Ferroelectrics have become indispensable components in various application fields,
including information processing, energy harvesting, and electromechanical conversion …

Ferroelectrics have a spontaneous electrical polarization that is arranged into domains and
can be reversed by an externally applied field. This high versatility makes them useful in …

Dielectric ceramic capacitors with ultrahigh power densities are fundamental to modern
electrical devices. Nonetheless, the poor energy density confined to the low breakdown …

The compromise of contradictive parameters, polarization, and breakdown strength, is
necessary to achieve a high energy storage performance. The two can be tuned, regardless …

The phase-field method has become an important and extremely versatile technique for
simulating microstructure evolution at the mesoscale. Thanks to the diffuse-interface …

The negative capacitance (NC) effect in ferroelectric thin films has attracted a great deal of
attention from the material and semiconductor device communities because it could be a …

This article briefly reviews recent applications of phase‐field method to ferroelectric phase
transitions and domain structures in thin films. It starts with a brief introduction to the …

Understanding mesoscale ferroelectric domain structures and their switching behavior
under external fields is critical to applications of ferroelectrics. The phase-field method has …

Phase transitions are a common phenomenon in condensed matter and act as a critical
degree of freedom that can be employed to tailor the mechanical or electronic properties of …

High-performance piezoelectrics are pivotal to various electronic applications including
multilayer actuators, sensors, and energy harvesters. Despite the presence of high Lotgering …