Nature Communications (Oct 2022)
Electric-field control of the nucleation and motion of isolated three-fold polar vertices
- Mingqiang Li,
- Tiannan Yang,
- Pan Chen,
- Yongjun Wang,
- Ruixue Zhu,
- Xiaomei Li,
- Ruochen Shi,
- Heng-Jui Liu,
- Yen-Lin Huang,
- Xiumei Ma,
- Jingmin Zhang,
- Xuedong Bai,
- Long-Qing Chen,
- Ying-Hao Chu,
- Peng Gao
Affiliations
- Mingqiang Li
- Electron Microscopy Laboratory, and International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University
- Tiannan Yang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
- Pan Chen
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yongjun Wang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
- Ruixue Zhu
- Electron Microscopy Laboratory, and International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University
- Xiaomei Li
- Electron Microscopy Laboratory, and International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University
- Ruochen Shi
- Electron Microscopy Laboratory, and International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University
- Heng-Jui Liu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Chung Hsing University
- Yen-Lin Huang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
- Xiumei Ma
- Electron Microscopy Laboratory, and International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University
- Jingmin Zhang
- Electron Microscopy Laboratory, and International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University
- Xuedong Bai
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Long-Qing Chen
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
- Ying-Hao Chu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
- Peng Gao
- Electron Microscopy Laboratory, and International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33973-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Despite various known topological polar structures, the dynamic property of isolated ones is still poorly understood. Here, the authors show the controlled nucleation and ability to move of isolated three-fold vertices under an applied electric field.
