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Electronic structure and dielectric property in an electronic ferroelectricty, where electric polarization is driven by an electronic charge order without inversion symmetry, are studied. Motivated from layered iron oxides, roles of quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 Tsutomu Watanabe , Sumio Ishihara

In a ferroelectric field effect transistor (FeFET), it is generally assumed that the ferroelectric gate plays a purely electrostatic role. Recently it has been shown that in some cases, which could be called 'active FeFETs', electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-28 Xiaohui Liu , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal , Karin M. Rabe

The ferroelectric polarization of perovskite oxides is much larger than implied by displacement of static ionic charges. We use an explicitly correlated scheme to investigate the phenomenon; charge transport is evaluated as a geometric…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-07 R. Resta , S. Sorella

We develop a series of approximations to calculate free energy of a polar liquid. We show that long range nature of dipole interactions between the molecules leads to para-electric state instability at low temperatures and to a second-order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-01 P. O. Fedichev , L. I. Menshikov

We consider ferroelectric phase transitions in both short-circuited and biased ferroelectric-semiconductor films with a space (depletion) charge which leads to some unusual behavior. It is shown that in the presence of the charge the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. M. Bratkovsky , A. P. Levanyuk

Iron is one of the archetypical ferromagnets to study the critical fluctuations at a continuous phase transition thus serving as a model system for the application of scaling theory. We report a comprehensive study of the critical dynamics…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-01 Jonas Kindervater , Steffen Säubert , Peter Böni

Ferroelectrics with spontaneous electric polarization play an essential role in today's device engineering, such as capacitors and memories. Their physical properties are further enriched by suppressing the long-range polar order, as is…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-14 H. Sakai , K. Ikeura , M. S. Bahramy , N. Ogawa , D. Hashizume , J. Fujioka , Y. Tokura , S. Ishiwata

Ferroelectric field-effect transistors employ a ferroelectric material as a gate insulator, the polarization state of which can be detected using the channel conductance of the device. As a result, the devices are of potential to use in…

A ferroelectric is a material with a polar structure whose polarity can be reversed by applying an electric field. In metals, the itinerant electrons tend to screen electrostatic forces between ions, helping to explain why polar metals are…

Electrical measurements of ferroelectric switching kinetics are widely used to probe the dynamics of polarization reversal, yet the influence of the measurement circuit is often underappreciated. In this paper, we show that the interplay…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-08 Yi Liang , Pat Kezer , John T. Heron

Pressure-induced polarization switching in ferroelectric thin films has emerged as a powerful method for domain patterning, allowing to create predefined domain patterns on free surfaces and under thin conductive top electrodes. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-06 Ye Cao , Anna Morozovska , Sergei V. Kalinin

The effect of polarization rotation on the performance of metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors was investigated with a Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire theory based model. In this analytical model, depolarization field, polarization…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-06 Yubo Qi , Andrew M. Rappe

Ferroelectric materials are characterized by a spontaneous polar distortion. The behavior of such distortions in the presence of free charge is the key to the physics of metallized ferroelectrics in particular, and of structurally-polar…

Ferroelectrics are essential in low-dimensional memory devices for multi-bit storage and high-density integration. A polar structure is a necessary premise for ferroelectricity, mainly existing in compounds. However, it is usually rare in…

Spin-polarized field-effect transistor (spin-FET), where a dielectric layer is generally employed for the electrical gating as the traditional FET, stands out as a seminal spintronic device under the miniaturization trend of electronics. It…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-07 Fan Li , Cheng Song , Bin Cui , Jingjing Peng , Youdi Gu , Guangyue Wang , Feng Pan

We formulate a scattering theory of polarization and heat transport through a ballistic ferroelectric point contact. We predict a polarization current under either an electric field or a temperature difference that depends strongly on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Ping Tang , Ryo Iguchi , Ken-ichi Uchida , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We examine theoretically a possibility of ferroelectricity caused by electronic charge order without inversion symmetry, motivated by layered iron oxides. Quantum electronic models in a paired-triangular lattice are analyzed by utilizing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Tsutomu Watanabe , Sumio Ishihara

Using Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire approach we calculated the equilibrium distributions of electric field, polarization and space charge in the ferroelectric-semiconductor heterostructures containing proper or incipient ferroelectric thin…

We study conductance of a single electron transistor (SET) with a ferroelectric (or dielectric) layer placed in the gate capacitor. We assume that ferroelectric (FE) has a retarded response with arbitrary relaxation time. We show that in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 O. G. Udalov , N. M. Chtchelkatchev , S. A. Fedorov , I. S. Beloborodov

In this letter we analyze the effects of an externally applied electric field on thermal fluctuations for a fluid containing charged species. We show in particular that the fluctuating Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations for charged…