Since the positive influences of defects on the performance of electroceramics were
discovered, investigations concerning on defects and aliovalent doping routes have grown …

Lithium niobate (LN) is one of the most important synthetic crystals. In the past two decades,
many breakthroughs have been made in material technology, theoretical understanding …

By using Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire theory, we numerically calculated the static
conductivity of charged domain walls with different incline angles with respect to the …

Owing to the extraordinary richness of its physical properties, congruent lithium niobate has
attracted multidecade-long interest both for fundamental science and applications. The …

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 …

Lithium niobate and lithium tantalate crystals are technologically important metal oxides with
exceptional combinations of ferroelectric, piezoelectric, acoustic, optical, and electrical …

Density-functional theory calculations of the LiNbO 3 (2 1¯ 1¯ 0),(1 1¯ 00), and (0001)
surfaces, commonly referred to as X, Y, and Z cuts, are presented. In case of the Z cut, we …

Many physical systems considered promising qubit candidates are not, in fact, two-level
systems. Such systems can leak out of the preferred computational states, leading to errors …

Direct observations of the ferroelectric domain boundaries in LiNbO3 are performed using
high‐resolution high‐angle annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy …

Different aspects of ferroelectric LiTaO 3 (LT) such as polaronic defects, optical response
and electrical conductivity are investigated by the most recent theoretical and experimental …