Communications Materials (Aug 2020)

Antiferroelectricity in a family of pyroxene-like oxides with rich polymorphism

  • Hugo Aramberri,
  • Jorge Íñiguez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-020-00051-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Antiferroelectrics are technologically important for energy conversion and storage, but are relatively scarce. Here, first-principles calculations suggest that alkali vanadates are as yet undetected antiferroelectrics, offering routes to experimentally tune and optimize their behavior.