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Title: High-temperature domain wall current in Mg-doped lithium niobate single crystals up to 400°C
(Submitted on 1 Apr 2024 (v1), last revised 15 Apr 2024 (this version, v2))
Abstract: Conductive ferroelectric domain walls (DWs) represent a promising topical system for the development of nanoelectronic components and devices. DWs show very different properties as compared to their bulk counterparts. Of central interest here is the domain wall current (DWC) of charged DWs in 5mol\% Mg-doped lithium niobate single crystals; in contrast to former works, we extend the DWC study here to temperatures as high as 400$^\circ$C. Both the temporal stability and the thermal activation energies of 90 - 160 meV are readily deduced from current-voltage sweeps as recorded over multiple heating cycles. Our experimental work is backed up by atomistic modelling of the DWC. The latter suggests that a large band bending renders head-to-head and tail-to-tail DWs semimetallic. These detailed investigations underline the potential to extend DWC-based nanoelectronic applications even into the so-far unexplored high-temperature regime.
Submission history
From: Uliana Yakhnevych [view email][v1] Mon, 1 Apr 2024 16:13:22 GMT (434kb,D)
[v2] Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:06:13 GMT (1982kb,D)
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