Quantification of flexoelectricity in PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattice polar vortices using machine learning and phase-field modeling

Flexoelectric coupling between strain gradients and polarization influences the physics of ferroelectric devices but it is difficult to directly probe its effects. Here, Li et al. use principal component analysis to compare STEM images with phase-field modeling and extract the flexoelectric contribu...

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Main Authors: Q. Li, C. T. Nelson, S.-L. Hsu, A. R. Damodaran, L.-L. Li, A. K. Yadav, M. McCarter, L. W. Martin, R. Ramesh, S. V. Kalinin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01733-8