Antiferroelectric oxide thin-films: Fundamentals, properties, and applications

Y Si, T Zhang, C Liu, S Das, B Xu, RG Burkovsky… - Progress in Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Antiferroelectrics have received blooming interests because of a wide range of potential
applications in energy storage, solid-state cooling, thermal switch, transducer, actuation, and …

Synthesis of Single Crystals of -Iron and Direct Measurements of Its Elastic Constants

A Dewaele, B Amadon, A Bosak, V Svitlyk, F Occelli - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Seismology finds that Earth's solid inner core behaves anisotropically. Interpretation of this
requires a knowledge of crystalline elastic anisotropy of its constituents—the major phase …

On the possibility that PbZrO3 not be antiferroelectric

H Aramberri, C Cazorla, M Stengel… - npj Computational …, 2021 - nature.com
Lead zirconate (PbZrO3) is considered the prototypical antiferroelectric material with an
antipolar ground state. Yet, several experimental and theoretical works hint at a partially …

Correlating hidden local structural distortion with antiferroelectric-ferroelectric transition in PbZrO3-based perovskites

H Liu, Z Sun, L Li, B Gao, Y Zhang, H Qi, K Kato… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Externally stimulated antiferroelectric-ferroelectric (AFE-FE) transition makes AFE materials
attractive for many applications ranging from energy storage to sensing. This transition …

Field-induced heterophase state in thin films

RG Burkovsky, GA Lityagin, AE Ganzha, AF Vakulenko… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Applications of epitaxial antiferroelectrics face scientific challenges, such as limited
understanding of degraded (in comparison to bulk) switching behavior and its relation to …

Order-disorder transition in the prototypical antiferroelectric

B Xu, O Hellman, L Bellaiche - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
The prototypical antiferroelectric PbZrO 3 has several unsettled questions, such as the
nature of the antiferroelectric transition, a possible intermediate phase, and the microscopic …

Comparison between mechanisms and microstructures of , and phase transitions in iron

R Fréville, A Dewaele, N Bruzy, V Svitlyk, G Garbarino - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Iron α↔ ε, α→ γ, and γ→ ε transformations have been characterized in diamond anvil cells
under hydrostatic compression conditions. In situ x-ray diffraction of single or oligocrystals …

New opportunities for high pressure X-ray absorption spectroscopy at ID24-DCM and BM23 with the Extremely Brilliant Source of the ESRF

AD Rosa, G Garbarino, JE Rodrigues, E Mijit… - High Pressure …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Here we present the new experimental stations devoted to the studies of matter under
extreme conditions at the X-ray absorption beamlines BM23 and ID24-DCM that were …

Incommensurate crystal structure of PbHfO3

A Bosak, V Svitlyk, A Arakcheeva… - … Section B: Structural …, 2020 - journals.iucr.org
Controversy in the description/identification of so-called intermediate phase (s) in PbHfO3,
stable in the range∼ 420–480 K, has existed for a few decades. A synchrotron diffraction …

Multiple structural components and their competition in the intermediate state of antiferroelectric

Z An, H Yokota, N Zhang, M Paściak, J Fábry… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Antiferroelectric perovskites form an important family of functional electric materials, which
have high potential in energy storage and conversion applications. However, a full …