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Influence of Uniaxial Tensile Stress on the Mechanical and Piezoelectric Properties of Short-period Ferroelectric Superlattice
1 Department of Physics, China University of Mining and Technology, 221116, Xuzhou, People’s Republic of China
2 School of Aerospace, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 710049, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China
3 Department of Engineering Mechanics, AML, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Nanoscale Research Letters 2009, 5:448-452 doi:10.1007/s11671-009-9497-1
Published: 28 November 2009Abstract
Tetragonal ferroelectric/ferroelectric
superlattice under uniaxial tensile stress along the c axis is investigated from first principles. We show that the calculated ideal tensile
strength is 6.85 GPa and that the superlattice under the loading of uniaxial tensile
stress becomes soft along the nonpolar axes. We also find that the appropriately applied
uniaxial tensile stress can significantly enhance the piezoelectricity for the superlattice,
with piezoelectric coefficient d33 increasing from the ground state value by a factor of about 8, reaching 678.42 pC/N.
The underlying mechanism for the enhancement of piezoelectricity is discussed.
