Giant enhancement in ferroelectric polarization under illumination

Hitesh Borkar; Vaibhav Rao; M. Tomar; Vinay Gupta; J. F. Scott; Ashok Kumar

doi:10.1016/j.mtcomm.2017.12.004

Giant enhancement in ferroelectric polarization under illumination

Hitesh Borkar, Vaibhav Rao, M. Tomar, Vinay Gupta, J. F. Scott, Ashok Kumar

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We report optical enhancement in polarization and dielectric constant near room temperature in Pb_0.6Li_0.2Bi_0.2Zr_0.2Ti_0.8O₃ (PLBZT) electro-ceramics; these are doubly substituted members of the most important commercial ferroelectric PbZr_0.2Ti_0.8O₃ (PZT:20/80). Partial (40%) substitution of equal amounts of Li⁺¹ and Bi⁺³ in PZT: 20/80 retains the PZT tetragonal structure with space group P4 mm. Under illumination of white light and weak 405 nm near-ultraviolet laser light (30 mW), an unexpectedly large (200-300%) change in polarization and displacement current was observed. Light also changes the dc conduction current density by one to two orders of magnitude with a large switchable open circuit voltage (V_ocv ∼ 2 V) and short circuit current (J_scc∼ 5 × 10⁻⁸ A). The samples show a photo-current ON/OFF ratio of order 6:1 under illumination of weak light.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	116-123
Number of pages	8
Journal	Materials Today Communications
Volume	14
Early online date	16 Dec 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2017.12.004
Publication status	Published - Mar 2018

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