Nature Communications (Jul 2021)
Engineering polar vortex from topologically trivial domain architecture
- Congbing Tan,
- Yongqi Dong,
- Yuanwei Sun,
- Chang Liu,
- Pan Chen,
- Xiangli Zhong,
- Ruixue Zhu,
- Mingwei Liu,
- Jingmin Zhang,
- Jinbin Wang,
- Kaihui Liu,
- Xuedong Bai,
- Dapeng Yu,
- Xiaoping Ouyang,
- Jie Wang,
- Peng Gao,
- Zhenlin Luo,
- Jiangyu Li
Affiliations
- Congbing Tan
- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Sensors and Advanced Sensor Materials, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University of Science and Technology
- Yongqi Dong
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Nanobiomechanics, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yuanwei Sun
- International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University
- Chang Liu
- Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University
- Pan Chen
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xiangli Zhong
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University
- Ruixue Zhu
- International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University
- Mingwei Liu
- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Sensors and Advanced Sensor Materials, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University of Science and Technology
- Jingmin Zhang
- Electron Microscopy Laboratory, School of Physics, Peking University
- Jinbin Wang
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University
- Kaihui Liu
- Electron Microscopy Laboratory, School of Physics, Peking University
- Xuedong Bai
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Dapeng Yu
- Collaborative Innovation Centre of Quantum Matter
- Xiaoping Ouyang
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University
- Jie Wang
- Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University
- Peng Gao
- International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University
- Zhenlin Luo
- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China
- Jiangyu Li
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24922-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
The majority of polar structures emerging naturally in ferroelectrics are topologically trivial. Here, the authors demonstrate reconstruction of topologically trivial strip-like domain architecture into arrays of polar vortex in (PbTiO3)10/(SrTiO3)10 superlattice.
