Fabrication of Tetragonal Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 Nanorods by Focused Ion Beam and Characterization of the Domain Structure

It has been widely revealed and discussed that the properties of ferroelectric nanostructures vary with their dimensionality and size. The mechanical substrate clamping and the depolarization field are considered as major factors, which cause their unique properties. In this paper, we fabricated tetragonal {100}-Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 rods with 100 nm-4widths on Nb-doped SrTiO3 substrates using focused ion beam and characterized their domain structure by synchrotron micro X-ray diffraction. It was found that the clapping angle in the a/c-domain structure became larger with decreasing rod width, which indicates the significant reduction of substrate clamping by fabricating narrow rods.

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