Correlation between Imprint and Long-Time Polarization Reversal under Low Fields in Ferroelectric Thin Films

Abstract

Time interval of slow polarization reversal in ferroelectric thin films is broadened over more than two decades to disobey the classical Kolmogorov–Avrami–Ishibashi (KAI) equation as the applied field approaches the coercive field of domain switching. The assumption of a Lorentzian distribution of logarithmic waiting times of reversed domain nucleation in this equation can resolve this dilemma. In our work, we explain this equation from the coercive-voltage distribution in thin films, and derive a similar function to describe slow polarization reversal from the consideration of a long-time imprint effect rather than the KAI model.