Nature Communications (Apr 2021)
Creating polar antivortex in PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattice
- Adeel Y. Abid,
- Yuanwei Sun,
- Xu Hou,
- Congbing Tan,
- Xiangli Zhong,
- Ruixue Zhu,
- Haoyun Chen,
- Ke Qu,
- Yuehui Li,
- Mei Wu,
- Jingmin Zhang,
- Jinbin Wang,
- Kaihui Liu,
- Xuedong Bai,
- Dapeng Yu,
- Xiaoping Ouyang,
- Jie Wang,
- Jiangyu Li,
- Peng Gao
Affiliations
- Adeel Y. Abid
- International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University
- Yuanwei Sun
- International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University
- Xu Hou
- Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University
- Congbing Tan
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University
- Xiangli Zhong
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University
- Ruixue Zhu
- International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University
- Haoyun Chen
- Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University
- Ke Qu
- Electron Microscopy Laboratory, School of Physics, Peking University
- Yuehui Li
- International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University
- Mei Wu
- International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University
- Jingmin Zhang
- Electron Microscopy Laboratory, School of Physics, Peking University
- Jinbin Wang
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University
- Kaihui Liu
- Collaborative Innovation Centre of Quantum Matter
- 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
- Jiangyu Li
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Nanobiomechanics, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Peng Gao
- International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22356-0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 7
Abstract
While the role of PbTiO3 in PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattices has been widely studied, little attention is paid to possible polar topologies in SrTiO3. Here, the authors create atomic-scale vortex–antivortex pairs in the superlattices, expanding the understanding of topological structures.
