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In this Article, we report on the observation of ferroelectric domain pattern in the whole volume of the ferroelectric barium titanate single crystal by means of the digital holographic microscopy (DHM). Our particular implementation of DHM…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-22 Pavel Mokry , Pavel Psota , Katerina Steiger , Jan Vaclavik , Roman Dolecek , David Vapenka , Vit Ledl

Recent advances in nanofabrication make it possible to produce multilayer nanostructures composed of ultrathin film materials with thickness down to a few monolayers of atoms and lateral extent of several tens of nanometers. At these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Cyrill B. Muratov , Valeriy V. Slastikov

We study the effect of the domain wall on electronic transport properties in wire of ferromagnetic 3$d$ transition metals based on the linear response theory. We considered the exchange interaction between the conduction electron and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gen Tatara

Among all-inorganic halide perovskites, the only known ferroelectrics are the family of CsGeX$_3$ (X = Cl, Br, I). Here, we study their ferroelectric domain walls (DWs) and common point defects by density functional theory (DFT)…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-11 Kristoffer Eggestad , Benjamin A. D. Williamson , Sverre M. Selbach

Ferroelectric $\mathrm{HfO}_2$ has attracted extensive research interest for its applications in AI era. The domain walls play a crucial role in phase structure stabilization and polarization switching of ferroelectric $\mathrm{HfO}_2$,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 Chenxi Yu , Jiajia Zhang , Xujin Song , Dijiang Sun , Shangze Li , Fei Liu , Xiaoyan Liu , Wei Xi , Jinfeng Kang

Currently, much interest is drawn to the analysis of optical and matter-wave modes supported by the fractional diffraction in nonlinear media. We predict a new type of such states, in the form of domain walls (DWs) in the two-component…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-23 Shatrughna Kumar , Pengfei Li , Boris A. Malomed

Sliding ferroelectrics constructed from stacked nonpolar monolayers enable out-of-plane polarization in two dimensions with exceptional properties, including ultrafast switching speeds and fatigue-free behavior. However, the widely accepted…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-04 Changming Ke , Fucai Liu , Shi Liu

Ferroelectric materials are spontaneous symmetry breaking systems characterized by ordered electric polarizations. Similar to its ferromagnetic counterpart, a ferroelectric domain wall can be regarded as a soft interface separating two…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-06 Gongzheng Chen , Jin Lan , Tai Min , Jiang Xiao

We present in-situ transmission electron microscopy observations of domain wall motion in thin freestanding potassium niobate single-crystals. We observe that not all domains of a given polarization orientation are equally switchable in…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Krishnan , M. M. J. Treacy , M. E. Bisher , P. Chandra , P. B. Littlewood

A new mechanism leading to a switchable polarization in a ferroelectric domain wall (DW) is proposed. A biquadratic coupling of the primary order parameter and its gradient triggers the phase transition in the DW with softening of the local…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-04 I. Rychetsky , W. Schranz , A. Tröster

We investigate 1D and 2D radial domain-wall (DW) states in the system of two nonlinear-Schr\"{o}dinger/Gross-Pitaevskii equations, which are coupled by the linear mixing and by the nonlinear XPM (cross-phase-modulation). The system has…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-30 Nir Dror , Boris A. Malomed , Jianhua Zeng

The nonlinear dynamics of a transverse domain wall (TDW) in Permalloy and Nickel nanostrips with two artificially patterned pinning centers is studied numerically up to rf frequencies. The phase diagram frequency - driving amplitude shows a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-18 A. Pivano , V. O. Dolocan

We introduce domain-wall (DW) states in the bimodal discrete nonlinear Schr{\"{o}}dinger equation, in which the modes are coupled by cross phase modulation (XPM). By means of continuation from various initial patterns taken in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Kevrekidis , Boris A. Malomed , D. J. Frantzeskakis , A. R. Bishop

Domain walls are the topological defects that mediate polarization reversal in ferroelectrics, and they may exhibit quite different geometric and electronic structures compared to the bulk. Therefore, a detailed atomic-scale understanding…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-12 Meng Ye , David Vanderbilt

Domain-wall dynamics in ferroelectric materials are strongly position-dependent since each polar interface is locked into a unique local microstructure. This necessitates spatially resolved studies of the wall-pinning using scanning-probe…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-02 Kamyar Barakati , Yu Liu , Hiroshi Funakubo , Sergei V. Kalinin

Spontaneous electric polarization of solid ferroelectrics follows aligning directions of crystallographic axes. Domains of differently oriented polarization are separated by domain walls (DWs), which are predominantly flat and run along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-01 Priyanka Kumari , Bijaya Basnet , Hao Wang , Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Ferroelectric domain wall motion is fundamental to the switching properties of ferroelectric devices and is influenced by a wide range of factors including spatial disorder within the material and thermal noise. We build a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-08 Nora Bauer , Sabine M. Neumayer , Petro Maksymovych , Maxim O. Lavrentovich

Domain walls in antiferromagnets under a spin-polarized current present dynamical behavior that is not observed in ferromagnets, and it is tunable by the current polarization. Precessional dynamics is obtained for perpendicular spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-02 George Theodorou , Stavros Komineas

Conductive domain walls (CDWs) in the uniaxial ferroelectric lithium niobate (LiNbO$_3$, LN) have attracted a lot of interest as potential elements in 2D nanoelectronics, due to their orders-of-magnitude larger electronic AC and DC…

Ferroelectric domain walls are boundaries between regions with different polarization orientations in a ferroelectric material. Using first principles calculations, we characterize all different types of domain walls forming on…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-16 Đorđe Dangić , Éamonn D. Murray , Stephen Fahy , Ivana Savić