Phase transitions induced by confinement of ferroic nanoparticles

Details Phase transitions induced by confinement of ferroic nanoparticles Phase transitions induced by confinement of ferroic nanoparticles

2007-03-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703652v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

35 pages, 11 figures, 2 appendices, to be submitted to Physical Review B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.76.014102

General approach for consideration of primary ferroic (ferroelectric, ferromagnetic, ferroelastic) nanoparticles phase transitions was proposed in phenomenological theory framework. The surface stress, order parameter gradient, striction as well as depolarization and demagnetization effects were included into the free energy. The strong intrinsic surface stress under the curved nanoparticle surface was shown to play the important role in the shift of transition temperature (if any) up to the appearance of new ordered phase absent in the bulk ferroic. The approximate analytical expression for the size-induced ferroelectric transition temperature dependence on cylindrical or spherical nanoparticle sizes, polarization gradient coefficient, correlation radius, intrinsic surface stress and electrostriction coefficient was derived. It was shown that the transition temperature of nanoparticle could be higher than the one of the bulk material. The best conditions of ferroelectric properties conservation and enhancement in nanowires correspond to the radius 5-50nm and compressive surface stress. Under the favorable conditions size effects (spatial confinement) induces ferroelectric phase in incipient ferroelectrics nanowires and nanospheres. The prediction of size-induced ferroelectricity in KTaO3 nanorods with radius less then 5-20 nm at room temperatures could be important for the next step of device miniaturization based on 3D nanostructures.

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