Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Giant conductivity of mobile non-oxide domain walls

  • S. Ghara,
  • K. Geirhos,
  • L. Kuerten,
  • P. Lunkenheimer,
  • V. Tsurkan,
  • M. Fiebig,
  • I. Kézsmárki

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24160-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Conductive domain walls have been usually found in ferroelectric oxides. Here, the authors report on giant conductivity of domain walls and their magnetically avalanche-like expulsion event in non-oxide ferroelectric GaV4S8, extending the source of phenomena beyond the realm of oxide electronics.