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Les modifications de la structure chimique de la surface ferroélectrique et électronique en vertu de l'adsorption de l'eau

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Auteur / Autrice : Jiale Wang
Direction : Nicholas BarrettBertrand Vilquin
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Physique
Date : Soutenance en 2013
Etablissement(s) : Paris 6

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The main objective of our research is to understand how the ferroelectric polarization affects the chemi/physisorption of H2O molecules on a ferroelectric surface and how this adsorption may in return affect the chemical and the atomic surface structure and hence the ferroelectric properties. The acquired knowledge may be used to obtain a deeper understanding of light enhanced hydrogen production at a ferroelectric surface, to promote the water photolysis reaction, by favoring the electron-hole separation and the surface reactivity. We have first studied the surface atomic and chemical structure of the model ferroelectric BaTiO3 (001) in the form of epitaxial thin films and single crystals before and after controlled exposure to water. The depolarizing field produced by the surface discontinuity leads to changes in the atomic, chemical and electronic structural changes and reordering. We have also demonstrated the existence of a ferroelectric, quasiamorphous, ultrathin BaTiO3 film. Finally, the surface structure of the uniaxial ferroelectric Sr0. 67Ba0. 33Nb2O6 (001) has been characterized in a first step towards use for photolysis enhancement.