Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Visualization of ferroaxial domains in an order-disorder type ferroaxial crystal

  • T. Hayashida,
  • Y. Uemura,
  • K. Kimura,
  • S. Matsuoka,
  • D. Morikawa,
  • S. Hirose,
  • K. Tsuda,
  • T. Hasegawa,
  • T. Kimura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18408-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The presence of ferroaxial domain states is recently experimentally demonstrated by a nonlinear optical technique, which lacks high spatial resolution to visualize ferroaxial domains. Here, the authors visualize spatial distributions of ferroaxial domains in NiTiO3 showing an order-disorder type ferroaxial transition.