ICCM Conferences, The 6th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM2015)

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Invited: Effect of surface steps on the ferroelectricity of PbTiO3: A first-principles study
Xiaoyuan Wang, Takahiro Shimada, Takayuki Kitamura

Last modified: 2015-06-26

Abstract


In this study, Ab initio (first-principles) density functional theory (DFT) calculations are performed within the local density approximations (LDA) to investigate the ferroelectricity at PbTiO3 surface steps consisting of (001) and (100) surfaces with a spontaneous polarization along[100]. For both the PbO- and TiO2-terminated surface steps, the [100] polarization is suppressed and the [001] polarization appears at their upper terraces, which results in a rotation of polarizations at the surface steps. The polarization rotation is induced by the local variation of the covalent Pb–O bond due to the charge redistribution at the surface steps. Furthermore, we investigate the interaction of the surface steps. Although surface steps with the same polarization configuration exhibit little interaction, steps of different types interact with each other strongly, suppressing the ferroelectricity, especially on the upper terrace.


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