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Disorder and Environmental Effects on Nanodomain Growth

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Point and line defects in the lattice structure of ferroelectric materials play a key role in the formation and growth of domains by providing nucleation centers and domain wall pinning sites, thus affecting polarization switching properties both on macroscopic and nanoscopic scales.

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Notes

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    In the thicker PZT\(_\mathrm {DSO}\), a few domains of opposite polarity were observed near the sample edges. All measurements were however carried on purely monodomain regions near the center of the sample.

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    We note that in this chapter, \(r\) denotes the effective radius of domains, whereas it was used to denote length scales between discrete steps and the interface size in Chaps. 6–8.

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    As shown by phase-field [2] and finite-element [9] simulations of the electric field generated by an AFM tip, the \(1/r\) dependence is a better approximation for the lateral decay of the vertical component of the electric field with respect to \(1/r^2\) given by an effective point charge.

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Guyonnet, J. (2014). Disorder and Environmental Effects on Nanodomain Growth. In: Ferroelectric Domain Walls. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05750-7_9

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