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most citedRecent Progress on Multiferroic Hexagonal Rare-Earth Ferrites (h-RFeO3, R = Y,Dy-Lu)

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Twist-induced Out-of-plane Ferroelectricity in Bilayer Hafnia

Jian Huang, Gwan Yeong Jung, Pravan Omprakash +6

Ferroelectric HfO2 is a promising candidate for next-generation memory devices due to its CMOS compatibility and ability to retain polarization at nanometer scales. However, the po…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Strong tunability of epitaxial relationship and reconstruction at improper ferroelectric interface

Xin Li, Yu Yun, Guodong Ren +4

The atomic structures at epitaxial film-substrate interfaces determine scalability of thin films and can result in new phenomena. However, it is challenging to control the interfac…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Antiferroelectricity with metastable polar state from Kittel model

Amit Kumar Shah, Xin Li, Guodong Ren +3

We have revisited the Kittel model that describes antiferroelectricity (AFE) in terms of two sublattices of spontaneous polarization with antiparallel couplings. By constructing th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Polarization Pinning at Antiphase Boundaries in Multiferroic YbFeO

Guodong Ren, Pravan Omprakash, Xin Li +4

The switching characteristics of ferroelectrics and multiferroics are influenced by the interaction of topological defects with domain-walls. We report on the pinning of polarizati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 9 cited

Recent Progress on Multiferroic Hexagonal Rare-Earth Ferrites (h-RFeO3, R = Y,Dy-Lu)

Xin Li, Yu Yun, Xiaoshan Xu

Multiferroic hexagonal rare-earth ferrites (h-RFeO3, R=Sc, Y, and rare earth), in which the improper ferroelectricity and canted antiferromagnetism coexist, have been advocated as…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Improper flexoelectricity in hexagonal rare-earth ferrites

Xin Li, Guodong Ren, Yu Yun +5

Flexoelectricity is a universal effect that generates electric polarization due to broken inversion symmetry caused by local strain gradient. The large strain gradient at nanoscale…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Antiferroelectric Hafnia Down to the 2D Limit

Xin Li, Guodong Ren, Haidong Lu +16

Antiferroelectricity is a material property characterized by alternating electric dipoles spontaneously ordered in antiparallel directions. Antiferroelectrics are promising for ene…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 6 cited

Giant interfacial spin-Hall angle from Rashba-Edelstein effect revealed by the spin-Hall Hanle processes

Jing Li, Andrew H. Comstock, Aeron McConnell +2

The Rashba-Edelstein effect (REE), which generates interfacial spin polarization and subsequent spin current, is a compelling spin-charge conversion mechanism for spintronics appli…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 4 cited

Dual mechanisms for transient capacitance anomaly in improper ferroelectrics

Xin Li, Yu Yun, Pratyush Buragohain +6

The recent discovery of transient negative capacitance has sparked an intense debate on the role of homogeneous and inhomogeneous mechanisms in polarizations switching. In this wor…