Topological phases in polar oxide nanostructures

J Junquera, Y Nahas, S Prokhorenko, L Bellaiche… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The past decade has witnessed dramatic progress related to various aspects of emergent
topological polar textures in oxide nanostructures displaying vortices, skyrmions, merons …

Recent progress on topological structures in ferroic thin films and heterostructures

S Chen, S Yuan, Z Hou, Y Tang, J Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Topological spin/polarization structures in ferroic materials continue to draw great attention
as a result of their fascinating physical behaviors and promising applications in the field of …

High-density switchable skyrmion-like polar nanodomains integrated on silicon

L Han, C Addiego, S Prokhorenko, M Wang, H Fu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Topological domains in ferroelectrics,,,–have received much attention recently
owing to their novel functionalities and potential applications, in electronic devices. So far …

Topology and control of self-assembled domain patterns in low-dimensional ferroelectrics

Y Nahas, S Prokhorenko, Q Zhang, V Govinden… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Whilst often discussed as non-trivial phases of low-dimensional ferroelectrics, modulated
polar phases such as the dipolar maze and the nano-bubble state have been appraised as …

Entangled polarizations in ferroelectrics: A focused review of polar topologies

YJ Wang, YL Tang, YL Zhu, XL Ma - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Ferroelectric crystals feature asymmetric or polar structures that are switchable under an
external electric field, holding promise for information storage. Nanoscale ferroelectrics …

Spherical ferroelectric solitons

V Govinden, S Prokhorenko, Q Zhang, S Rijal… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Spherical ferroelectric domains, such as electrical bubbles, polar skyrmion bubbles and
hopfions, share a single and unique feature—their homogeneously polarized cores are …

[HTML][HTML] A new era in ferroelectrics

S Das, Z Hong, M McCarter, P Shafer, YT Shao… - APL Materials, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Topological structures in ferroic materials have drawn great interest in recent years due to
the richness of the underlying physics and the potential for applications in next generation …

Motion and teleportation of polar bubbles in low-dimensional ferroelectrics

S Prokhorenko, Y Nahas, V Govinden, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Electric bubbles are sub-10nm spherical vortices of electric dipoles that can spontaneously
form in ultra-thin ferroelectrics. While the static properties of electric bubbles are well …

Oxygen vacancy injection as a pathway to enhancing electromechanical response in ferroelectrics

KP Kelley, AN Morozovska, EA Eliseev… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since their discovery in late 1940s, perovskite ferroelectric materials have become one of
the central objects of condensed matter physics and materials science due to the broad …

Atomic scale crystal field mapping of polar vortices in oxide superlattices

S Susarla, P García-Fernández, C Ophus, S Das… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Polar vortices in oxide superlattices exhibit complex polarization topologies. Using a
combination of electron energy loss near-edge structure analysis, crystal field multiplet …