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Strain and domain engineering offer powerful routes to control phase and domain stability in ferroelectric thin films. While most studies have focused on (100)-oriented growth, the impact of lower-symmetry orientations remains…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-11 Lan-Tien Hsu , Takeshi Nishimatsu , Anna Grünebohm

It is well known that stacking domains form in moir\'e superlattices due to the competition between the interlayer van der Waals forces and intralayer elastic forces, which can be recognized as polar domains due to the local spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Daniel Bennett , Benjamin Remez

Comprehensive review of investigations of substances with a small difference in the energies of the ferroelectric and antiferroelectric types of dipole ordering is presented. Detailed analysis of the stability of homogeneous phases and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-11 V. M. Ishchuk , V. L. Sobolev

Macroscopic properties of ferroelectric samples, including those in form of thin films, are, to large extent, influenced by their domain structure. In this paper the free energy is calculated for a plate-like sample composed of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kopal , P. Mokry , J. Fousek , T. Bahnik

In this paper, we present the dynamics and modeling of multi-domains in the ferroelectric FET (FeFET). Due to the periodic texture of domains, the electrostatics of the FeFET exhibit an oscillatory conduction band profile. To capture such…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Nilesh Pandey , Yogesh Singh Chauhan

The structure of 180-degree uncharged rotational domain wall in a multiaxial ferroelectric film is studied within the framework of analytical Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire (LGD) approach. The Finite Element Modelling (FEM) is used to solve…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-18 Anna N. Morozovska , Eugene A. Eliseev , Yevhen M. Fomichov , Sergei V. Kalinin

This study investigates the nucleation, dynamics, and stationary configurations of Abrikosov vortices in hybrid superconductor-ferromagnetic nanostructures exposed to inhomogeneous magnetic fields generated by a ferromagnetic nanodot. Using…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-05 Sara Memarzadeh , Mateusz Gołębiewski , Maciej Krawczyk , Jarosław W. Kłos

Nanomagnetic materials, built from thin, patterned films of ferromagnetic materials, began as analogues to frustrated magnetism. Their low energy of operation and emergent properties make them strong candidates for physics based devices. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-19 Michael Saccone , Francesco Caravelli

Domain structures play a crucial role in the electric, mechanical and other properties of ferroelectric materials. In this study, we uncover the physical origins of the enigmatic zigzag domain structure in the prototypical multiferroic…

Engineering of ferroelectric domain structures enables direct control over the switching dynamics and is crucial for tuning the functional properties of ferroelectrics for various applications, ranging from capacitors to future…

Ultra-dense domain walls are increasingly important for many devices but their microscopic properties are so far not fully understood. Here we use molecular dynamic simulations to study the domain wall stability in the prototypical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-06 Arne J. Klomp , Ruben Khachaturyan , Theophilus Wallis , Anna Grünebohm , Karsten Albe

Ferroelectric nanoparticles of different shape and their nanocomposites are actively studied in modern physics. Because of their applications in many fields of nanotechnology, the size effects and the possible disappearance of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Anna N. Morozovska , Eugene A. Eliseev , Maya D. Glinchuk

Ferroics and multiferroics are unique objects for fundamental physical research of complex nonlinear processes and phenomena, which occur in them in micro and nanoscale. Due to the possibility of their physical properties control by size…

In binary alloys, domain walls play a central role not only on the phase transitions but also on their physical properties and were at the heart of the 70's metallurgy research. Whereas it can be predicted, with simple physics arguments,…

Domain boundaries in ferroelectric materials exhibit rich and diverse physical properties distinct from their parent materials and have been proposed for novel applications in nanoelectronics and quantum information technology. Due to their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Fan Zhang , Zhe Wang , Lixuan Liu , Anmin Nie , Yongji Gong , Wenguang Zhu , Chenggang Tao

We express dynamics of domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires in terms of collective coordinates generalizing Thiele's steady-state results. For weak external perturbations the dynamics is dominated by a few soft modes. The general…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-03-31 O. A. Tretiakov , D. Clarke , Gia-Wei Chern , Ya. B. Bazaliy , O. Tchernyshyov

We investigate the ferroelectric phase transition and domain formation in a periodic superlattice consisting of alternate ferroelectric (FE) and paraelectric (PE) layers of nanometric thickness. We find that the polarization domains formed…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Stephanovich , I. A. Luk'yanchuk , M. G. Karkut

We simulate from first-principles the energetic, structural, and electronic properties of ferroelectric domains in ultrathin capacitors made of a few unit cells of BaTiO$_3$ between two metallic SrRuO$_3$ electrodes in short circuit. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-10-09 Pablo Aguado-Puente , Javier Junquera

For forty years researchers on ferroelectric switching have used the Kay-Dunn theory to model the thickness-dependence of the coercive field; it works surprisingly well, despite the fact that it is based upon homogeneous nucleation and a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Chandra , M. Dawber , P. B. Littlewood , J. F. Scott

Interfaces at the two-dimensional limit in oxide materials exhibit a rich span of functionality that differs significantly from the bulk behavior. Among such interfaces, domain walls in ferroelectrics draw special attention because they can…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-19 Maya Barzilay , Yachin Ivry