Antiferroelectric oxide thin-films: Fundamentals, properties, and applications

Y Si, T Zhang, C Liu, S Das, B Xu, RG Burkovsky… - Progress in Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Antiferroelectrics have received blooming interests because of a wide range of potential
applications in energy storage, solid-state cooling, thermal switch, transducer, actuation, and …

PbZrO3‐Based Anti‐Ferroelectric Thin Films for High‐Performance Energy Storage: A Review

X Wang, F Yang, K Yu, B Zhang, J Chen… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Energy storage capacitors occupy a large proportion in the pulse power equipment, and
they play an important role nowadays. In recent years, anti‐ferroelectric materials have …

Atomic insight into the successive antiferroelectric–ferroelectric phase transition in antiferroelectric oxides

RJ Jiang, Y Cao, WR Geng, MX Zhu, YL Tang… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Antiferroelectrics characterized by voltage-driven reversible transitions between antiparallel
and parallel polarity are promising for cutting-edge electronic and electrical power …

Freestanding complex-oxide membranes

D Pesquera, A Fernández, E Khestanova… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Complex oxides show a vast range of functional responses, unparalleled within the
inorganic solids realm, making them promising materials for applications as varied as next …

Ferroelectric phase transitions in epitaxial antiferroelectric PbZrO3 thin films

P Dufour, T Maroutian, M Vallet, K Patel… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The archetypical antiferroelectric, PbZrO 3, is currently attracting a lot of interest, but no
consensus can be clearly established on the nature of its ground state as well as on the …

Antiferroelectricity in oxides: A reexamination

KM Rabe - Functional metal oxides: new science and novel …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The fundamental physics of antiferroelectric oxides and their properties are reviewed. First,
the difficulties in formulating a precise definition of antiferroelectricity are discussed, drawing …

A Roadmap for Ferroelectric–Antiferroelectric Phase Transition

RJ Jiang, YL Tang, SZ Liu, MX Zhu, C Li, YP Feng… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Antiferroelectric materials have shown great potential in electronic devices benefiting from
the reversible phase transition between ferroelectric and antiferroelectric phases …

Epitaxial strain stabilization of a ferroelectric phase in PbZrO thin films

A Roy Chaudhuri, M Arredondo, A Hähnel… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
PbZrO 3/SrRuO 3/SrTiO 3 (100) epitaxial heterostructures with different thickness of the
PbZrO 3 (PZO) layer (d PZO∼ 5–160 nm) were fabricated by pulsed laser deposition. The …

Functional perovskites–from epitaxial films to nanostructured arrays

I Vrejoiu, M Alexe, D Hesse… - Advanced Functional …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Functional perovskite materials gain increasing significance due to their wide spectrum of
attractive properties, including ferroelectric, ferromagnetic, conducting and multiferroic …

Order-disorder transition in the prototypical antiferroelectric

B Xu, O Hellman, L Bellaiche - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
The prototypical antiferroelectric PbZrO 3 has several unsettled questions, such as the
nature of the antiferroelectric transition, a possible intermediate phase, and the microscopic …