Ferroelectric materials have been a focus of much research over the last few decades for
their unique piezoelectric and optoelectronic properties. Conventional solar cells have been …

Ferroelectric materials, because of their robust spontaneous electrical polarization, are
widely used in various applications. Recent advances in modelling, synthesis and …

Abstract Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO 3, BFO) as one of the few single-phase room-temperature
multiferroics, has aroused ever-increasing enthusiasm in research communities during the …

Among the different types of multiferroic compounds, bismuth ferrite (BiFeO 3; BFO) stands
out because it is perhaps the only one being simultaneously magnetic and strongly …

The technological appeal of multiferroics is the ability to control magnetism with electric
field,,. For devices to be useful, such control must be achieved at room temperature. The …

Multiferroics are those materials with more than one ferroic order, and magnetoelectricity
refers to the mutual coupling between magnetism (spins and/or magnetic field) and …

In conventional solid-state photovoltaics, electron–hole pairs are created by light absorption
in a semiconductor and separated by the electric field spaning a micrometre-thick depletion …

The celebrated renaissance of the multiferroics family over the past ten years has also been
that of its most paradigmatic member, bismuth ferrite (BiFeO 3). Known since the 1960s to be …

Ferroelectric domain walls naturally form at nanoscale interfaces of polar order leading to
electronic properties distinct from the bulk that can also be electrically programmed. These …

Controlling the domain evolution is critical both for optimizing ferroelectric properties and for
designing functional electronic devices. Here we report an approach of using the Schottky …