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  • Materials Science
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Nanotechnology

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  • Flexoelectricity offers a route to tune material properties via strain gradients.
  • Achieving atomic-scale control over flexoelectricity in ferroelectric films is challenging due to strain limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate tunable flexoelectric behaviors at the atomic scale in [110]-oriented BiFeO3 thin films.
  • To investigate the role of interfacial dislocations in inducing and controlling flexoelectricity.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM).
  • Analyzed strain-field coupling and polarization rotation around interfacial dislocations.
  • Correlated dislocation spacing with engineered flexoelectric responses.

Main Results:

  • Revealed asymmetric polarization rotation around individual dislocations due to gradient strain fields.
  • Demonstrated that correlated strain fields between dislocations create significant strain gradients.
  • Engineered serial flexoelectric responses by controlling dislocation spacing in BiFeO3 films.

Conclusions:

  • Interfacial dislocations can effectively trigger and modulate atomic-scale flexoelectricity in ferroelectrics.
  • This approach provides a pathway for controlling flexoelectric responses in functional materials.
  • The findings could be extended to other materials for novel phenomena.