Nanoscale phase mixture in uniaxial strained BiFeO3 (110) thin films

• Main Authors: Liu, Huajun, Yang, Ping, You, Lu, Zhou, Yang, Fan, Zhen, Tan, Hui Ru, Wang, Junling, Wang, John, Yao, Kui
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103259; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38751
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A strain-induced nanoscale phase mixture in epitaxial BiFeO3 (110) films is investigated. High resolution synchrotron x-ray diffraction shows that a monoclinic M2 phase (orthorhombic-like, with a c/a ∼ 1.01) coexists as the intermediate phase between monoclinic M1 phase (tetragonal-like, with a c/a ...