Decay of remanent polarization in ferroelectric films using polarization-dependent photovoltages

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Following polarization reversal, the strength of photovoltaic currents from lead-based perovskite film capacitors shows a dependence on time. An initial photovoltaic current decays rapidly to an almost steady-state current, which then decays slowly. We use a nonswitching surface layer model to explain remanent-polarization-dependent photovoltaic outputs in terms of photocarrier-generated screening of an incompletely compensated depolarization field within the film bulk. The rapid decrease in the initial photovoltaic current (photovoltaic transient) is explained as resulting from a change in the potential distribution within the film. The initial distribution results when charges compensating polarization are confined to the electrodes; the final distribution results when compensating charges occupy defect states within the volume of the surface layers. The slow decay in the steady photovoltaic current is explained as the result of changes in the potential distribution resulting from a slow decay in the remanent polarization. The log time rate of decay of the photovoltaic current is then equal to that of the remanent polarization, its determination serves as a measure of the log time decay rate of remanent polarization.

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