Domain wall nanoelectronics

G Catalan, J Seidel, R Ramesh, JF Scott - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2012 - APS
Domains in ferroelectrics were considered to be well understood by the middle of the last
century: They were generally rectilinear, and their walls were Ising-like. Their simplicity …

Prominent size effects without a depolarization field observed in ultrathin ferroelectric oxide membranes

H Sun, J Gu, Y Li, TR Paudel, D Liu, J Wang, Y Zang… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The increasing miniaturization of electronics requires a better understanding of material
properties at the nanoscale. Many studies have shown that there is a ferroelectric size limit …

Electrostatic coupling and local structural distortions at interfaces in ferroelectric/paraelectric superlattices

P Zubko, N Jecklin, A Torres-Pardo… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The performance of ferroelectric devices is intimately entwined with the structure and
dynamics of ferroelectric domains. In ultrathin ferroelectrics, ordered nanodomains arise …

X-Ray Diffraction Studies of 180° Ferroelectric Domains in Superlattices <?format ?>under an Applied Electric Field

P Zubko, N Stucki, C Lichtensteiger, JM Triscone - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
The dielectric response of PbTiO 3/SrTiO 3 superlattices is studied using electrical and
structural measurements. While the dielectric response of paraelectric superlattices is well …

Absence of critical thickness for polar skyrmions with breaking the Kittel's law

FH Gong, YL Tang, YJ Wang, YT Chen, B Wu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The period of polar domain (d) in ferroics was commonly believed to scale with
corresponding film thicknesses (h), following the classical Kittel's law of d∝ h. Here, we …

180° Ferroelectric Stripe Nanodomains in BiFeO3 Thin Films

Z Chen, J Liu, Y Qi, D Chen, SL Hsu… - Nano …, 2015 - ACS Publications
There is growing evidence that domain walls in ferroics can possess emergent properties
that are absent in the bulk. For example, 180° ferroelectric domain walls in the ferroelectric …

Electronic structure characteristics of two-dimensional ferroelectric heterostructures α-In2Se3/ZnSe

Y ZhuoLiang, J Tao, L Lin, S **aoxiang… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
At present, chips urgently need breakthrough development in the power consumption and
integration. The chip integrates billions or even tens of billions of electronic components …

Imaging Local Polarization in Ferroelectric Thin Films by Coherent X-Ray Bragg<? format?> Projection Ptychography

SO Hruszkewycz, MJ Highland, MV Holt, D Kim… - Physical Review Letters, 2013 - APS
We used x-ray Bragg projection ptychography (BPP) to map spatial variations of ferroelectric
polarization in thin film PbTiO 3, which exhibited a striped nanoscale domain pattern on a …

Ferroelectricity in Ultrathin Halide Perovskites

R Kashikar, A Valdespino, C Ogg, E Uppgard… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ferroelectricity has recently been demonstrated in germanium-based halide perovskites. We
use first-principles-based simulations to study 4–18 nm CsGeBr3 films and develop a theory …

Mechanical Writing of Polar Skyrmionic Topological States via Extrinsic Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya-like Flexoelectricity in Ferroelectric Thin Films

K Kasai, T Nojima, Y Wang, T Xu, H Hirakata… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Exploring complex topological structures in condensed matter has shown promising
applications in nanotechnology. Although polar topologies such as chiral vortices and …