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The coupling between antiferrodistortion (AFD) and ferroelectric (FE) polarization, universal for all tilted perovskite multiferroics, is known to strongly correlate with domain wall functionalities in the materials. The intrinsic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 M. J. Han , E. A. Eliseev , A. N. Morozovska , Y. L. Zhu , Y. L. Tang , Y. J. Wang , X. W. Guo , X. L. Ma

Ferroelectric domains in PbTiO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ superlattices were studied using synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Macroscopic measurements revealed a change in the domain wall orientation from $\left\lbrace 100 \right\rbrace $ to $\left\lbrace…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Marios Hadjimichael , Edoardo Zatterin , Stéphanie Fernandez-Peña , Steven J. Leake , Pavlo Zubko

Antiferromagnets offer remarkable promise for future spintronics devices, where antiferromagnetic order is exploited to encode information. The control and understanding of antiferromagnetic domain walls (DWs) - the interfaces between…

Surface magnetic domains of a UCoGa single crystal during magnetization/demagnetization processes in increasing/decreasing magnetic fields were investigated by means of magnetic-force-microscopy (MFM) images at low temperatures. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-27 Petr Opletal , Klára Uhlířová , Ivo Kalabis , Vladimír Sechovský , Jan Prokleška

Antiferromagnetic (AF) domain walls have recently attracted revived attention, not only in the emerging field of AF spintronics, but also more specifically for offering fast domain wall velocities and dynamic excitations up to the terahertz…

Domain walls (DWs) in ferroic materials, across which the order parameter abruptly changes its orientation, can host emergent properties that are absent in the bulk domains. Using a broadband ($10^6-10^{10}$ Hz) scanning impedance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-30 Xiaoyu Wu , Urko Petralanda , Lu Zheng , Yuan Ren , Rongwei Hu , Sang-Wook Cheong , Sergey Artyukhin , Keji Lai

Control of magnetic domain wall motion by electric fields has recently attracted scientific attention because of its potential for magnetic logic and memory devices. Here, we report on a new driving mechanism that allows for magnetic domain…

Motivated by the recent theoretical and experimental progress in the heavy fermion system UCoGe, we study ferromagnetic chiral superconductors in the presence of magnetic domains. Within mean field approximations, it is shown that chiral…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-05 Yasuhiro Tada

Ferroelectric domain walls exhibit a range of interesting electrical properties and are now widely recognized as functional two-dimensional systems for the development of next-generation nanoelectronics. A major achievement in the field was…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-17 Jan Schultheiß , Tadej Rojac , Dennis Meier

Domain switching pathways in ferroelectric materials visualized by dynamic Piezoresponse Force Microscopy (PFM) are explored via variational autoencoder (VAE), which simplifies the elements of the observed domain structure, crucially…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-14 Sergei V. Kalinin , James J. Steffes , Yongtao Liu , Bryan D. Huey , Maxim Ziatdinov

Ferroelectric domain walls are quasi-2D systems that show great promise for the development of non-volatile memory, memristor technology and electronic components with ultra-small feature size. Electric fields, for example, can change the…

Ferroic materials (ferromagnetic, ferroelectric, ferroelastic) usually divide into domains with different orientations of their order parameter. Coupling different ferroic systems creates new functionalities, for instance the electrical…

Domain walls are the transition regions between two magnetic domains. These objects have been very relevant during the last decade, not only due to their intrinsic interest in the development of novel spintronics devices but also because of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Oscar Alejos , Víctor Raposo , Eduardo Martínez

Domain walls (DWs), the two-dimensional boundaries between symmetry equivalent ferroic domains, are actively investigated due to their promise for novel logic and memory devices. Moreover, they can be easily created, erased and reshaped at…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-12 Peng Chen , Sergey Artyukhin

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

Hafnium dioxide (HfO2) is a promising ferroelectric (FE) material for achieving high-density nonvolatile memory and neuromorphic computing, due to its compatibility with the mainstream integrated circuit technology and the surprisingly…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-16 Guo-Dong Zhao , Xingen Liu , Wei Ren , Xiaona Zhu , Shaofeng Yu

We use shear-mode Raman imaging to track ferroelectric switching in multilayer 3$R$-MoS$_2$. Within a single flake, mechanically segmented regions respond independently and follow distinct pathways. Partially polarized end states indicate…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Yulu Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xiaoxiang Xi

We show the ferro-rotational nature of the commensurate charge density wave (CCDW) in $1T$-$\mathrm{TaS}_2$ and track its dynamic modulations by temperature-dependent and time-resolved electric quadrupole rotation anisotropy-second harmonic…

Since the discovery of polar topological textures, achieving efficient control and manipulation of them has emerged as a significant challenge for their integration into nanoelectronic devices. In this study, we use second principles…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-01 Fernando Gómez-Ortiz , Louis Bastogne , He Xu , Philippe Ghosez

As the emerging ferroelectric (FE) materials, the ultrathin two-dimensional (2D) sliding ferroelectrics without phase-matching bottleneck, usually exhibit the pronounced second harmonic generation (SHG) responses. Despite the structural…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-02 Fengfeng Ye , Qiankun Li , Zhuocheng Lu , Xinfeng Chen , Yang Li , Hua Wang , Lu You , Gaoyang Gou