Home
About/Contact
Newsletters
Events/Seminars
2020 IPS Conference
Study Materials
Corporate Members
Ferroelectric exchange bias affects interfacial electronic states
Gal Tuvia , Yiftach Frenkel , Prasanna Komar Rout , Itai Silber , Beena Kalisky , Yoram Dagan
Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
Department of Physics and Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
In polar oxide interfaces phenomena such as conductivity, superconductivity, magnetism, one-dimensional conductivity and Quantum Hall states can emerge at the polar discontinuity. Combining controllable ferroelectricity in such interfaces can affect the superconducting properties and shed light on the mutual effects between the polar oxide and the ferroelectric one. In addition, ferroelectric interfaces can be used in non-magnetic memory devices. Here we study the interface between the polar oxide LaAlO3 and the ferroelectric Ca-doped SrTiO3 by means of electrical transport combined with local imaging of the current flow using scanning SQUID. An anomalous behavior of the interface resistivity is observed at low temperatures. Using the SQUID imaging we find this behavior to originate from an intrinsic bias induced by the polar LaAlO3 layer. This intrinsic bias combined with ferroelectricity strongly constrains the possible structural domain tiling near the interface. We suggest this intrinsic bias as a way to control and tune the initial state of ferroelectric materials. The hysteretic dependence of the normal and the superconducting state properties on gate voltage can be utilized in multifaceted controllable memory devices.