Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Super-crystals in composite ferroelectrics

  • D. Pierangeli,
  • M. Ferraro,
  • F. Di Mei,
  • G. Di Domenico,
  • C. E. M. de Oliveira,
  • A. J. Agranat,
  • E. DelRe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10674
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Crystalline materials are formed by the periodic order of atomic unit cells. Here, Pierangeli et al. report the formation of a ferrelectric super-crystal with micrometric unit cell from modulated nanoscale disorder in potassium-lithium-tantalate-niobate, which is potentially useful for engineering ordered states out of disorder.