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DF 1: Tutorial on Ferroics (DF with MA/TT)

DF 1.3: Tutorial

Sunday, March 15, 2015, 17:40–18:30, H 0107

Ferroelastic templates for multiferroic domain boundaries — •Ekhard Salje — University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

The field of Domain Boundary Engineering is introduced. Ferroelastic domain pattern are derived and their dynamical behaviour is deducted from experimental observations and computer simulations. It is then shown that twin boundaries are particularly easily modified to possess functional properties that do not exist in the bulk. Such functional properties include (super-) conductivity, ferroelectricity, and ferromagnetism. In addition, chemical mixing inside domain walls can generate novel chemical compounds. This effect is refereed to as ’Chemical Mixing in Confined Spaces’. Functionalities often generate chiralities and vortex structures in domain boundaries. It is shown that chirality (in order parameter space) leads to Bloch lines and vortex points as one- and zero-dimensional domain walls embedded in two-dimensional ferroelastic domain walls and are hence walls in walls. Examples in CaTiO₃ and SrTiO₃ are discussed.
[1] E.K.H. Salje, Ferroelastic Materials, Annual Review of Materials Research, 42, 265-283 (2012)
[2] E.K.H. Salje and K.A. Dahmen, Crackling Noise in Disordered Materials, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 5, 233-254 (2014)
[3] E.K.H. Salje, Multiferroic Domain Boundaries as Active Memory Devices: Trajectories Towards Domain Boundary Engineering, Chem. Phys. Chem., 11, 940-950 (2010)
[4] D.D. Viehland and E.K.H. Salje, Domain boundary-dominated systems: adaptive structures and functional twin boundaries, Advances in Physics, 63, 267-326 (2014)