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Ferroelectric topology and electronic structure of BaTiO 3 (001) 1 Universit Paris-Sud 11 cole Doctorale 107 Physique de la Rgion Parisienne 2 Laboratoire dtude des Nanostructures et Imagerie de Surface (CEA-Saclay/DSM/IRAMIS/SPCSI) 3 CEA/DAM le-de-France 4 Laboratoire Structures, Proprits et Modlisation des Solides (CNRS-UMR 8580 cole Centrale Paris) Jelle Dionot 1,2 Jointly supervised by Grgory Geneste 3,4 and Nick Barrett 2 1 Slide 2 Outline Ferroelectric properties of single crystals Physics and chemistry of surfaces Stoichiometry Doping Strain Experimental and theoretical approaches Electron microscopy and spectroscopy Ab initio simulation 2 Slide 3 Ferroelectric polarization screening on single crystal ------------++++++++ - + ++ ++ ++++++++ ++ ++ ------------ - + - + - + - + - - - - - - - ++++++++ ++ ++ + + + + + Extrinsic (adsorbates) ------------ Intrinsic (e-h pairs, defects) ++--+--- +- ++ ---+++---+++ Domain ordering Ba 2+ Ti 4+ O 2- 3 Slide 4 Experimental approach: Surface full-field imaging techniques 500 nm50 nm 5 nm Polarized Light DIC Optical microscopy Domain ordering PEEM Photoemission threshold Work function 4 LEEM Surface Potential Phase Transition Slide 5 Spectromicroscopy in real and reciprocal space (chemistry and band structure) 5 Real-space imaging Work function variations Surface charge differences in ferroelectric domains 3.2 eV 3.5 eV 3.3 eV 3.4 eV Direct surface chemistry Core level imaging Reciprocal-space imaging Slide 6 Free standing slabs (~130 atoms) Surface Compensation of internal depolarizing fields 2 supercell terminations BaO TiO 2 Density Functional Theory based on minimization of total energy of the system at 0 K 6 Theoretical approach: simulation Slide 7 7 ++--+---+- ++ ---+++---+++ Out-of-plane polarization with uncompensated depolarizing field Barium Titanium Oxygen BaO termination Slide 8 Theoretical approach: simulation 8 Out-of-plane polarization with uncompensated depolarizing field Barium Titanium Oxygen TiO 2 termination Slide 9 Experiments & Calculations 9 Experiments Calculations Oxygen vacancies stabilize inward out-of-plane polarization Surface band structure of doped BaTiO 3 PRL 111, 127602 (2013) Strain-polarization coupling Surface relaxation and rumpling Slide 10 Thank you for your attention! Jelle Dionot Pnultime anne de thse Bt 462, P e 6 10 So far so good! ISOE 2013