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most citedRoom-temperature multiferroic hexagonal LuFeO films

235 citations · 897 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 47 cited

Ionic control over ferroelectricity in 2D layered van der Waals capacitors

Sabine M. Neumayer, Mengwei Si, Junkang Li +7

The van der Waals layered material CuInP2S6 features interesting functional behavior, including the existence of four uniaxial polarization states, polarization reversal against th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 23 cited

Unique features of polarization in ferroelectric ionic conductors

Andrew O'Hara, Nina Balke, Sokrates T. Pantelides

Ferroelectrics that are also ionic conductors offer possibilities for novel applications with high tunability, especially if the same atomic species causes both phenomena. In parti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Fast Scanning Probe Microscopy via Machine Learning: Non-rectangular scans with compressed sensing and Gaussian process optimization

Kyle P. Kelley, Maxim Ziatdinov, Liam Collins +5

Fast scanning probe microscopy enabled via machine learning allows for a broad range of nanoscale, temporally resolved physics to be uncovered. However, such examples for functiona…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 16 cited

To switch or not to switch -- a machine learning approach for ferroelectricity

Sabine M. Neumayer, Stephen Jesse, Gabriel Velarde +5

With the advent of increasingly elaborate experimental techniques in physics, chemistry and materials sciences, measured data are becoming bigger and more complex. The observables…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

Dynamic manipulation in piezoresponse force microscopy: creating non-equilibrium phases with large electromechanical response

Kyle P. Kelley, Yao Ren, Anna N. Morozovska +9

Domains walls and topological defects in ferroelectric materials have emerged as a powerful new paradigm for functional electronic devices including memory and logic. Similarly, wa…

physics.app-ph2019

Piezoresponse phase as variable in electromechanical characterization

Sabine M. Neumayer, Sahar Saremi, Lane W. Martin +5

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is a powerful characterization technique to readily image and manipulate ferroelectrics domains. PFM gives insight into the strength of local p…

cond-mat.str-el2019

Competing Phases in Epitaxial Vanadium Dioxide at Nanoscale

Yogesh Sharma, Martin V. Holt, Nouamane Laanait +11

Phase competition in correlated oxides offers tantalizing opportunities as many intriguing physical phenomena occur near the phase transitions. Owing to a sharp metal-insulator tra…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 74 cited

Giant negative electrostriction and dielectric tunability in a van der Waals layered ferroelectric

Sabine M. Neumayer, Eugene A. Eliseev, Michael A. Susner +11

The interest in ferroelectric van der Waals crystals arises from the potential to realize ultrathin ferroic systems owing to the reduced surface energy of these materials and the l…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Ferroelectric or non-ferroelectric: why so many materials exhibit ferroelectricity on the nanoscale

Rama K. Vasudevan, Nina Balke, Peter Maksymovych +2

Ferroelectric materials have remained one of the foci of condensed matter physics and materials science for over 50 years. In the last 20 years, the development of voltage-modulate…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 60 cited

Quantification of Probe-Sample Electrostatic Forces with Dynamic Atomic Force Microscopy

Nina Balke, Stephen Jesse, Ben Carmichael +4

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) methods utilizing resonant mechanical vibrations of cantilevers in contact with a sample surface have shown sensitivities as high as few picometers fo…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 43 cited

Enhancing interfacial magnetization with a ferroelectric

Tricia L. Meyer, 1 Andreas Herklotz, Valeria Lauter +9

Ferroelectric control of interfacial magnetism has attracted much attention. However, the coupling of these two functionalities has not been understood well at the atomic scale. Th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 120 cited

Quantification of surface displacements and electromechanical phenomena via dynamic atomic force microscopy

Nina Balke, Stephen Jesse, Pu Yu +3

Detection of dynamic surface displacements associated with local changes in material strain provides access to a number of phenomena and material properties. Contact resonance-enha…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 48 cited

Electrostrictive and electrostatic responses in contact mode voltage modulated Scanning Probe Microscopies

Eugene A. Eliseev, Anna N. Morozovska, Anton V. Ievlev +4

Electromechanical response of solids underpins image formation mechanism of several scanning probe microscopy techniques including the piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) and elec…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 10 cited

Unit cell orientation of tetragonal-like BiFeO thin films grown on highly miscut LaAlO substrates

C. Beekman, W. Siemons, T. Z. Ward +7

Synchrotron and lab-scale x-ray diffraction shows that tetragonal-like T'-BiFeO3 films on miscut LaAlO3 substrates (miscut < 5 deg) exhibit (00l)-planes tilted away from those of t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 235 cited

Room-temperature multiferroic hexagonal LuFeO films

Wenbin Wang, Jun Zhao, Wenbo Wang +15

The crystal and magnetic structures of single-crystalline hexagonal LuFeO films have been studied using x-ray, electron and neutron diffraction methods. The polar structure of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 63 cited

Watching Domains Grow: In-situ studies of polarization switching by combined Scanning Probe and Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Hyejung Chang, Sergei V. Kalinin, Seungyeul Yang +9

Ferroelectric domain nucleation and growth in multiferroic BiFeO3 films is observed directly by applying a local electric field with a conductive tip inside a scanning transmission…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 158 cited

Local probing of ionic diffusion by electrochemical strain microscopy: spatial resolution and signal formation mechanisms

A. N. Morozovska, E. A. Eliseev, N. Balke +1

Electrochemical insertion-deintercalation reactions are typically associated with significant change of molar volume of the host compound. This strong coupling between ionic curren…