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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik

O 44: Focus Session: Surfaces and Interfaces of (Incipient) Ferroelectrics (joint session O/KFM)

O 44.5: Talk

Wednesday, September 7, 2022, 16:30–16:45, H3

Ferroelectric domain imaging in barium titanate using infrared-visible sum-frequency generation microscopy — •Dorothee Mader1, Daniel Lourens2, Maarten Kwaaitaal2, Richarda Niemann1, Sören Wasserroth1, Sandy Gewinner1, Marco De Pas1, Wieland Schöllkopf1, Martin Wolf1, Andrei Kirilyuk2, Sebastian F. Maehrlein1, and Alexander Paarmann11Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany — 2Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Phonons exhibit a mostly unexplored leverage on the mechanisms and dynamics of domain formation in ferroics. Here, a new method is employed combining resonant phonon excitation and ferroelectric domain imaging of barium titanate (BTO) using infrared-visible (IR-VIS) sum-frequency generation (SFG) microscopy [1]. BTO is a non-centrosymmetric perovskite oxide with a strong ferroelectric polarization in its tetragonal phase. Typically, BTO samples exhibit a multi-domain structure. In this contribution, SFG microscopy is shown to naturally provide domain contrast due to the polarization-induced local variation of the nonlinear susceptibility. Additionally, our spectral analysis of the SFG response reveals the domain-selective phonon resonances for all high-frequency phonons in the IR spectral range of 500-800 cm−1. By locally mapping phonon resonances in domains and domain walls, this approach may enable in-depth understanding of the underlying physics of domain formation and its dynamics. [1] R. Niemann et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 120, 131102 (2022).

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