Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Collective dipole effects in ionic transport under electric fields

  • N. Salles,
  • L. Martin-Samos,
  • S. de Gironcoli,
  • L. Giacomazzi,
  • M. Valant,
  • A. Hemeryck,
  • P. Blaise,
  • B. Sklenard,
  • N. Richard

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17173-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Ionic transport in solids is important for applications including rapid access memories and ion-based batteries. Here, the authors introduce polarization work contributions from the migrating ion and its environment, demonstrating the representative profile is given by a unique charge parameter.