For over 70 years, ferroelectric materials have been one of the central research topics for
condensed matter physics and material science, an interest driven both by fundamental …

Ferroelectric relaxors continue to be one of the most mysterious solid-state materials. Since
their discovery by Smolenskii and coworkers, there have been many attempts to understand …

Abstract Domain walls and phase boundaries are fundamental ingredients of ferroelectrics
and strongly influence their functional properties. Although both interfaces have been …

The application of the most effective methods of the domain visualization in model uniaxial
ferroelectrics of lithium niobate (LN) and lithium tantalate (LT) family, and relaxor strontium …

Currently, ferroelectric materials with designed domain structures are considered as a
perspective material for new generation of photonic, data storage, and data processing …

The creation of the periodical domain patterns with a submicron period in lithium niobate on
insulator (LNOI) wafers is a key problem for nonlinear-optical applications, including second …

The effects of domain wall shape instabilities and the formation of nanodomains in front of
moving walls obtained in various uniaxial ferroelectrics are discussed. Special attention is …

Ferroelectric monoclinic phases have attracted exceptional attention as the origin of giant
piezoelectricity, whilst the detailed contributions of ferroelastic domain switching and electric …

It was demonstrated that confocal Raman microscopy (CRM) could be used for domain
imaging in the calcium orthovanadate Ca3 (VO4) 2 single crystals. The domain contrast …

High piezoelectric activity of many ferroelectrics has been the focus of numerous recent
studies. The structural origin of this activity remains poorly understood due to a lack of …