Phase-field modelling of 180° "bloch walls" in rhombohedral BaTiO3

Phase Transitions

Volumn 84, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 738-746

  Hlinka, J ^a   Stepkova, V ^a   Marton, P ^a   Rychetsky, I ^a   Janovec, V ^a   Ondrejkovic, P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

domain walls; phase field approach; rhombohedral phase

Indexed keywords

BLOCH WALL; MONOCLINIC DOMAINS; PHASE FIELDS; PHASE-FIELD APPROACH; PHASE-FIELD SIMULATION; RHOMBOHEDRAL PHASE; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC FIELD;

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS;

DOMAIN WALLS;

EID: 80052489008     PISSN: 01411594     EISSN: 10290338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01411594.2011.558257     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (24)

1. V.A. Zhirnov, On the theory of the domain walls in ferroelectrics, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 35 (1958), pp. 1175-1180.
2. A.K. Tagantsev, L.E. Cross, and J. Fousek, Domains in Ferroic Crystals and Thin Films, Springer, New York, 2010.
3. V. Janovec, A symmetry approach to domain structures, Ferroelectrics 12 (1976), pp. 43-53.
4. E.B. Sonin and A.K. Tagantsev, Structure and phase transitions in antiphase boundaries of improper ferroelectrics, Ferroelectrics 98 (1989), pp. 291-295.
5. L.N. Bulaevskii and V.L. Ginzburg, Temperature dependence of the shape of the domain wall in ferromagnetics and ferroelectrics, Sov. Phys.- JETP 18 (1964), pp. 530-535.
6. A.A. Bullbich and Yu.M. Gufan, Phase transitions in domain walls, Ferroelectrics 98 (1989), pp. 277-290.
7. B. Houchmandzadeh, J. Lajzerowicz, and E. Salje, Order parameter coupling and chirality of domain walls, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 3 (1991), pp. 5163-5169.
8. W. Cao and L.E. Cross, Theory of tetragonal twin structures in ferroelectric perovskites with a first-order phase transition, Phys. Rev. B 44 (1991), pp. 5-12.
9. X.R. Huang, S.S. Jiang, X.B. Hu, and W.J. Liu, Theory of twinning structures in orthorhombic phase of ferroelectric perovskites, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 9 (1997), pp. 4467-4482. (Pubitemid 127628155)
10. X.R. Huang, X.B. Hu, S.S. Jiang, and D. Feng, Theoretical model of 180°domain-wall structures and their transformation in ferroelectric perovskites, Phys. Rev. B 55 (1997), pp. 5534-5537. (Pubitemid 127802778)
11. J. Privratska and V. Janovec, Examination of point group symmetries of non-ferroelastic domain walls, Ferroelectrics 222 (1999), pp. 281-290.
12. 3-type ferroelectrics, Phys. Rev. B 74 (2006), p. 104104.
13. M. Daraktchiev, G. Catalan, and J.F. Scott, Landau theory of ferroelectric domain walls in magnetoelectrics, Ferroelectrics 375 (2008), pp. 122-131.
14. D. Lee, R.K. Behera, P. Wu, H. Xu, Y.L. Li, S.B. Sinnott, S.R. Phillpot, L.Q. Chen, and V. Gopalan, Mixed Bloch-Neel-Ising character of 180° ferroelectric domain walls, Phys. Rev. B 80 (2009), p. 060102.
15. 3 within the Ginzburg-Landau-Devonshire phenomenological model, Phys. Rev. B 81 (2010), p. 144125.
16. L. Lajzerowicz and J.J. Niez, Phase transition in a domain wall, J. Physique Lett. 40 (1979), pp. 165-169.
17. P. Coullet and J. Lega, Breaking chirality in nonequilibrium systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65 (1990), pp. 1352-1355.
18. I. Rychetsky and W. Schranz, The structure of antiphase boundary and its orientation in improper ferroelectrics, Ferroelectrics 141 (1993), pp. 55-60.
19. 3 ceramics near the morphotropic phase boundary, Phys. Stat. Sol. (a) 8 (1971), pp. 87-98.
20. H. Fu and R.E. Cohen, Polarization rotation mechanism for ultrahigh electromechanical response in single-crystal piezoelectrics, Nature 403 (2000), pp. 281-283. (Pubitemid 30062377)
21. L.-Q. Chen, Phase-field method of phase transitions/domain structures in ferroelectric thin films: A review, J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 91 (2008), pp. 1835-1844.
22. J. Hlinka, Mobility of ferroelastic domain walls in barium titanate, Ferroelectrics 349 (2007), pp. 49-54.
23. 3, Nanotechnology 20 (2009), p. 105709.
24. 3, Phase Transitions 79 (2006), pp. 467-483. (Pubitemid 44494857)