Atomic imaging of mechanically induced topological transition of ferroelectric vortices

Controlling topological polar vortices promises to open up new applications for ferroelectric materials. Here, the authors proposed a method to mechanically manipulate polar vortices and monitored the transition between vortex and ferroelectric phase by in-situ scanning transmission electron microsc...

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Main Authors: Pan Chen, Xiangli Zhong, Jacob A. Zorn, Mingqiang Li, Yuanwei Sun, Adeel Y. Abid, Chuanlai Ren, Yuehui Li, Xiaomei Li, Xiumei Ma, Jinbin Wang, Kaihui Liu, Zhi Xu, Congbing Tan, Longqing Chen, Peng Gao, Xuedong Bai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15616-y