The aim of this Chapter is to provide an account of recent advances in the first-principles modeling of ferroelectric oxide nanostructures. Starting from a microscopic description of ferroelectricity in bulk materials and considering then, successively, different kinds of nanostructures (films, multilayers, wires, and particles), we try to identify the main trends and to provide a coherent picture of the role of finite size effects in ferroelectric oxides.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0605299,
title = {First-Principles Modeling of Ferroelectric Oxide Nanostructures},
author = {Philippe Ghosez and Javier Junquera},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0605299},
year = {2007}
}