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Ferroelectric translational antiphase boundaries in nonpolar materials

Wei, Xian-Kui
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Tagantsev, Alexander K.
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Kvasov, Alexander
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2014
Nature Communications

Ferroelectric materials are heavily used in electro-mechanics and electronics. Inside the ferroelectric, domain walls separate regions in which the spontaneous polarization is differently oriented. Properties of ferroelectric domain walls can differ from those of the domains themselves, leading to new exploitable phenomena. Even more exciting is that a non-ferroelectric material may have domain boundaries that are ferroelectric. Many materials possess translational antiphase boundaries. Such boundaries could be interesting entities to carry information if they were ferroelectric. Here we show first that antiphase boundaries in antiferroelectrics may possess ferroelectricity. We then identify these boundaries in the classical antiferroelectric lead zirconate and evidence their polarity by electronmicroscopy using negative spherical-aberration imaging technique. Ab initio modelling confirms the polar bi-stable nature of the walls. Ferroelectric antiphase boundaries could make high-density non-volatile memory; in comparison with the magnetic domain wall memory, they do not require current for operation and are an order of magnitude thinner.

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research article
DOI
10.1038/ncomms4031
Web of Science ID

WOS:000331083800014

Author(s)
Wei, Xian-Kui
Tagantsev, Alexander K.
Kvasov, Alexander
Roleder, Krystian
Jia, Chun-Lin
Setter, Nava
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

Nature Research

Published in
Nature Communications
Volume

5

Issue

1

Article Number

3031

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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January 23, 2014
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