Ferroelectric materials have shown great value in the modern semiconductor industry and
are considered important function materials due to their high dielectric constant and tunable …

In ambient atmospheres, aluminum becomes rapidly coated with a compact 2–3 nm thick
oxide layer. This native oxide layer prevents the metal surface from further oxidation …

Memristors are continuously tunable resistors that emulate biological synapses,.
Conceptualized in the 1970s, they traditionally operate by voltage-induced displacements of …

Understanding mesoscale ferroelectric domain structures and their switching behavior
under external fields is critical to applications of ferroelectrics. The phase-field method has …

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) has been used extensively for exploring nanoscale
ferro/piezoelectric phenomena over the past two decades. The imaging mechanism of PFM …

In this work, switching dynamics of poly (vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene)[P (VDF-TrFE)]
copolymer films are investigated over unprecedentedly wide ranges of temperature and …

The deployment of ferroelectrics in device concepts such as Ferroelectric Random Access
Memory and Ferroelectric Field Effect Transistors requires a good understanding of the …

Spontaneous polarization of ferroelectric materials has been for a long time proposed as
binary information support, but it suffers so far from destructive readout. A nondestructive …

The electric-field-driven and reversible polarization switching in ferroelectric materials
provides a promising approach for nonvolatile information storage. With the advent of …

Piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials have garnered significant interest owing to their
excellent physical properties and multiple potential applications. Accordingly, the need for …