Biological ferroelectrics

Ferroelectrics for Biomedical Applications

Currently, researchers are mainly focusing the phase transitions, domain structures, domain wall functionalities, magneto electric coupling, and the potential applications in high-density ferroelectric non-volatile memories of ferroelectric materials [1-5]. However, there are relatively less research interests in the biomedical applications of ferroelectric materials which is very important to ...

Two-Dimensional Ferroelectrics

The investigation of the finite-size effect in ferroelectric crystals and films has been limited by the experimental conditions. The smallest demonstrated ferroelectric crystals had a diameter of 200 A and the thinnest ferroelectric films were 200 A thick, macroscopic sizes on an atomic scale. Langmuir ± Blodgett deposition of films one monolayer at a time has produced high quality ferroelectri...

Hydrogen in Ferroelectrics

Super-crystals in composite ferroelectrics

As atoms and molecules condense to form solids, a crystalline state can emerge with its highly ordered geometry and subnanometric lattice constant. In some physical systems, such as ferroelectric perovskites, a perfect crystalline structure forms even when the condensing substances are non-stoichiometric. The resulting solids have compositional disorder and complex macroscopic properties, such ...

A Landau Primer for Ferroelectrics