High‐performance ferroelectric materials are widely used in various electronic devices
owing to the function of mutual conversion among different energies, which mainly relates to …

Chemical pressure, a strange but familiar concept, is a lattice internal force caused by lattice
strain with chemical modifications and arouses great interest due to its diversity and …

A novel chiral nematic phase with a polar helical order is realized via the introduction of
helical twisting power into a polar nematogen. The properties of the induced polar nematic …

The devil's staircase, describing step-like function for two competing frequencies, is well
known over a wide range of dynamic systems including Huyghens' clocks, Josephson …

Abstract Domain walls and phase boundaries are fundamental ingredients of ferroelectrics
and strongly influence their functional properties. Although both interfaces have been …

The magnetic and electric dipoles of ferroics play a central role in their fascinating
properties. In particular, topological configurations have shown promising potential for use in …

Freestanding ferroelectric oxide membranes emerge as a promising platform for exploring
the interplay between topological polar ordering and dipolar interactions that are …

The microscopic origin of the electric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (eDMI) is unveiled
and discussed by analytical analysis and first-principles based calculations. As similar to the …

High-entropy materials (HEMs) have recently emerged as a prominent research focus in
materials science, gaining considerable attention because of their complex composition and …

Skyrmions can form regular arrangements, so-called skyrmion crystals (SkXs). A mode with
multiple wavevectors q then describes the arrangement. While magnetic SkXs, which can …