Abstract

Ferroelectric switching in unipolar (CH3NH3)5Bi2Br11 crystal has been studied by optical observation of the domain structure in low electric fields and switching current registration in high fields. We discuss investigations on the temporal behaviour of the electric polarization in static electric fields as well as polarization decay after removal of the electric field. The backswitching process appears to have a correlation to a defect-induced internal field in the crystal. For the interpretation of experimental data we utilize the classical nucleation and growth model of phase transformation (e.g. Avrami–Kolmogorov theory). An analysis assuming a statistical distribution of the characteristic domain growth times is proposed to explain and to find the functional form of the experimental data.

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