The discovery of alternative methods of producing electrical energy that avoid the
generation of greenhouse gases and do not contribute to global warming is a compelling …

A review of the recent development and application of a first-principles-derived effective
Hamiltonian technique to the study of lead-free Ba (Zr, Ti) O 3 (BZT) relaxor ferroelectrics is …

An atomistic numerical scheme is developed and used to study the prototype of relaxor
ferroelectrics, that is PbMg 1/3 Nb 2/3 O 3 (PMN), at finite temperatures. This scheme not …

Relaxor ferroelectrics have applications in transducers and capacitors owing to their
dielectric relaxation. Although the existence of polar nanoregions (PNRs) inside the relaxor …

Metal-to-insulator transitions driven by strong electronic correlations occur frequently in
condensed matter systems, and are associated with remarkable collective phenomena in …

Ferroelectrics are attractive candidate materials for environmentally friendly solid state
refrigeration free of greenhouse gases. Their thermal response upon variations of external …

The fluctuations of electric polarization in a disordered ferroelectric substance, relaxor
crystal PbMg 1/3 Nb 2/3 O 3 (PMN), were studied using a nonlinear inelastic light-scattering …

Relaxor ferroelectrics are complex oxide materials which are rather unique to study the
effects of compositional disorder on phase transitions. Here, we study the effects of …

Superconductivity has been observed in doped SrTiO $ _3 $ at charge-carrier densities
below 10$^{18} $ cm $^{-3} $, where the density of states at the Fermi level of the itinerant …

The epitaxial growth of multifunctional oxides on semiconductors has opened a pathway to
introduce new functionalities to semiconductor device technologies. In particular, the …