Insights into strain engineering: from ferroelectrics to related functional materials and beyond

T Li, S Deng, H Liu, J Chen - Chemical Reviews, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Ferroelectrics have become indispensable components in various application fields,
including information processing, energy harvesting, and electromechanical conversion …

Strain tuning of ferroelectric thin films

DG Schlom, LQ Chen, CB Eom, KM Rabe… - Annu. Rev. Mater …, 2007‏ - annualreviews.org
Predictions and measurements of the effect of biaxial strain on the properties of epitaxial
ferroelectric thin films and superlattices are reviewed. Results for single-layer ferroelectric …

Signatures of ambient pressure superconductivity in thin film La3Ni2O7

EK Ko, Y Yu, Y Liu, L Bhatt, J Li, V Thampy, CT Kuo… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Recently, the bilayer nickelate La3Ni2O7 has been discovered as a new superconductor
with transition temperature T c near 80 K under high pressure1–3. Despite extensive …

Extreme tensile strain states in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 membranes

SS Hong, M Gu, M Verma, V Harbola, BY Wang, D Lu… - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
A defining feature of emergent phenomena in complex oxides is the competition and
cooperation between ground states. In manganites, the balance between metallic and …

Control of polarization in bulk ferroelectrics by mechanical dislocation imprint

M Höfling, X Zhou, LM Riemer, E Bruder, B Liu, L Zhou… - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
Defects are essential to engineering the properties of functional materials ranging from
semiconductors and superconductors to ferroics. Whereas point defects have been widely …

Dependence of the critical temperature in overdoped copper oxides on superfluid density

I Božović, X He, J Wu, AT Bollinger - Nature, 2016‏ - nature.com
The physics of underdoped copper oxide superconductors, including the pseudogap, spin
and charge ordering and their relation to superconductivity,,, is intensely debated. The …

Elastic strain engineering of ferroic oxides

DG Schlom, LQ Chen, CJ Fennie, V Gopalan… - Mrs Bulletin, 2014‏ - cambridge.org
Using epitaxy and the misfit strain imposed by an underlying substrate, it is possible to
elastically strain oxide thin films to percent levels—far beyond where they would crack in …

Strain-mediated phase crossover in Ruddlesden–Popper nickelates

T Cui, S Choi, T Lin, C Liu, G Wang, N Wang… - Communications …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Recent progress on the signatures of pressure-induced high-temperature superconductivity
in Ruddlesden–Popper (RP) nickelates (La n+ 1Ni n O3 n+ 1) has attracted growing interest …

Room-temperature ferroelectricity in strained SrTiO3

JH Haeni, P Irvin, W Chang, R Uecker, P Reiche, YL Li… - Nature, 2004‏ - nature.com
Abstract Systems with a ferroelectric to paraelectric transition in the vicinity of room
temperature are useful for devices. Adjusting the ferroelectric transition temperature (T c) is …

Enhancement of Ferroelectricity in Strained BaTiO3 Thin Films

KJ Choi, M Biegalski, YL Li, A Sharan, J Schubert… - Science, 2004‏ - science.org
Biaxial compressive strain has been used to markedly enhance the ferroelectric properties
of BaTiO3 thin films. This strain, imposed by coherent epitaxy, can result in a ferroelectric …