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@ARTICLE{Guan:874048,
author = {Guan, Xiangxiang and Yao, Lide and Rushchanskii, Konstantin
and Inkinen, Sampo and Yu, Richeng and Lezaic, Marjana and
Sánchez, Florencio and Gich, Martí and Dijken, Sebastiaan},
title = {{U}nconventional {F}erroelectric {S}witching via {L}ocal
{D}omain {W}all {M}otion in {M}ultiferroic ε‐{F}e2{O}3
{F}ilms},
journal = {Advanced electronic materials},
volume = {6},
number = {4},
issn = {2199-160X},
address = {Chichester},
publisher = {Wiley},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-01203},
pages = {1901134},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Deterministic polarization reversal in ferroelectric and
multiferroic films is critical for their exploitation in
nanoelectronic devices. While ferroelectricity has been
studied for nearly a century, major discrepancies in the
reported values of coercive fields and saturation
polarization persist in literature for many materials. This
raises questions about the atomic‐scale mechanisms behind
polarization reversal. Unconventional ferroelectric
switching in ε‐Fe2O3 films, a material that combines
ferrimagnetism and ferroelectricity at room temperature, is
reported. High‐resolution in situ scanning transmission
electron microscopy experiments and first‐principles
calculations demonstrate that polarization reversal in
ε‐Fe2O3 occurs around pre‐existing domain walls only,
triggering local domain wall motion in moderate electric
fields of 250–500 kV cm−1. Calculations indicate that
the activation barrier for switching at domain walls is
nearly a quarter of that corresponding to the most likely
transition paths inside ε‐Fe2O3 domains. Moreover, domain
walls provide symmetry lowering of the polar structure near
the domain boundary, which is shown to be necessary for
ferroelectric switching in ε‐Fe2O3. Local polarization
reversal in ε‐Fe2O3 limits the macroscopic ferroelectric
response and offers important hints on how to tailor
ferroelectric properties by domain structure design in other
relevant ferroelectric materials.},
cin = {IAS-1 / PGI-1 / JARA-FIT / JARA-HPC},
ddc = {621.3},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-1-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-1-20110106 /
$I:(DE-82)080009_20140620$ / $I:(DE-82)080012_20140620$},
pnm = {142 - Controlling Spin-Based Phenomena (POF3-142) / 143 -
Controlling Configuration-Based Phenomena (POF3-143) / Ab
initio study of novel multiferroic materials
$(jiff38_20190501)$},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-142 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-143 /
$G:(DE-Juel1)jiff38_20190501$},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000512960000001},
doi = {10.1002/aelm.201901134},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/874048},
}