Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Enabling nanoscale flexoelectricity at extreme temperature by tuning cation diffusion

  • Leopoldo Molina-Luna,
  • Shuai Wang,
  • Yevheniy Pivak,
  • Alexander Zintler,
  • Héctor H. Pérez-Garza,
  • Ronald G. Spruit,
  • Qiang Xu,
  • Min Yi,
  • Bai-Xiang Xu,
  • Matias Acosta

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06959-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The limited number of materials with a switchable electrical polarization available for applications can be increased by exploiting the flexoelectric effect. Here, switchable polarization in nanoparticles induced by an elemental distribution dependent strain gradient up to 800 °C is demonstrated.