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 …

New modalities of strain-control of ferroelectric thin films

AR Damodaran, JC Agar, S Pandya… - Journal of Physics …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Ferroelectrics, with their spontaneous switchable electric polarization and strong coupling
between their electrical, mechanical, thermal, and optical responses, provide functionalities …

Observation of polar vortices in oxide superlattices

AK Yadav, CT Nelson, SL Hsu, Z Hong, JD Clarkson… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The complex interplay of spin, charge, orbital and lattice degrees of freedom provides a
plethora of exotic phases and physical phenomena,,,,. In recent years, complex spin …

Real-space imaging of non-collinear antiferromagnetic order with a single-spin magnetometer

I Gross, W Akhtar, V Garcia, LJ Martínez, S Chouaieb… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Although ferromagnets have many applications, their large magnetization and the resulting
energy cost for switching magnetic moments bring into question their suitability for reliable …

Tuning magnetic anisotropy by interfacially engineering the oxygen coordination environment in a transition metal oxide

D Kan, R Aso, R Sato, M Haruta, H Kurata… - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
Strong correlations between electrons, spins and lattices—stemming from strong
hybridization between transition metal d and oxygen p orbitals—are responsible for the …

Phase coexistence and electric-field control of toroidal order in oxide superlattices

AR Damodaran, JD Clarkson, Z Hong, H Liu… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Systems that exhibit phase competition, order parameter coexistence, and
emergent order parameter topologies constitute a major part of modern condensed-matter …

Stability of polar vortex lattice in ferroelectric superlattices

Z Hong, AR Damodaran, F Xue, SL Hsu, J Britson… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
A novel mesoscale state comprising of an ordered polar vortex lattice has been
demonstrated in ferroelectric superlattices of PbTiO3/SrTiO3. Here, we employ phase-field …

Manipulating topological transformations of polar structures through real-time observation of the dynamic polarization evolution

K Du, M Zhang, C Dai, ZN Zhou, YW Xie… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Topological structures based on controllable ferroelectric or ferromagnetic domain
configurations offer the opportunity to develop microelectronic devices such as high-density …

Strain and orientation engineering in ABO3 perovskite oxide thin films

D Sando - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Perovskite oxides with chemical formula ABO 3 are widely studied for their properties
including ferroelectricity, magnetism, strongly correlated physics, optical effects, and …

In-plane quasi-single-domain BaTiO3 via interfacial symmetry engineering

JW Lee, K Eom, TR Paudel, B Wang, H Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The control of the in-plane domain evolution in ferroelectric thin films is not only critical to
understanding ferroelectric phenomena but also to enabling functional device fabrication …