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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 257603 (2007) [4 pages]

Elastic Stabilization of a Single-Domain Ferroelectric State in Nanoscale Capacitors and Tunnel Junctions

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N. A. Pertsev^1,2 and H. Kohlstedt¹
¹Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany
²A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia

Received 14 November 2006; published 22 June 2007

Takinginto account the electrostrictive coupling between inhomogeneous polarization fluctuations andlattice strains in ferroelectric films, we show that, in heterostructuresinvolving strained epitaxial films and metal electrodes, the single-domain statemay remain stable against the transformation into a polydomain statedown to the nanometer scale. This result indicates that theferroelectric states with opposite remanent polarizations can be stabilized evenin nanoscale capacitors and tunnel junctions, which opens the possibilityof their application for memory storage.

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URL:	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.257603
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.257603
PACS:	77.80.Dj; 77.55.+f 77.80.Dj Ferroelectric domain structure; hysteresis 77.55.+f Dielectric thin films YEAR: 2007

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Comment on “Elastic Stabilization of a Single-Domain Ferroelectric State in Nanoscale Capacitors and Tunnel Junctions”
A. M. Bratkovsky and A. P. Levanyuk
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Pertsev and Kohlstedt Reply:
N. A. Pertsev and H. Kohlstedt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 149702 (2008)

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