This article briefly reviews recent applications of phase‐field method to ferroelectric phase
transitions and domain structures in thin films. It starts with a brief introduction to the …

Nonlinear optics is an essential component of modern laser systems and optoelectronic
devices. It has also emerged as an important tool in probing the electronic, vibrational …

Advances in complex oxide heteroepitaxy have highlighted the enormous potential of
utilizing strain engineering via lattice mismatch to control ferroelectricity in thin-film …

Using epitaxy and the misfit strain imposed by an underlying substrate, it is possible to
elastically strain oxide thin films to percent levels—far beyond where they would crack in …

Ferroelectric thin films and superlattices are currently the subject of intensive research,
because of the interest they raise for technological applications and also because their …

The broad spectrum of electronic and optical properties exhibited by oxides offers
tremendous opportunities for microelectronic devices, especially when a combination of …

Biaxial strain is known to induce ferroelectricity in thin films of nominally nonferroelectric
materials such as SrTiO 3. By a direct comparison of the strained and strain-free SrTiO 3 …

Ferroelectric 180° domain walls are well-known to be predominantly Ising-like. Using
density functional theory, and molecular dynamics simulations, the 180° domain walls in …

One emergent property of ferroelectric nanoparticles is the sized-induced structural
distortion to a high-symmetry paraelectric phase at small particle sizes. Finite length scale …

Rare-earth (RE) scandate single crystals ranging from NdScO3 to DyScO3 were grown by
the conventional Czochralski technique. The crystals were found to have a non …