Nature Communications (Apr 2022)
Chiral structures of electric polarization vectors quantified by X-ray resonant scattering
- Kook Tae Kim,
- Margaret R. McCarter,
- Vladimir A. Stoica,
- Sujit Das,
- Christoph Klewe,
- Elizabeth P. Donoway,
- David M. Burn,
- Padraic Shafer,
- Fanny Rodolakis,
- Mauro A. P. Gonçalves,
- Fernando Gómez-Ortiz,
- Jorge Íñiguez,
- Pablo García-Fernández,
- Javier Junquera,
- Sandhya Susarla,
- Stephen W. Lovesey,
- Gerrit van der Laan,
- Se Young Park,
- Lane W. Martin,
- John W. Freeland,
- Ramamoorthy Ramesh,
- Dong Ryeol Lee
Affiliations
- Kook Tae Kim
- Department of Physics, Soongsil University
- Margaret R. McCarter
- Department of Physics, University of California
- Vladimir A. Stoica
- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
- Sujit Das
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California
- Christoph Klewe
- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Elizabeth P. Donoway
- Department of Physics, University of California
- David M. Burn
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
- Padraic Shafer
- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Fanny Rodolakis
- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
- Mauro A. P. Gonçalves
- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Fernando Gómez-Ortiz
- Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra y Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Cantabria
- Jorge Íñiguez
- Materials Research and Technology Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
- Pablo García-Fernández
- Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra y Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Cantabria
- Javier Junquera
- Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra y Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Cantabria
- Sandhya Susarla
- National Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Stephen W. Lovesey
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
- Gerrit van der Laan
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
- Se Young Park
- Department of Physics, Soongsil University
- Lane W. Martin
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California
- John W. Freeland
- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
- Ramamoorthy Ramesh
- Department of Physics, University of California
- Dong Ryeol Lee
- Department of Physics, Soongsil University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29359-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
The polar chiral texture of the vortex or skyrmion structure in ferroelectric oxide PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattice attracts attention. Here, the authors report a theoretical framework to probe emergent chirality of electrical polarization textures.
