3 papers
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026
Discovery of a new weberite-type antiferroelectric: La3NbO7
Louis Alaerts, Jesse Schimpf, Xinyan Li +7
Antiferroelectrics are antipolar materials which possess an electric field-induced phase transition to a polar, ferroelectric phase and offer significant potential for sensing/actu…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
Direct determination of antiferroelectric-to-ferroelectric phase transition pathways in PbZrO with Operando Electron Microscopy
Menglin Zhu, Michael Xu, Louis Alaerts +5
Under a sufficiently high applied electric field, a non-polar antiferroelectric material, such as \ce{PbZrO3}, can undergo a rapid transformation to a polar ferroelectric phase. Wh…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
First principles computations of the Stark shift of a defect-bound exciton: the case of the T center in silicon
Louis Alaerts, Yihuang Xiong, Sinéad M. Griffin +1
The T center in silicon has recently drawn a lot of attention for its potential in quantum information science. The sensitivity of the zero-phonon line (ZPL) to electrical field wa…