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Hafnia-based ferroelectrics hold promise for nonvolatile ferroelectric memory devices. However, the high coercive field required for polarization switching remains a prime obstacle to their practical applications. A notable reduction in…
The recent observation of ferroelectricity in the metastable phases of binary metal oxides, such as HfO2, ZrO2, Hf0.5Zr0.5O2, and Ga2O3, has garnered a lot of attention. These metastable ferroelectric phases are typically stabilized through…
In the realm of ferroelectric memories, HfO2-based ferroelectrics stand out because of their exceptional CMOS compatibility and scalability. Nevertheless, their switchable polarization and switching speed are not on par with those of…
Although dopants have been extensively employed to promote ferroelectricity in hafnia films, their role in stabilizing the responsible ferroelectric non-equilibrium Pca21 phase is not well understood. In this work, using first principles…
Magnetic interfaces and the phenomena arising from them drive both the design of modern spintronics and fundamental research. Recently, it was revealed that through designing magnetic frustration in configurationally complex entropy…
Films of all-important compound hafnia (HfO2) can be prepared in an orthorhombic ferroelectric (FE) state that is ideal for applications, e.g. in memories or negative-capacitance field-effect transistors. The origin of this FE state remains…
Ferroelectric HfO2 is a promising candidate for next-generation memory devices due to its CMOS compatibility and ability to retain polarization at nanometer scales. However, the polar orthorhombic phase (Pca2_1) responsible for…
The ferroelectric properties of nanoscale silicon doped HfO$_2$ promise a multitude of applications ranging from ferroelectric memory to energy-related applications. The reason for the unexpected behavior has not been clearly proven and…
Ferroelectric field-effect doping has emerged as a powerful approach to manipulate the ground state of correlated oxides, opening the door to a new class of field-effect devices. However, this potential is not fully exploited so far, since…
Doping of strongly layered ionic oxides is an established paradigm for creating novel electronic behavior. This is nowhere more apparent than in superconductivity, where doping gives rise to high temperature superconductivity in cuprates…
Two-dimensional (2D) multiferroics attract intensive investigations because of underlying science and their potential applications. Although many 2D systems have been observed/predicted to be ferroelectric or ferromagnetic, 2D materials…
The results of a previous work, where it was considered the effect of hole doping on a simple model of the CuO2 planes in La2CuO4, are extended. The parameters are adjusted with the objective to fix the known values of the gap of 2 eV for…
We have systematically grown large single crystals of layered compound beta-PdBi2, both the hole-doped PdBi2-xPbx and the electron-doped NaxPdBi2, and studied their magnetic and transport properties. Hall-effect measurement on PdBi2,…
We address the problem of the percolative phase separation in polycrystalline samples of Pr$_{0.5-\delta}$Ca$_{0.2+\delta}$Sr$_{0.3}$MnO$_3$ for $-0.04\leq \delta \leq 0.04$ (hole doping $n$ between 0.46 and 0.54). We perform measurements…
Phase stabilization continues to be a critical issue in hafnium oxide (HfO$_2$) due to the interdependence of various contributing factors. Using first-principles calculations, we analyze the effects of strain and doping on stabilizing the…
We performed density functional theory (DFT) calculations on epitaxially strained hafnia. We demonstrate the stabilization of the ferroelectric ($Pca2_{1}$) phase from the antiferroelectric ($Pbcn$) in bulk hafnia in the presence of…
Measurements of the low-frequency (f<= 100 kHz) permittivity at T<= 160 K and dc resistivity (T<= 430 K) are reported for La(1-x)Ca(x)MnO(3) (0<= x<= 0.15). Static dielectric constants are determined from the low-T limiting behavior of the…
Electron- and hole-doped La$_2$CoMnO$_6$(LCMO) are investigated using first principles DFT calculations. Hole and electron doping are achieved respectively by introducing Sr$^{2+}$ at La$^{3+}$ sites and by inducing O-site vacancies in…
As a typical hole-doped cuprate superconductor, Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+{\delta} (Bi2212) carrier doping is mostly determined by its oxygen content. Traditional doping methods can regulate its doping level within the range of hole doping. Here…
The experimental realization of high-temperature superconductivity in compressed hydrides H$_3$S and LaH$_{10}$ at high pressures over 150 GPa has aroused great interest in reducing the stabilization pressure of superconducting hydrides.…