Physical reality of the Preisach model for organic ferroelectrics

Indrė Urbanavičiūtė, Tim D. Cornelissen, Xiao Meng, Rint P. Sijbesma and Martijn Kemerink ()
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Indrė Urbanavičiūtė: Linköping University
Tim D. Cornelissen: Linköping University
Xiao Meng: Eindhoven University of Technology
Rint P. Sijbesma: Eindhoven University of Technology
Martijn Kemerink: Linköping University

Nature Communications, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: Abstract The Preisach model has been a cornerstone in the fields of ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity since its inception. It describes a real, non-ideal, ferroic material as the sum of a distribution of ideal ‘hysterons’. However, the physical reality of the model in ferroelectrics has been hard to establish. Here, we experimentally determine the Preisach (hysteron) distribution for two ferroelectric systems and show how its broadening directly relates to the materials’ morphology. We connect the Preisach distribution to measured microscopic switching kinetics that underlay the macroscopic dispersive switching kinetics as commonly observed for practical ferroelectrics. The presented results reveal that the in principle mathematical construct of the Preisach model has a strong physical basis and is a powerful tool to explain polarization switching at all time scales in different types of ferroelectrics. These insights lead to guidelines for further advancement of the ferroelectric materials both for conventional and multi-bit data storage applications.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06717-w

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