Room-temperature stabilizing strongly competing ferrielectric and antiferroelectric phases in PbZrO3 by strain-mediated phase separation

Z Yu, N Fan, Z Fu, B He, S Yan, H Cai, X Chen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
PbZrO3 has been broadly considered as a prototypical antiferroelectric material for high-
power energy storage. A recent theoretical study suggests that the ground state of PbZrO3 is …

A Roadmap for Ferroelectric–Antiferroelectric Phase Transition

RJ Jiang, YL Tang, SZ Liu, MX Zhu, C Li, YP Feng… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Antiferroelectric materials have shown great potential in electronic devices benefiting from
the reversible phase transition between ferroelectric and antiferroelectric phases …

Coexistence of ferroelectric and ferrielectric phases in ultrathin antiferroelectric PbZrO3 thin films

Y Liu, R Niu, R Uriach, D Pesquera, JMC Roque… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Whereas ferroelectricity may vanish in ultra-thin ferroelectric films, it is expected to emerge in
ultra-thin anti-ferroelectric films, sparking people's interest in using antiferroelectric materials …

Finite-temperature properties of the antiferroelectric perovskite from a deep-learning interatomic potential

H Zhang, HC Thong, L Bastogne, C Gui, X He… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The prototypical antiferroelectric perovskite PbZrO 3 (PZO) has garnered considerable
attention in recent years due to its significance in technological applications and …

Mimicking Antiferroelectrics with Ferroelectric Superlattices

C Yin, Y Li, E Zatterin, D Rusu, E Stylianidis… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Antiferroelectric oxides are promising materials for applications in high‐density energy
storage, solid‐state cooling, and negative capacitance devices. However, the range of oxide …

Ferroelectric Translational Boundaries Separating Antiferroelectric Domains in Y-Doped HfO2

Y Liu, X Xu, FT Huang, R Niu, J Liu… - ACS Applied …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Domain walls in complex perovskite oxides are known for their unique functional properties
and potential in electronic devices. Hafnium oxide (HfO2)-based ferroelectric and …

[HTML][HTML] An atomistic structural description of the ferrielectric polar phase involving non-coplanar cation displacements

T Pramanik, CS Htet, A Manjón-Sanz, J Liu, S Ullah… - Scripta Materialia, 2025 - Elsevier
Materials with antipolar-polar transformation are attractive for their large functional
responses. However, the antipolar state remains controversial in many materials. For …

Phase transitions in Pb0. 96La0. 04 (Zr0. 95Ti0. 05) O3 capacitors by in-situ AC-HRTEM

X Er, P Chen, Q Zhan - Scripta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Antiferroelectrics (AFEs) undergo reversible antiferroelectric-ferroelectric (AFE-FE) phase
transitions under external electric fields, and show great promise in modern electronic …

Switching Dynamics and Improved Efficiency of Free‐Standing Antiferroelectric Capacitors

U Saeed, D Pesquera, Y Liu, I Fina… - Advanced Electronic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The switching dynamics of antiferroelectric lead zirconate (PbZrO3) freestanding capacitors
compared to their epitaxial counterparts is reported. Frequency dependence of hysteresis …

Investigating the ferroelectric phases of sodium niobate: A computational approach

JAM Alvarenga, JAS Laranjeira, GSL Fabris… - Computational Materials …, 2025 - Elsevier
This study investigates the ferroelectric phases of NaNbO 3 using density functional theory
(DFT) simulations. Special attention is given to the antiferroelectric polymorph Pbcm and the …