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 …

[HTML][HTML] Ferroelectric or non-ferroelectric: Why so many materials exhibit “ferroelectricity” on the nanoscale

RK Vasudevan, N Balke, P Maksymovych… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Ferroelectric materials have remained one of the major focal points of condensed matter
physics and materials science for over 50 years. In the last 20 years, the development of …

Roadmap for ferroelectric domain wall nanoelectronics

P Sharma, TS Moise, L Colombo… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ferroelectric domain walls naturally form at nanoscale interfaces of polar order leading to
electronic properties distinct from the bulk that can also be electrically programmed. These …

Materials informatics: From the atomic-level to the continuum

JM Rickman, T Lookman, SV Kalinin - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent years materials informatics, which is the application of data science to problems in
materials science and engineering, has emerged as a powerful tool for materials discovery …

Functional ion defects in transition metal oxides

SV Kalinin, NA Spaldin - Science, 2013 - science.org
Transition metal oxides exhibit an astonishing array of functionalities that result from a
combination of the strongly polarizable metal-oxygen bond and the so-called strong …

Surface-screening mechanisms in ferroelectric thin films and their effect on polarization dynamics and domain structures

SV Kalinin, Y Kim, DD Fong… - Reports on Progress in …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
For over 70 years, ferroelectric materials have been one of the central research topics for
condensed matter physics and material science, an interest driven both by fundamental …

Non-Ising and chiral ferroelectric domain walls revealed by nonlinear optical microscopy

S Cherifi-Hertel, H Bulou, R Hertel, G Taupier… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The properties of ferroelectric domain walls can significantly differ from those of their parent
material. Elucidating their internal structure is essential for the design of advanced devices …

Flexoelectric Catalysts Based on Hierarchical Wrinkling Surface of Centrosymmetric High-Entropy Oxide

PY Wu, KT Le, HY Lin, YC Chen, PH Wu, JM Wu - Acs Nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
A high-entropy oxide nanocomposite with Ag (CuZn)(AlCr) 2O4 and CuO phases is
fabricated to form an abundantly hierarchical wrinkled surface. Application of a mechanical …

Mixed electrochemical–ferroelectric states in nanoscale ferroelectrics

SM Yang, AN Morozovska, R Kumar, EA Eliseev… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Ferroelectricity on the nanoscale has been the subject of much fascination in condensed-
matter physics for over half a century. In recent years, multiple reports claiming …