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Segregation and properties at curved vs straight (0001) inversion boundaries in piezotronic ZnO bicrystals

Trapp, Maximilian ; Keil, Peter ; Frömling, Till ; Rödel, Jürgen ; Kleebe, Hans‐Joachim (2022)
Segregation and properties at curved vs straight (0001) inversion boundaries in piezotronic ZnO bicrystals.
In: Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2020, 103 (4)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00020195
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Item Type: Article
Type of entry: Secondary publication
Title: Segregation and properties at curved vs straight (0001) inversion boundaries in piezotronic ZnO bicrystals
Language: English
Date: 2022
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Year of primary publication: 2020
Publisher: American Ceramic Society
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Volume of the journal: 103
Issue Number: 4
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00020195
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Origin: Secondary publication service
Abstract:

TEM and SEM investigations of ZnO bicrystal interfaces were undertaken with an aim to study the correlation of local grain-boundary structure, segregation, and elec-trical transport perpendicular to the interface. To this end, varistor-like ZnO bicrystals with piezotronic characteristics were chosen with (0001)║(0001) tail-to-tail orienta-tion with respect to the c-axis. In order to contrast different local grain-boundary structures with different coherency and segregation of bismuth, but identical macro-scopic polarization state, two complementary processing techniques were applied. A diffusion-bonded bicrystal with an intermediate thin film containing Zn–Bi–Co–O provided a straight interface as reference. In contrast, a ZnO bicrystal prepared by epitaxial solid-state transformation was manufactured by bonding two ZnO single crystals with a 100 μm thick polycrystalline ZnO varistor material with a typical dopant composition including bismuth and cobalt. This structure was annealed to the point that a bicrystal was formed with the varistor concentration at the boundary, which was strongly curved due to the polycrystalline microstructure still providing a shadow image at the interface. The results highlight a distinct correlation between local interfacial morphology, degree of segregation of bismuth, and degree of non-linearity of the electrical transport across the interface.

Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-201954
Classification DDC: 600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 620 Engineering and machine engineering
Divisions: 11 Department of Materials and Earth Sciences > Earth Science > Geo-Material-Science
11 Department of Materials and Earth Sciences > Material Science > Nonmetallic-Inorganic Materials
Date Deposited: 25 Mar 2022 13:23
Last Modified: 20 Mar 2023 08:24
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/20195
PPN: 506133192
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