Thin-film ferroelectric materials and their applications

LW Martin, AM Rappe - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Ferroelectric materials, because of their robust spontaneous electrical polarization, are
widely used in various applications. Recent advances in modelling, synthesis and …

Defects and aliovalent doping engineering in electroceramics

Y Feng, J Wu, Q Chi, W Li, Y Yu, W Fei - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Since the positive influences of defects on the performance of electroceramics were
discovered, investigations concerning on defects and aliovalent doping routes have grown …

Two-dimensional ferroelectricity in a single-element bismuth monolayer

J Gou, H Bai, X Zhang, YL Huang, S Duan, A Ariando… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Ferroelectric materials are fascinating for their non-volatile switchable electric polarizations
induced by the spontaneous inversion-symmetry breaking. However, in all of the …

Piezoelectric effect synergistically enhances the performance of Ti32-oxo-cluster/BaTiO3/CuS pn heterojunction photocatalytic degradation of pollutants

L Zhou, S Dai, S Xu, Y She, Y Li, S Leveneur… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2021 - Elsevier
A cyclic Ti 32-oxo-cluster (CTOC)/BaTiO 3/CuS three-layer heterojunction material that can
effectively use visible light and vibration energy for photo-piezoelectric synergistic catalytic …

Ultrahigh capacitive energy density in ion-bombarded relaxor ferroelectric films

J Kim, S Saremi, M Acharya, G Velarde, E Parsonnet… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Dielectric capacitors can store and release electric energy at ultrafast rates and are
extensively studied for applications in electronics and electric power systems. Among …

Strain-induced room-temperature ferroelectricity in SrTiO3 membranes

R Xu, J Huang, ES Barnard, SS Hong, P Singh… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Advances in complex oxide heteroepitaxy have highlighted the enormous potential of
utilizing strain engineering via lattice mismatch to control ferroelectricity in thin-film …

Internal‐Field‐Enhanced Charge Separation in a Single‐Domain Ferroelectric PbTiO3 Photocatalyst

Y Liu, S Ye, H Xie, J Zhu, Q Shi, N Ta… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ferroelectric materials with spontaneous polarization‐induced internal electric fields have
drawn increasing attention in solar fuel production due to the intrinsic polarized structure …

Toroidal polar topology in strained ferroelectric polymer

M Guo, C Guo, J Han, S Chen, S He, T Tang, Q Li… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Polar topological texture has become an emerging research field for exotic phenomena and
potential applications in reconfigurable electronic devices. We report toroidal topological …

Enabling ultra-low-voltage switching in BaTiO3

Y Jiang, E Parsonnet, A Qualls, W Zhao, S Susarla… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Single crystals of BaTiO3 exhibit small switching fields and energies, but thin-film
performance is considerably worse, thus precluding their use in next-generation devices …

Defects in complex oxide thin films for electronics and energy applications: challenges and opportunities

W Li, J Shi, KHL Zhang, JL MacManus-Driscoll - Materials Horizons, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Complex transition-metal oxides (TMOs) are critical materials for cutting-edge electronics
and energy-related technologies, on the basis of their intriguing properties including …