Ferroelectric perovskites such as BaTiO 3 and Pb (Zr, Ti) O 3 are well-suited for a variety of
applications including piezoelectric transducers and actuators, multilayer ceramic …

Barium titanate (BaTiO3) is a synthetic crystal used in electromechanical transducers and
multilayer ceramic capacitors. Since it is not available in nature, a variety of growth methods …

The rapid development of optical metasurfaces, 2D ensembles of engineered
nanostructures, is presently underpinning a steady drive toward the miniaturization of many …

Nonlinear photon conversion is a fundamental physical process that lies on the basis of
many modern disciplines, from bioimaging and theranostics in nanomedicine to material …

Optical contrasts in microscopy are sensitive to light polarization, whose interaction with
molecular dipoles provides an important lever for probing molecular orientation. Polarization …

Ferroelectric materials display exotic polarization textures at the nanoscale that could be
used to improve the energetic efficiency of electronic components. The vast majority of …

Metal‐oxides are promising candidates to substitute silicon in intra‐chip optical
interconnects, as they exhibit great electric field tuning capabilities. The development of …

Polar domain walls are currently at the focus of intensive research owing to their unusual
and highly localized functional properties, which bear great potential for technological …

With the miniaturization of electronic‐based devices, the foreseen potential of new optical
nanoprobes and the assessment of eventual size and shape effects, elaboration of …

Nonlinear crystals that have a noncentrosymmetric crystalline structure, such as lithium
niobate (LiNbO3) and barium titanate (BaTiO3) exhibit nonzero second-order tensor …