Light-Driven Ultrafast Polarization Manipulation in a Relaxor Ferroelectric

Suji Park; Bo Wang; Tiannan Yang; Jieun Kim; Sahar Saremi; Wenbo Zhao; Burak Guzelturk; Aditya Sood; Clara Nyby; Marc Zajac; Xiaozhe Shen; Michael Kozina; Alexander H. Reid; Stephen Weathersby; Xijie Wang; Lane W. Martin; Long Qing Chen; Aaron M. Lindenberg

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c02706

Light-Driven Ultrafast Polarization Manipulation in a Relaxor Ferroelectric

Suji Park, Bo Wang, Tiannan Yang, Jieun Kim, Sahar Saremi, Wenbo Zhao, Burak Guzelturk, Aditya Sood, Clara Nyby, Marc Zajac, Xiaozhe Shen, Michael Kozina, Alexander H. Reid, Stephen Weathersby, Xijie Wang, Lane W. Martin, Long Qing Chen, Aaron M. Lindenberg

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Abstract

Relaxor ferroelectrics have been intensely studied for decades based on their unique electromechanical responses which arise from local structural heterogeneity involving polar nanoregions or domains. Here, we report first studies of the ultrafast dynamics and reconfigurability of the polarization in freestanding films of the prototypical relaxor 0.68PbMg_1/3Nb_2/3O₃-0.32PbTiO₃(PMN-0.32PT) by probing its atomic-scale response via femtosecond-resolution, electron-scattering approaches. By combining these structural measurements with dynamic phase-field simulations, we show that femtosecond light pulses drive a change in both the magnitude and direction of the polarization vector within polar nanodomains on few-picosecond time scales. This study defines new opportunities for dynamic reconfigurable control of the polarization in nanoscale relaxor ferroelectrics.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	9275-9282
Number of pages	8
Journal	Nano Letters
Volume	22
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c02706
State	Published - Dec 14 2022
Externally published	Yes

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Bioengineering
Chemistry(all)
Materials Science(all)
Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanical Engineering

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electron diffraction
ferroelectrics
structural dynamics
ultrafast

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Park, S., Wang, B., Yang, T., Kim, J., Saremi, S., Zhao, W., Guzelturk, B., Sood, A., Nyby, C., Zajac, M., Shen, X., Kozina, M., Reid, A. H., Weathersby, S., Wang, X., Martin, L. W., Chen, L. Q., & Lindenberg, A. M. (2022). Light-Driven Ultrafast Polarization Manipulation in a Relaxor Ferroelectric. Nano Letters, 22(23), 9275-9282. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c02706

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Light-Driven Ultrafast Polarization Manipulation in a Relaxor Ferroelectric

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