairs, controllably. We treat these as a new kind of vertex-antivertex Pair and consider them in terms of the Srolovitz-Scott 4-state Potts model, which results in Pairwise domain vertex instabilities that resemble the vortex-antivortex mechanism in ferromagnetism, as well as dislocation Pairs (or disclination Pairs) that are well-known in nematic liquid crystals. Finally, we show that these nanoPairs can be scaled up to form arrays that are engineered at will, paving the way toward facilitating them to real technologies.

Yachin Ivry - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • unexpected Controllable Pair structure in ferroelectric nanodomains
    Nano Letters, 2011
    Co-Authors: Yachin Ivry, Daping Chu, J F Scott, Ekhard K H Salje, Colm Durkan
    Abstract:

    The imminent inability of silicon-based memory devices to satisfy Moore's Law is approaching rapidly. Controllable nanodomains of ferroic systems are anticipated to enable future high-density nonvolatile memory and novel electronic devices. We find via piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) studies on lead zirconate titanate (PZT) films an unexpected nanostructuring of ferroelectric-ferroelastic domains. These consist of c-nanodomains within a-nanodomains in proximity to a-nanodomains within c-domains. These structures are created and annihilated as Pairs, controllably. We treat these as a new kind of vertex-antivertex Pair and consider them in terms of the Srolovitz-Scott 4-state Potts model, which results in Pairwise domain vertex instabilities that resemble the vortex-antivortex mechanism in ferromagnetism, as well as dislocation Pairs (or disclination Pairs) that are well-known in nematic liquid crystals. Finally, we show that these nanoPairs can be scaled up to form arrays that are engineered at will, paving the way toward facilitating them to real technologies.

Inmaculada De Hoyos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Ion Zaballa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Daping Chu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • unexpected Controllable Pair structure in ferroelectric nanodomains
    Nano Letters, 2011
    Co-Authors: Yachin Ivry, Daping Chu, J F Scott, Ekhard K H Salje, Colm Durkan
    Abstract:

    The imminent inability of silicon-based memory devices to satisfy Moore's Law is approaching rapidly. Controllable nanodomains of ferroic systems are anticipated to enable future high-density nonvolatile memory and novel electronic devices. We find via piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) studies on lead zirconate titanate (PZT) films an unexpected nanostructuring of ferroelectric-ferroelastic domains. These consist of c-nanodomains within a-nanodomains in proximity to a-nanodomains within c-domains. These structures are created and annihilated as Pairs, controllably. We treat these as a new kind of vertex-antivertex Pair and consider them in terms of the Srolovitz-Scott 4-state Potts model, which results in Pairwise domain vertex instabilities that resemble the vortex-antivortex mechanism in ferromagnetism, as well as dislocation Pairs (or disclination Pairs) that are well-known in nematic liquid crystals. Finally, we show that these nanoPairs can be scaled up to form arrays that are engineered at will, paving the way toward facilitating them to real technologies.