@article{5b68dff9e2334d0d9fc25c54334bc811,
title = "Simultaneous Large Optical and Piezoelectric Effects Induced by Domain Reconfiguration Related to Ferroelectric Phase Transitions",
abstract = "Electrical switching of ferroelectric domains and subsequent domain wall motion promotes strong piezoelectric activity, however, light scatters at refractive index discontinuities such as those found at domain wall boundaries. Thus, simultaneously achieving large piezoelectric effect and high optical transmissivity is generally deemed infeasible. Here, it is demonstrated that the ferroelectric domains in perovskite Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)O3–Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–PbTiO3 domain-engineered crystals can be manipulated by electrical field and mechanical stress to reversibly and repeatably, with small hysteresis, transform the opaque polydomain structure into a highly transparent monodomain state. This control of optical properties can be achieved at very low electric fields (less than 1.5 kV cm−1) and is accompanied by a large (>10 000 pm V−1) piezoelectric coefficient that is superior to linear state-of-the-art materials by a factor of three or more. The coexistence of tunable optical transmissivity and high piezoelectricity paves the way for a new class of photonic devices.",
author = "Peter Finkel and Cain, {Markys G.} and Thomas Mion and Margo Staruch and Jakub Kolacz and Sukriti Mantri and Chad Newkirk and Kyril Kavetsky and John Thornton and Junhai Xia and Marc Currie and Thomas Hase and Alex Moser and Paul Thompson and Lucas, {Christopher A.} and Andy Fitch and Cairney, {Julie M.} and Moss, {Scott D.} and Nisbet, {Alan Gareth Alexander} and Daniels, {John E.} and Lofland, {Samuel E.}",
note = "Funding Information: Funding for this work was provided by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under Contract No. N001421WX01058. This work was supported in part by the American Society for Engineering Education Fellowship. M.C. acknowledges support by core programs at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory funded by ONRG. Funding for this work (J.E.D.) was provided by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under Award Number N62909‐19‐1‐2090. This was also supported by the Australian Federal Government through the Next Generation Technologies Fund, and the Strategic Research Initiative in Advanced Materials and Sensors. The authors are grateful for the scientific and technical support from the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, the Microscopy Australia (MA) node at the University of Sydney. Parts of this research work was carried out in the framework of the ADVENT project (Grant Number: 16ENG06 ADVENT) which is supported by the European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research (EMPIR). The EMPIR initiative is cofunded by the European's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and the EMPIR Participating States. XMaS, BM28, is a UK National Research Facility funded by EPSRC. The authors acknowledge the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility for X‐ray diffraction experiments performed on beamline ID‐22, Diamond Light Source for time on beamline I16 under proposal MM18924‐1 to perform DMS experiments, and the IMBL beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, part of ANSTO, for the diffuse scattering studies. This article has been contributed to by US Government employees and their work is in the public domain in the USA. Funding Information: Funding for this work was provided by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under Contract No. N001421WX01058. This work was supported in part by the American Society for Engineering Education Fellowship. M.C. acknowledges support by core programs at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory funded by ONRG. Funding for this work (J.E.D.) was provided by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under Award Number N62909-19-1-2090. This was also supported by the Australian Federal Government through the Next Generation Technologies Fund, and the Strategic Research Initiative in Advanced Materials and Sensors. The authors are grateful for the scientific and technical support from the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, the Microscopy Australia (MA) node at the University of Sydney. Parts of this research work was carried out in the framework of the ADVENT project (Grant Number: 16ENG06 ADVENT) which is supported by the European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research (EMPIR). The EMPIR initiative is cofunded by the European's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and the EMPIR Participating States. XMaS, BM28, is a UK National Research Facility funded by EPSRC. The authors acknowledge the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility for X-ray diffraction experiments performed on beamline ID-22, Diamond Light Source for time on beamline I16 under proposal MM18924-1 to perform DMS experiments, and the IMBL beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, part of ANSTO, for the diffuse scattering studies. This article has been contributed to by US Government employees and their work is in the public domain in the USA. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Commonwealth of Australia. Advanced Materials published by Wiley-VCH GmbH",
year = "2022",
month = feb,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1002/adma.202106827",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "34",
journal = "Advanced Materials",
issn = "0935-9648",
publisher = "Wiley-VCH Verlag",
number = "7",
}