Citation: Chen Xing, Tian He, Zhang Ze. Periodic Misfit Dislocation and Electron Aggregation at (010) PbTiO₃/SrTiO₃ Heterointerface[J]. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica, ;2020, 36(11): 190601. doi: 10.3866/PKU.WHXB201906019 shu

Periodic Misfit Dislocation and Electron Aggregation at (010) PbTiO₃/SrTiO₃ Heterointerface

State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Center of Electron Microscopy, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China

Corresponding author: Tian He, hetian@zju.edu.cn
Received Date: 4 June 2019
Revised Date: 27 June 2019
Accepted Date: 28 June 2019
Available Online: 5 July 2019
Fund Project: the National Key Basic Research Development Program of China (973) 2015CB654900The project was supported by the National Key Basic Research Development Program of China (973) (2015CB654900)

It is important to determine the effects of misfit dislocations and other defects on the domain structure, ferroelectricity, conductivity, and other physical properties of ferroelectric thin films to understand their ferroelectric and piezoelectric behaviors. Much attention has been given to ferroelectric PbTiO₃/SrTiO₃ or PbZr_0.2Ti_0.8O₃/SrTiO₃ heterointerfaces, at which improper ferroelectricity, a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas, and other physical phenomena have been found. However, those heterointerfaces were all (001) planes, and there has been no experimental studies on the growth of (010) PbTiO₃/SrTiO₃ heterointerface due to the 6.4% misfit between two materials. In this study, we selected an atomically flat (010) PbTiO₃/SrTiO₃ heterointerface grown using a two-step hydrothermal method as the research subject, and this is the first experimental report on that interface. Interfacial dislocations can play a significant role in causing dramatic changes in the Curie temperature and polarization distribution near the dislocation cores, especially when the size of a ferroelectric thin film is scaled down to the nanoscale. The results of previous studies on the effects of interfacial dislocations on the physical properties of ferroelectric thin films have been contradictory. Thus, this issue needs to be explored more deeply in the future. This study used aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) to study the atomic structure of a (010) PbTiO₃/SrTiO₃ heterointerface and found periodic misfit dislocations with a Burgers vector of a[001]. The extra planes at the dislocation cores could relieve the misfit strain between the two materials in the [001] direction and thus allowed the growth of such an atomically sharp heterointerface. Moreover, monochromated electron energy-loss spectroscopy with an atomic scale spatial resolution and high energy resolution was used to explore the charge distribution near the periodic misfit dislocation cores. The fine structure of the Ti L edge was quantitatively analyzed by linearly fitting the experimental spectra recorded at various locations near and at the misfit dislocation cores with the Ti³⁺ and Ti⁴⁺ reference spectra. Therefore, the accurate valence change of Ti could be determined, which corresponded to the charge distribution. The probable existence of an aggregation of electrons was found near the a[001] dislocation cores, and the density of the electrons calculated from the valence change was 0.26 electrons per unit cell. Based on an analysis of the fine structure of the oxygen K edge, it could be argued that the electrons aggregating at the dislocation cores came from the oxygen vacancies in the interior regions of the PbTiO₃. This aggregation of electrons will probably increase the electron conductivity along the dislocation line. The physics of two-dimensional charge distributions at oxide interfaces have been intensively studied, however, little attention had been given to the one-dimensional charge distribution. Therefore, the results of this study can stimulate research interest in exploring the influence of the interfacial dislocations on the physics of ferroelectric heterointerfaces.
- PbTiO₃,
- SrTiO₃,
- Heterointerface,
- Misfit dislocation,
- Aberration corrected transmission electron microscopy,
- Electron energy-loss spectroscopy
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