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Polydomain Structure of Epitaxial PbTiO3 films on MgO

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

S. P. Alpay
Affiliation:
Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
A. S. Prakash
Affiliation:
Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
S. Aggarwal
Affiliation:
Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
R. Ramesh
Affiliation:
Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
A. L. Roytburd
Affiliation:
Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
P. Shuk
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Pitscataway, NJ 08855.
M. Greenblatt
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Pitscataway, NJ 08855.
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Abstract

A PbTiO3(001) film grown on MgO(001) by pulsed laser deposition is examined as an example to demonstrate the applications of the domain stability map for epitaxial perovskite films which shows regions of stable domains and fractions of domains in a polydomain structure. X-ray diffraction studies indicate that the film has a …c/a/c/a… domain structure in a temperature range of °C to 400°C with the fraction of c-domains decreasing with increasing temperature. These experimental results are in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions based on the stability map.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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