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- Interfacial strain engineering can transform materials and create new properties, but its effectiveness is limited to a small spatial area, particularly in 2D thin films where the critical thickness for maintaining strain is under 20 nm.
- Creating a 3D interface can address these limitations by allowing strain effects to extend deeper into thicker materials like BaZrO thin films.
- The unique out-of-phase boundary (OPB) structure formed in BaZrO due to lattice mismatch enhances strain distribution and maintains ferroelectric properties, with a notable ferroelectricity measurement of 13 μC/cm along the thickness.
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Interfacial strain engineering can induce structural transformation and introduce new physical properties into materials, which is an effective method to prepare new multifunctional materials. However, interfacial strain has a limited spatial impact size. For example, in 2D thin films, the critical thickness of biaxial strain is typically less than 20 nm, which is not conducive to the maintenance of a strained structure and properties in thick film materials. The construction of a 3D interface can solve this problem. The large lattice mismatch between the BaZrO thin film and the substrate can induce the out-of-phase boundary (OPB) structure, which can extend along the thickness direction with the stacking of atoms. The lattice distortion at the OPB structure can provide a clamping effect for each layer of atoms, thus expanding the spatial influence range of biaxial strain. As a result, the uniform in-plane strain distribution and strain-induced ferroelectricity ( = 13 μC/cm) are maintained along the thickness direction in BaZrO films.
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