Ferroelectric domain walls for nanotechnology

D Meier, SM Selbach - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Ferroelectric domain walls have emerged as a new type of interface in which the dynamic
characteristics of ferroelectricity introduce the element of spatial mobility, allowing real-time …

Domain-wall engineering and topological defects in ferroelectric and ferroelastic materials

GF Nataf, M Guennou, JM Gregg, D Meier… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Ferroelectric and ferroelastic domain walls are 2D topological defects with thicknesses
approaching the unit cell level. When this spatial confinement is combined with observations …

Flexoelectricity in solids: Progress, challenges, and perspectives

B Wang, Y Gu, S Zhang, LQ Chen - Progress in Materials Science, 2019 - Elsevier
The flexoelectricity describes the contribution of the linear couplings between the electric
polarization and strain gradient and between polarization gradient and strain to the …

Nonvolatile ferroelectric domain wall memory integrated on silicon

H Sun, J Wang, Y Wang, C Guo, J Gu, W Mao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ferroelectric domain wall memories have been proposed as a promising candidate for
nonvolatile memories, given their intriguing advantages including low energy consumption …

Flexoelectric effect in solids

P Zubko, G Catalan… - Annual Review of Materials …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Flexoelectricity—the coupling between polarization and strain gradients—is a universal
effect allowed by symmetry in all materials. Following its discovery several decades ago …

Recent progress on topological structures in ferroic thin films and heterostructures

S Chen, S Yuan, Z Hou, Y Tang, J Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Topological spin/polarization structures in ferroic materials continue to draw great attention
as a result of their fascinating physical behaviors and promising applications in the field of …

Free-electron gas at charged domain walls in insulating BaTiO3

T Sluka, AK Tagantsev, P Bednyakov… - Nature communications, 2013 - nature.com
Hetero interfaces between metal-oxides display pronounced phenomena such as
semiconductor-metal transitions, magnetoresistance, the quantum hall effect and …

Physics and applications of charged domain walls

PS Bednyakov, BI Sturman, T Sluka… - npj Computational …, 2018 - nature.com
The charged domain wall is an ultrathin (typically nanosized) interface between two
domains; it carries bound charge owing to a change of normal component of spontaneous …

Ferroelectric domain wall memristor

JPV McConville, H Lu, B Wang, Y Tan… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A domain wall‐enabled memristor is created, in thin film lithium niobate capacitors, which
shows up to twelve orders of magnitude variation in resistance. Such dramatic changes are …

Polarization charge as a reconfigurable quasi-dopant in ferroelectric thin films

A Crassous, T Sluka, AK Tagantsev, N Setter - Nature nanotechnology, 2015 - nature.com
Impurity elements used as dopants are essential to semiconductor technology for controlling
the concentration of charge carriers. Their location in the semiconductor crystal is …