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HfO2-based ferroelectric films have attracted considerable attention as their nanoscale ferroelectricity and compatibility with cmos technology, fulfilling demands of emerging memory technologies. However, as films scale down,…

In this work, we propose a class of ferroelectrics (which we denote "double-path" ferroelectrics), characterized by two competing polarization switching paths for which the change in polarization is different and in fact of opposite sign.…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-15 Yubo Qi , Sebastian E. Reyes-Lillo , Karin M. Rabe

Antiferroelectricity is a material property characterized by alternating electric dipoles spontaneously ordered in antiparallel directions. Antiferroelectrics are promising for energy storage, solid-state cooling, and memory technologies;…

Antiferroelectric (AFE) materials have received tremendous attention owing to their high energy conversion efficiency and good tunability. Recently, an exotic two-dimensional (2D) AFE material, $\beta'-\mathrm{In}_{2}\mathrm{Se}_{3}$…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-18 Zihang Wu , Kun Liu , Yan Sun , Jian Zhou

The electronic structural properties in the presence of constrained magnetization and a charged background are studied for a monolayer of FeSe in non-magnetic, checkerboard-, and striped-antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin configurations. First…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-12 Timur Bazhirov , Marvin L. Cohen

We consider theoretically the influence of the flexoelectric coupling on the spatial distribution and temperature behavior of spontaneous polarization for several types of stable domain structure in thin ferroelectric films, such as stripe…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-25 Anna N. Morozovska , Eugene A. Eliseev , Sergei V. Kalinin , Riccardo Hertel

We have revisited the Kittel model that describes antiferroelectricity (AFE) in terms of two sublattices of spontaneous polarization with antiparallel couplings. By constructing the comprehensive phase diagram including the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-28 Amit Kumar Shah , Xin Li , Guodong Ren , Yu Yun , Rohan Mishra , Xiaoshan Xu

The combination of large spontaneous polarization and fluidity makes the newly discovered ferroelectric nematic liquid crystalline phase (NF) responsive to electric fields in ways that have no counterpart in other materials. We probe this…

Electric control of magnetic properties is an important challenge for modern magnetism and spintronic development. In particular, an ability to write magnetic state electrically would be highly beneficial. Among other methods, the use of…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-25 V. Iurchuk , B. Doudin , J. Bran , B. Kundys

Compensated ferrimagnets are promising materials for fast spintronic applications based on domain wall motion as they combine the favourable properties of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. They inherit from antiferromagnets immunity to…

Antiferroelectrics generate significant interest since their polarization versus electric field (PE) curves show typical double-hysteresis loops appealing for various applications. Unfortunately, antiferroelectrics are rare. In magnetic…

A possibility of use of the controlled decomposition of solid solutions of oxides with perovskite structure in the state of coexisting domains of the antiferroelectric (AFE) and ferroelectric (FE) phases for manufacturing of materials with…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-09 V. M. Ishchuk , V. L. Sobolev

In this study, we propose a measurement technique for evaluating ferroelectric polarization characteristics in ferroelectric field-effect transistors (FeFETs). Different from standard metal/ferroelectric/metal capacitors, the depletion and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Kasidit Toprasertpong , Kento Tahara , Mitsuru Takenaka , Shinichi Takagi

Solid-state cooling and energy harvesting via pyroelectric effect (PEE) and electrocaloric effect (ECE) in ferroelectric thin films could be enhanced beyond their intrinsic ferroelectric response by exploiting the recently observed…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-10 Jun Usami , Yuki Okamoto , Hisashi Inoue , Takeshi Kobayashi , Hiroyuki Yamada

Interest in planar Hall effect (PHE) sensors has re-emerged in recent years due to their promising potential for a wide range of applications, particularly in biotechnology. Sensor sensitivity can be enhanced by lowering the effective…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-02 Agostina Lo Giudice , Augusto Román , Laura Beatriz Steren

Wake word (WW) spotting is challenging in far-field due to the complexities and variations in acoustic conditions and the environmental interference in signal transmission. A suite of carefully designed and optimized audio front-end (AFE)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Yixin Gao , Noah D. Stein , Chieh-Chi Kao , Yunliang Cai , Ming Sun , Tao Zhang , Shiv Vitaladevuni

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

Based on a modified Ising model in a transverse field we demonstrate that defect layers in ferroelectric thin films, such as layers with impurities, vacancies or dislocations, are able to induce a strong increase or decrease of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 J. M. Wesselinowa , S. Trimper , K. Zabrocki

The authors have shown in previous contributions that reduced order modeling with optimal cubature applied to finite element square (FE2) techniques results in a reliable and affordable multiscale approach, the HPR-FE2 technique. Such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Marcelo Raschi , Oriol Lloberas-Valls , Alfredo Huespe , Javier Oliver

We have developed an operando laser-based photoemission electron microscope (laser-PEEM) with a ferroelectric characterization system. A Sawyer-Tower circuit was implemented to measure the polarization-voltage ($P-V$) characteristics of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-12 Hirokazu Fujiwara , Yuki Itoya , Masaharu Kobayashi , Cédric Bareille , Toshiyuki Taniuchi