Toward High‐Quality Epitaxial LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 Thin Films for Acoustic and Optical Applications

A Bartasyte, S Margueron, T Baron… - Advanced Materials …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past five decades, LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 single crystals and thin films have been
studied intensively for their exceptional acoustic, electro‐optical, and pyroelectric and …

Tetragonal CH3NH3PbI3 is ferroelectric

Y Rakita, O Bar-Elli, E Meirzadeh… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Halide perovskite (HaP) semiconductors are revolutionizing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy
conversion by showing remarkable performance of solar cells made with HaPs, especially …

Micro-and nano-domain engineering in lithium niobate

VY Shur, AR Akhmatkhanov, IS Baturin - Applied Physics Reviews, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The physical basis of the domain engineering in ferroelectrics and its application to lithium
niobate crystals were reviewed. The unified kinetic approach to the domain structure …

Light‐mediated ferroelectric domain engineering and micro‐structuring of lithium niobate crystals

CYJ Ying, AC Muir, CE Valdivia… - Laser & photonics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
An overview is presented of recently developed light‐mediated methods for ferroelectric
domain engineering of lithium niobate single crystals. These methods include light‐assisted …

LiNbO3 surfaces from a microscopic perspective

S Sanna, WG Schmidt - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A large number of oxides has been investigated in the last twenty years as possible new
materials for various applications ranging from opto-electronics to heterogeneous catalysis …

Visualization of ferroelectric domains in bulk single crystals

E Soergel - Applied Physics B, 2005 - Springer
In recent years ferroelectric domain patterning has become a popular topic of physical
research because it enables photonic applications as well as data storage. For generation of …

Femtosecond-laser-assisted high-aspect-ratio nanolithography in lithium niobate

T Wang, X Cheng, X Li, J Ma, S Yan, X Hu, K Qi, W Fan… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the successful fabrication of high-aspect-ratio lithium niobate (LN) nanostructures
by using femtosecond-laser-assisted chemical etching. In this technique, a 1 kHz …

Differential etch rates in z-cut LiNbO 3 for variable HF/HNO 3 concentrations

CL Sones, S Mailis, WS Brocklesby… - Journal of Materials …, 2002 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the experimental measurements for etch rates of the+ z and− z faces of single
crystal lithium niobate immersed in HF and HNO3 acid mixtures of varying ratios. We find …

Microscale to nanoscale ferroelectric domain and surface engineering of a near-stoichiometric crystal

K Terabe, M Nakamura, S Takekawa… - Applied physics …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
We have investigated microscale to nanoscale ferroelectric domain and surface engineering
of a near-stoichiometric LiNbO 3 crystal by using scanning force microscopy. The single …

Chemistry of ferroelectric surfaces

K Garrity, AM Kolpak, S Ismail‐Beigi, EI Altman - 2010 - Wiley Online Library
It has been recognized since the 1950s that the polar and switchable nature of ferroelectric
surfaces can potentially lead to polarization direction‐dependent surface chemistry. Recent …