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Application of Scanning Capacitance Force Microscopy for Detecting Impurity Phases in Ferroelectric Triglycine Sulfate

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An inhomogeneous ferroelectric (triglycine-sulfate (TGS) single crystal with a TGS–TGS+Cr periodic growth impurity structure) has been investigated by scanning capacitance force microscopy (SCFM). The specific features of mapping capacitance variations when detecting the electrostatic force at double and triple resonance frequencies are considered. The piezoelectric response, surface potential, and surface topography have been measured. It is shown that the capacitance contrast is formed both on domain walls and on TGS and TGS+Cr stripes. It is demonstrated that SCFM at the electrostatic-force double resonance frequency makes it possible to observe the spatial impurity distribution in the ferroelectric structure in the range of Cr concentrations of about 0.02–0.08 wt %.

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The experiments were carried out using equipment of the Shared Research Center, Federal Scientific Research Centre Crystallography and Photonics, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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This study was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation within the State assignment for the Federal Scientific Research Centre Crystallography and Photonics, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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  1. Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Federal Scientific Research Centre Crystallography and Photonics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119333, Moscow, Russia

    R. V. Gainutdinov, A. L. Tolstikhina, A. K. Lashkova & N. V. Belugina

  2. Institute of Technical Acoustics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 210027, Vitebsk, Belarus

    V. N. Shut, S. E. Mozzharov & I. F. Kashevich

  3. Masherov Vitebsk State University, 210032, Vitebsk, Belarus

    I. F. Kashevich

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Gainutdinov, R.V., Tolstikhina, A.L., Lashkova, A.K. et al. Application of Scanning Capacitance Force Microscopy for Detecting Impurity Phases in Ferroelectric Triglycine Sulfate. Tech. Phys. 64, 1602–1608 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784219110094

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