The short-circuit photocurrent was measured in ferroelectric capacitors of polycrystalline and epitaxial quality. The interest was to study the possible relation between photocurrent and back-switching phenomena due to ferroelectric polarization imprint, as suggested by Pintilie et al. [J. Appl. Phys. 101, 064109 (2007)]. An interesting relation between the shape of the ferroelectric hysteresis loop and the shape of the photocurrent spectral distribution was found. In polycrystalline samples, the shape of spectral distribution and the sign of photocurrent are changing in time, although the hysteresis is almost symmetrical. However, the hysteresis is not rectangular as in the case of epitaxial films. This behavior suggests a subtle relation between polarization back-switching and photocurrent. In epitaxial samples a peculiar dependence between photocurrent and polarization imprint was found. All these are explained assuming the presence of an internal field, possibly generated by charged defects, which can change its direction and magnitude under illumination, with consequence on the orientation and magnitude of the ferroelectric polarization, and on the sign/shape of the short-circuit photocurrent spectral distribution.
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1 June 2010
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June 10 2010
About the complex relation between short-circuit photocurrent, imprint and polarization in ferroelectric thin films
L. Pintilie;
L. Pintilie
1
National Institute of Materials Physics
, P.O. Box MG-7, Bucharest-Magurele 077125, Romania
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V. Stancu;
V. Stancu
1
National Institute of Materials Physics
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E. Vasile;
E. Vasile
2
METAV-C.D.S.A.
, Rosetti Street No. 21, Bucharest 020011, Romania
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I. Pintilie
I. Pintilie
a)
1
National Institute of Materials Physics
, P.O. Box MG-7, Bucharest-Magurele 077125, Romania
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L. Pintilie
1
V. Stancu
1
E. Vasile
2
I. Pintilie
1,a)
1
National Institute of Materials Physics
, P.O. Box MG-7, Bucharest-Magurele 077125, Romania
2
METAV-C.D.S.A.
, Rosetti Street No. 21, Bucharest 020011, Romania
J. Appl. Phys. 107, 114111 (2010)
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February 11 2010
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May 08 2010
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L. Pintilie, V. Stancu, E. Vasile, I. Pintilie; About the complex relation between short-circuit photocurrent, imprint and polarization in ferroelectric thin films. J. Appl. Phys. 1 June 2010; 107 (11): 114111. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3445877
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