Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Depolarization of multidomain ferroelectric materials

  • Dong Zhao,
  • Thomas Lenz,
  • Gerwin H. Gelinck,
  • Pim Groen,
  • Dragan Damjanovic,
  • Dago M. de Leeuw,
  • Ilias Katsouras

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10530-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The depolarization dynamics in ferroelectric materials is important for applications as it governs data loss. Here, the authors find a universal constant in ferroelectric materials that gives the boundary between a depolarizing and thermodynamically stable regime.