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 …

Interplay of domain structure and phase transitions: theory, experiment and functionality

A Grünebohm, M Marathe… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Domain walls and phase boundaries are fundamental ingredients of ferroelectrics
and strongly influence their functional properties. Although both interfaces have been …

“Seeing is believing”—In-depth analysis by co-imaging of periodically-poled x-cut lithium niobate thin films

S Reitzig, M Rüsing, J Zhao, B Kirbus, S Mookherjea… - Crystals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nonlinear and quantum optical devices based on periodically-poled thin film lithium niobate
(PP-TFLN) have gained considerable interest lately, due to their significantly improved …

Shedding light on non-Ising polar domain walls: Insight from second harmonic generation microscopy and polarimetry analysis

S Cherifi-Hertel, C Voulot, U Acevedo-Salas… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Polar domain walls are currently at the focus of intensive research owing to their unusual
and highly localized functional properties, which bear great potential for technological …

[HTML][HTML] Avalanches from charged domain wall motion in BaTiO3 during ferroelectric switching

B Casals, GF Nataf, D Pesquera, EKH Salje - APL Materials, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We report two methods for direct observations of avalanches in ferroelectric materials during
the motion of domain walls. In the first method, we use optical imaging techniques to derive …

Mobile intrinsic point defects for conductive neutral domain walls in LiNbO 3

K Eggestad, BAD Williamson, D Meier… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Conductive ferroelectric domain walls (DWs) hold great promise for neuromorphic
nanoelectronics as they can contribute to realize multi-level diodes and nanoscale …

Direct observation of polar tweed in LaAlO3

EKH Salje, M Alexe, S Kustov, MC Weber… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Polar tweed was discovered in mechanically stressed LaAlO3. Local patches of strained
material (diameter ca. 5 μm) form interwoven patterns seen in birefringence images, Piezo …

[HTML][HTML] High-speed hyperspectral imaging of ferroelectric domain walls using broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

S Reitzig, F Hempel, J Ratzenberger… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Spontaneous Raman spectroscopy (SR) is a versatile method for analysis and visualization
of ferroelectric crystal structures, including domain walls. Nevertheless, the necessary …

Optical studies of ferroelectric and ferroelastic domain walls

GF Nataf, M Guennou - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent studies carried out with atomic force microscopy or high-resolution transmission
electron microscopy reveal that ferroic domain walls can exhibit different physical properties …

Imaging of ferroelectric domain walls in uniaxial ferroelectrics by confocal Raman spectroscopy: Unraveling the contrast mechanism

M Rüsing, S Neufeld, J Brockmeier, C Eigner… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
In recent years, Raman spectroscopy has been used to visualize and analyze ferroelectric
domain structures. The technique makes use of the fact that the intensity or frequency of …