Piezoelectric domain walls in van der Waals antiferroelectric CuInP2Se6

Polar van der Waals chalcogenophosphates exhibit unique properties, such as negative electrostriction and multi-well ferrielectricity, and enable combining dielectric and 2D electronic materials. Using low temperature piezoresponse force microscopy, we revealed coexistence of piezoelectric and non-piezoelectric phases in CuInP2Se6, forming unusual domain walls with enhanced piezoelectric response. From systematic imaging experiments we have inferred the formation of a partially polarized antiferroelectric state, with inclusions of structurally distinct ferrielectric domains enclosed by the corresponding phase boundaries. The assignment is strongly supported by optical spectroscopies and density-functional-theory calculations. Enhanced piezoresponse at the ferrielectric/antiferroelectric phase boundary and the ability to manipulate this entity with electric field on the nanoscale expand the existing phenomenology of functional domain walls. At the same time, phase-coexistence in chalcogenophosphates may lead to rational strategies for incorporation of ferroic functionality into van der Waals heterostructures, with stronger resilience toward detrimental size-effects.

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2020

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2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

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Nature communications - 11(2020), 1 vom: 17. Juli, Seite 3623

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Englisch

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Dziaugys, Andrius [VerfasserIn]
Kelley, Kyle [VerfasserIn]
Brehm, John A [VerfasserIn]
Tao, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Puretzky, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Tianli [VerfasserIn]
O'Hara, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Neumayer, Sabine [VerfasserIn]
Chyasnavichyus, Marius [VerfasserIn]
Eliseev, Eugene A [VerfasserIn]
Banys, Juras [VerfasserIn]
Vysochanskii, Yulian [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Feng [VerfasserIn]
Chakoumakos, Bryan C [VerfasserIn]
Susner, Michael A [VerfasserIn]
McGuire, Michael A [VerfasserIn]
Kalinin, Sergei V [VerfasserIn]
Ganesh, Panchapakesan [VerfasserIn]
Balke, Nina [VerfasserIn]
Pantelides, Sokrates T [VerfasserIn]
Morozovska, Anna N [VerfasserIn]
Maksymovych, Petro [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 17.07.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1038/s41467-020-17137-0

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