Comment on "Interesting Evidence for Template-Induced Ferroelectric Behavior in Ultra-Thin Titanium Dioxide Films Grown on (110) Neodymium Gallium Oxide Substrates"

  • Stella Skiadopoulou
  • , Stanislav Kamba
  • , Jan Drahokoupil
  • , Jan Kroupa
  • , Nitin Deepak
  • , Martyn E. Pemble
  • , Roger W. Whatmore

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    Abstract

    X-ray diffraction, second-harmonic generation and infrared reflectance investigations reveal no evidence for a polar phase or ferroelectric phase transition in 1.6% tensile strained anatase TiO2 thin films. This indicates that the previously-reported potential ferroelectric behaviour, observed using piezoelectric force microscopy, may have been defect related, or the polar distortion is too small to detect using these methods.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)642-646
    Number of pages5
    JournalAdvanced Functional Materials
    Volume26
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2 Feb 2016

    Keywords

    • ferroelectricity
    • IR spectroscopy
    • phonons
    • SHG
    • TiO anatase
    • XRD

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