Domain-wall engineering and topological defects in ferroelectric and ferroelastic materials

GF Nataf, M Guennou, JM Gregg, D Meier… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Ferroelectric and ferroelastic domain walls are 2D topological defects with thicknesses
approaching the unit cell level. When this spatial confinement is combined with observations …

Physics and applications of charged domain walls

PS Bednyakov, BI Sturman, T Sluka… - npj Computational …, 2018 - nature.com
The charged domain wall is an ultrathin (typically nanosized) interface between two
domains; it carries bound charge owing to a change of normal component of spontaneous …

Temporary formation of highly conducting domain walls for non-destructive read-out of ferroelectric domain-wall resistance switching memories

J Jiang, ZL Bai, ZH Chen, L He, DW Zhang… - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Erasable conductive domain walls in insulating ferroelectric thin films can be used for non-
destructive electrical read-out of the polarization states in ferroelectric memories. Still, the …

Piezoelectric effect enhanced photocatalysis in environmental remediation: State-of-the-art techniques and future scenarios

Z Jiang, X Tan, Y Huang - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Photocatalysis has been widely used as an advanced oxidation process to control pollutants
effectively. However, environmental photocatalysis' decontamination efficiency is restricted …

Nonvolatile ferroelectric field-effect transistors

X Chai, J Jiang, Q Zhang, X Hou, F Meng… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Future data-intensive applications will have integrated circuit architectures combining
energy-efficient transistors, high-density data storage and electro-optic sensing arrays in a …

Ferroelectric domain wall memory with embedded selector realized in LiNbO3 single crystals integrated on Si wafers

AQ Jiang, WP Geng, P Lv, J Hong, J Jiang, C Wang… - Nature Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Interfacial 'dead'layers between metals and ferroelectric thin films generally induce
detrimental effects in nanocapacitors, yet their peculiar properties can prove advantageous …

In‐Memory Computing of Multilevel Ferroelectric Domain Wall Diodes at LiNbO3 Interfaces

J Sun, Y Li, Y Ou, Q Huang, X Liao… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Direct data processing in nonvolatile memories can enable area‐and energy‐efficient
computation, unlike independent performance between separate processing and memory …

Large and accessible conductivity of charged domain walls in lithium niobate

CS Werner, SJ Herr, K Buse, B Sturman, E Soergel… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Ferroelectric domain walls are interfaces between areas of a material that exhibits different
directions of spontaneous polarization. The properties of domain walls can be very different …

Enhancing the domain wall conductivity in lithium niobate single crystals

C Godau, T Kämpfe, A Thiessen, LM Eng… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Domain walls (DWs) in ferroelectric/ferroic materials have been a central research focus for
the last 50 years; DWs bear a multitude of extraordinary physical parameters within a unit …

Hall mobilities and sheet carrier densities in a single conductive ferroelectric domain wall

H Beccard, E Beyreuther, B Kirbus, SD Seddon… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
In the last decade, conductive domain walls (CDWs) in single crystals of the uniaxial model
ferroelectric lithium niobate (Li Nb O 3; LNO) have been shown to reach resistances more …