Figure 3
(a) Lateral piezoresponse image (1 × 1 µm) of a 23 nm K0.75Na0.25NbO3 epitaxial layer grown on a (110) TbScO3 substrate showing a periodic domain pattern with ∼46 nm periodicity. (b) The 0° domain variant and (c) the 90° domain variant are shown schematically. The corresponding in-plane components of the ferroelectric polarization vector (black arrows) in the individual domains indicate 180° domain walls within one variant. (d), (e) The epitaxial relationships between the K0.75Na0.25NbO3 epitaxial layer (represented by the pseudocubic unit cells) and the underlying (110) TbScO3 substrate for (d) the 0° domain variant and (e) the 90° domain variant. |