Nature Communications (Jan 2022)
Signatures of enhanced out-of-plane polarization in asymmetric BaTiO3 superlattices integrated on silicon
- Binbin Chen,
- Nicolas Gauquelin,
- Nives Strkalj,
- Sizhao Huang,
- Ufuk Halisdemir,
- Minh Duc Nguyen,
- Daen Jannis,
- Martin F. Sarott,
- Felix Eltes,
- Stefan Abel,
- Matjaž Spreitzer,
- Manfred Fiebig,
- Morgan Trassin,
- Jean Fompeyrine,
- Johan Verbeeck,
- Mark Huijben,
- Guus Rijnders,
- Gertjan Koster
Affiliations
- Binbin Chen
- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente
- Nicolas Gauquelin
- Electron Microscopy for Materials Science (EMAT), University of Antwerp
- Nives Strkalj
- Department of Materials, ETH Zurich
- Sizhao Huang
- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente
- Ufuk Halisdemir
- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente
- Minh Duc Nguyen
- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente
- Daen Jannis
- Electron Microscopy for Materials Science (EMAT), University of Antwerp
- Martin F. Sarott
- Department of Materials, ETH Zurich
- Felix Eltes
- Lumiphase AG
- Stefan Abel
- Lumiphase AG
- Matjaž Spreitzer
- Advanced Materials Department, Jožef Stefan Institute
- Manfred Fiebig
- Department of Materials, ETH Zurich
- Morgan Trassin
- Department of Materials, ETH Zurich
- Jean Fompeyrine
- Lumiphase AG
- Johan Verbeeck
- Electron Microscopy for Materials Science (EMAT), University of Antwerp
- Mark Huijben
- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente
- Guus Rijnders
- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente
- Gertjan Koster
- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27898-x
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Integrating multifunctional oxides on silicon is highly desirable. Here, the authors present asymmetric BaTiO3 superlattices on silicon exhibiting enhanced out-of-plane polarization by harnessing the interfacial strain and broken inversion symmetry.
