Recent progress on topological structures in ferroic thin films and heterostructures

S Chen, S Yuan, Z Hou, Y Tang, J Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Topological spin/polarization structures in ferroic materials continue to draw great attention
as a result of their fascinating physical behaviors and promising applications in the field of …

Understanding, predicting, and designing ferroelectric domain structures and switching guided by the phase-field method

JJ Wang, B Wang, LQ Chen - Annual Review of Materials …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Understanding mesoscale ferroelectric domain structures and their switching behavior
under external fields is critical to applications of ferroelectrics. The phase-field method has …

Topology and control of self-assembled domain patterns in low-dimensional ferroelectrics

Y Nahas, S Prokhorenko, Q Zhang, V Govinden… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Whilst often discussed as non-trivial phases of low-dimensional ferroelectrics, modulated
polar phases such as the dipolar maze and the nano-bubble state have been appraised as …

Hexagonal Close-Packed Polar-Skyrmion Lattice in Ultrathin Ferroelectric Films

S Yuan, Z Chen, S Prokhorenko, Y Nahas, L Bellaiche… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
Polar skyrmions are topologically stable, swirling polarization textures with particlelike
characteristics, which hold promise for next-generation, nanoscale logic and memory …

Polar and quasicrystal vortex observed in twisted-bilayer molybdenum disulfide

CS Tsang, X Zheng, T Yang, Z Yan, W Han, LW Wong… - Science, 2024 - science.org
We report the observation of an electric field in twisted-bilayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)
and elucidate its correlation with local polar domains using four-dimensional scanning …

Phase‐Field Simulations of Tunable Polar Topologies in Lead‐Free Ferroelectric/Paraelectric Multilayers with Ultrahigh Energy‐Storage Performance

Y Liu, J Liu, H Pan, X Cheng, Z Hong, B Xu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dielectric capacitors are emerging energy‐storage components that require both high
energy‐storage density and high efficiency. The conventional approach to energy‐storage …

Manipulating topological transformations of polar structures through real-time observation of the dynamic polarization evolution

K Du, M Zhang, C Dai, ZN Zhou, YW Xie… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Topological structures based on controllable ferroelectric or ferromagnetic domain
configurations offer the opportunity to develop microelectronic devices such as high-density …

Entangled polarizations in ferroelectrics: A focused review of polar topologies

YJ Wang, YL Tang, YL Zhu, XL Ma - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Ferroelectric crystals feature asymmetric or polar structures that are switchable under an
external electric field, holding promise for information storage. Nanoscale ferroelectrics …

Engineering Relaxor Behavior in (BaTiO3)n/(SrTiO3)n Superlattices

E Lupi, RB Wexler, D Meyers, A Zahradnik… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Complex‐oxide superlattices provide a pathway to numerous emergent phenomena
because of the juxtaposition of disparate properties and the strong interfacial interactions in …

Vortex domain walls in ferroelectrics

Z Hong, S Das, C Nelson, A Yadav, Y Wu… - Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Controlling the domain formation in ferroelectric materials at the nanoscale is a fertile
ground to explore emergent phenomena and their technological prospects. For example …