Atomic scale symmetry and polar nanoclusters in the paraelectric phase of ferroelectric materials

The existence and atomic-level structure of the hypothetical polar nanoclusters above the Curie temperature is one of the oldest open questions in the physics of ferroelectrics. Here, the authors find the polar nanoclusters in the paraelectric phases of classical perovskite ferroelectrics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andreja Bencan, Emad Oveisi, Sina Hashemizadeh, Vignaswaran K. Veerapandiyan, Takuya Hoshina, Tadej Rojac, Marco Deluca, Goran Drazic, Dragan Damjanovic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23600-3