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American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 18(87), p. 182912

DOI: 10.1063/1.2126804

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Ferroelectric Domain Structure in Epitaxial BiFeO3 Films

Journal article published in 2005 by F. Zavaliche, R. R. Das, D. M. Kim, C. B. Eom, Yang Sy, S. Y. Yang, P. Shafer ORCID, R. Ramesh
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Abstract

Piezoelectric force microscopy is employed to study the ferroelectric domain structure in a 600 nm thick epitaxial BiFeO3 film. In the as-grown film, a mosaic-like domain structure is observed. Scans taken with the cantilever pointing along the principal crystallographic directions enabled us to reconstruct the polarization direction. By combining the perpendicular and in-plane piezoresponse data, we found that the ferroelectric domain structure is mainly described by four polarization directions. These directions point oppositely along two body diagonals, which form an angle of ∼ 71°. The other variants are also occasionally observed.