As a comprising event of "Focus on Chinese Culture 2009"series,the art exhibition "China in Eyes of African Artists"was recently held in China Culture Center in Cotonou,economic capital city of Benin.
Driven by the minimization of total energy,the multi-domain morphology is preferred in as-grown ferroelectrics to reduce the depolarization and strain energy during the paraelectric to ferroelectric phase transition.H...Driven by the minimization of total energy,the multi-domain morphology is preferred in as-grown ferroelectrics to reduce the depolarization and strain energy during the paraelectric to ferroelectric phase transition.However,the complicated multi-domain is not desirable for certain high-performance ferroelectric electro-optic devices.In this work,we achieve a reproducible and stable large-area monodomain in as-grown bulk ferroelectric single crystal Sn_(2)P_(2)S_(6).The monodomain dominates the entire single crystal,which is attributed to the internal charge carriers from the photoexcited disproportionation reaction of Sn ions.The charge carriers effectively screen the depolarization field and therefore decrease the depolarization energy and facilitate the formation of monodomain.This work offers a potential approach for engineering bulk ferroelectrics with a stable monodomain,which is desirable for the high-performance ferroelectric electro-optic devices.展开更多
文摘As a comprising event of "Focus on Chinese Culture 2009"series,the art exhibition "China in Eyes of African Artists"was recently held in China Culture Center in Cotonou,economic capital city of Benin.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12172047 and 92163101)the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.Z190011)+1 种基金the National Technologies Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2019YFA0307900)Y.Lun acknowledges the support from the Graduate Technological Innovation Project of Beijing Institute of Technology(Grant No.2019CX20002).
文摘Driven by the minimization of total energy,the multi-domain morphology is preferred in as-grown ferroelectrics to reduce the depolarization and strain energy during the paraelectric to ferroelectric phase transition.However,the complicated multi-domain is not desirable for certain high-performance ferroelectric electro-optic devices.In this work,we achieve a reproducible and stable large-area monodomain in as-grown bulk ferroelectric single crystal Sn_(2)P_(2)S_(6).The monodomain dominates the entire single crystal,which is attributed to the internal charge carriers from the photoexcited disproportionation reaction of Sn ions.The charge carriers effectively screen the depolarization field and therefore decrease the depolarization energy and facilitate the formation of monodomain.This work offers a potential approach for engineering bulk ferroelectrics with a stable monodomain,which is desirable for the high-performance ferroelectric electro-optic devices.
