Ultrahigh energy storage in superparaelectric relaxor ferroelectrics

H Pan, S Lan, S Xu, Q Zhang, H Yao, Y Liu, F Meng… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Electrostatic energy storage technology based on dielectrics is fundamental to advanced
electronics and high-power electrical systems. Recently, relaxor ferroelectrics characterized …

Low energy consumption spintronics using multiferroic heterostructures

M Trassin - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the recent progress in the field of multiferroic magnetoelectric heterostructures.
The lack of single phase multiferroic candidates exhibiting simultaneously strong and …

Probing ferroic states in oxide thin films using optical second harmonic generation

J Nordlander, G De Luca, N Strkalj, M Fiebig… - Applied Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Forthcoming low-energy consumption oxide electronics rely on the deterministic control of
ferroelectric and multiferroic domain states at the nanoscale. In this review, we address the …

Revealing the Polarizations of Molecular Ferroelectrics via SHG Polarimetry at the Nanoscale

GW Du, YA **ong, Q Pan, ZJ Feng, XX Cao, J Yao… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Multifarious molecular ferroelectrics with multipolar axial characteristics have emerged in
recent years, enriching the scenarios for energy harvesting, sensing, and information …

Metal-free ferroelectric halide perovskite exhibits visible photoluminescence correlated with local ferroelectricity

T Handa, R Hashimoto, G Yumoto, T Nakamura… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Perovskite materials with tunable electronic and structural characteristics can realize various
physical properties including electrical/ionic conduction, ferroelectricity, and luminescence …

High‐Throughput Scanning Second‐Harmonic‐Generation Microscopy for Polar Materials

Y Zhang, Y Tan, Y Dong, L Dai, C Ren… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Materials Genome Initiative aims to discover, develop, manufacture, and
deploy advanced materials at twice the speed of conventional approaches. To achieve this …

Implementing (K, Na) NbO3-based lead-free ferroelectric films to piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers

Y Huang, L Shu, F Hu, L Liu, Z Zhou, S Zhang, W Li… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (pMUTs) have attracted widespread
attentions on account of their vital applications in medical imaging, fingerprint identification …

Nanoscale design of polarization in ultrathin ferroelectric heterostructures

G De Luca, N Strkalj, S Manz, C Bouillet… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The success of oxide electronics depends on the ability to design functional properties such
as ferroelectricity with atomic accuracy. However, despite tremendous advances in …

Defeating depolarizing fields with artificial flux closure in ultrathin ferroelectrics

E Gradauskaite, QN Meier, N Gray, MF Sarott… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Material surfaces encompass structural and chemical discontinuities that often lead to the
loss of the property of interest in so-called dead layers. It is particularly problematic in …

[HTML][HTML] Delineating complex ferroelectric domain structures via second harmonic generation spectral imaging

W Li, Y Ma, T Feng, Z Du, Y Liu, SV Kalinin, JF Li… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the mechanisms and spatial correlations of crystallographic symmetry
breaking in ferroelectric materials is essential to tuning their functional properties. While …