Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Well-defined double hysteresis loop in NaNbO3 antiferroelectrics

  • Nengneng Luo,
  • Li Ma,
  • Gengguang Luo,
  • Chao Xu,
  • Lixiang Rao,
  • Zhengu Chen,
  • Zhenyong Cen,
  • Qin Feng,
  • Xiyong Chen,
  • Fujita Toyohisa,
  • Ye Zhu,
  • Jiawang Hong,
  • Jing-Feng Li,
  • Shujun Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37469-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Here, the authors design NaNbO3 based ceramics with the aim of enabling a field-induced reversible phase transformation between the antiferroelectric and ferroelectric phases, which manifests itself in a well-defined double hysteresis loop in the P-E hysteresis curve.