title: Spontaneous ordering, strain control, and multifunctionality in vertical nanocomposite heteroepitaxial films.
abstract: Two-phase nanocomposite heteroepitaxial films with vertical microstructures hold great promise for various (multi)functional (e.g., multiferroic) electronic device applications. With the aim of creating addressable arrays, it is necessary to form spontaneously ordered structures over large areas. However, such structures have not, so far, been demonstrated. We have recently produced remarkable spontaneously ordered phase assemblies and find that these structures form concomitantly with 2-D vertical strain control, i.e., strain in the 2 phases is controlled along the vertical interface between them rather than being influenced by the substrate. In this paper, we report on our findings in the BiFeO3 and BaTiO3 ferroelectric systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. fouchetarnaud@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: Arnaud
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fouchet
authors.forename: Haiyan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jongsik
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.forename: Quanxi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Judith Louise
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: MacManus-Driscoll