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most citedStrain fluctuations unlock ferroelectricity in wurtzites

15 citations · 42 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Ferroelectric Switching in ZnO/Zn1-xMgxO Heterostructures: Atomistic Insights into Interfacial Coupling and Layer Architecture

Alireza Sepehrinezhad, Ali Mohammadi Dinani, Ece Gunay +4

Ferroelectric switching in heterostructures couples composition, layer topology, temperature, and interfacial boundary conditions. ReaxFF molecular dynamics isolates these variable…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Heterogeneous ferroelectricity and conductivity of oxidized BaTiO crystals: the role of nanoscale phase segregation in the surface region

Christian Rodenbücher, Gustav Bihlmayer, Susan Trolier-McKinstry +3

We investigate the effect of thermal oxidation on BaTiO single crystals. Our results reveal that, even at moderate temperatures of up to 1000 °C, complex segregation mechanisms…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

An Automated Magnetron Sputtering Chamber for Ferroelectric Thin Film Deposition

Stanislav A. Udovenko, Ian Mercer, Sarah Olandt +5

Optimization of next-generation materials synthesis and manufacturing processes can be accelerated by effective use of digital datasets. However, a majority of existing custom rese…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Closed-loop discovery of out-of-distribution processing protocols by evolutionary search and uncertainty-aware learning

Yu Liu, Stanislav Udovenko, Ching-Che Lin +4

Many materials and chemical systems exhibit history-dependent responses, where functional outcomes are governed not only by final-state variables but by the time-dependent sequence…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Material-Limited Switching in Nanoscale Ferroelectrics

Tony Chiang, John J. Plombon, Megan K. Lenox +8

The ferroelectric switching speed has been experimentally obfuscated by the interaction between the measurement circuit and the ferroelectric switching itself. This has prohibited…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 5 cited

Quantitative Nonlinear Optical Polarimetry with High Spatial Resolution

Albert Suceava, Sankalpa Hazra, Jadupati Nag +8

Nonlinear optical microscopy such as in the optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) modality has become a popular tool today for probing materials in the physical and biological s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Nitrogen Vacancies Induce Fatigue in Ferroelectric

Walter J. Smith, Betul Akkopru-Akgun, Erdem Ozdemir +7

Wurtzite ferroelectrics (e.g., ) are being explored for high-temperature and emerging near-, or in-compute, memory architectures due to the material ad…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Indirect Tunneling Enabled Spontaneous Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking and Josephson Diode Effect in TiN/AlO/HfZrO/Nb tunnel junctions

Shaoqing Ding, Jinyuan Yao, Zhen Bi +6

Josephson diode (JD) effect found in Josephson tunnel junctions (JTJs) has attracted a great deal of attention due to its importance for developing superconducting circuitry based…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 7 cited

Integration of Scanning Probe Microscope with High-Performance Computing: fixed-policy and reward-driven workflows implementation

Yu Liu, Utkarsh Pratiush, Jason Bemis +8

The rapid development of computation power and machine learning algorithms has paved the way for automating scientific discovery with a scanning probe microscope (SPM). The key ele…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 13 cited

Electrical Degradation in Dielectric and Piezoelectric Oxides: Review of Defect Chemistry and Associated Characterization Techniques

Pedram Yousefian, Betul Akkopru-Akgun, Clive A. Randall +1

The properties of dielectric and piezoelectric oxides are determined by their processing history, crystal structure, chemical composition, microstructure, dopants (or defect) distr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 15 cited

Strain fluctuations unlock ferroelectricity in wurtzites

Steven M. Baksa, Simon Gelin, Seda Oturak +8

Ferroelectrics are of practical interest for non-volatile data storage due to their reorientable, crystallographically defined polarization. Yet efforts to integrate conventional f…