Topological phases in polar oxide nanostructures

J Junquera, Y Nahas, S Prokhorenko, L Bellaiche… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The past decade has witnessed dramatic progress related to various aspects of emergent
topological polar textures in oxide nanostructures displaying vortices, skyrmions, merons …

From classical thermodynamics to phase-field method

LQ Chen, Y Zhao - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Phase-field method is a density-based computational method at the mesoscale for modeling
and predicting the temporal microstructure and property evolution during materials …

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 …

Recent advances in multilayer‐structure dielectrics for energy storage application

M Feng, Y Feng, T Zhang, J Li, Q Chen… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
An electrostatic capacitor has been widely used in many fields (such as high pulsed power
technology, new energy vehicles, etc.) due to its ultrahigh discharge power density …

Spatially resolved steady-state negative capacitance

AK Yadav, KX Nguyen, Z Hong, P García-Fernández… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Negative capacitance is a newly discovered state of ferroelectric materials that holds
promise for electronics applications by exploiting a region of thermodynamic space that is …

Thin‐film ferroelectrics

A Fernandez, M Acharya, HG Lee, J Schimpf… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last 30 years, the study of ferroelectric oxides has been revolutionized by the
implementation of epitaxial‐thin‐film‐based studies, which have driven many advances in …

A highly polarizable concentrated dipole glass for ultrahigh energy storage

J Fu, A **e, R Zuo, Y Liu, H Qi, Z Wang, Q Feng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Relaxor ferroelectrics are highly desired for pulse-power dielectric capacitors, however it
has become a bottleneck that substantial enhancements of energy density generally …

Creating emergent phenomena in oxide superlattices

R Ramesh, DG Schlom - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Complex oxides are record holder materials for many phenomena, including ferroelectricity,
piezoelectricity, superconductivity and multiferroicity. Complex oxides often have competing …

Observation of room-temperature polar skyrmions

S Das, YL Tang, Z Hong, MAP Gonçalves… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Complex topological configurations are fertile ground for exploring emergent phenomena
and exotic phases in condensed-matter physics. For example, the recent discovery of …

Giant electric field-induced second harmonic generation in polar skyrmions

S Wang, W Li, C Deng, Z Hong, HB Gao, X Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Electric field-induced second harmonic generation allows electrically controlling nonlinear
light-matter interactions crucial for emerging integrated photonics applications. Despite its …