Engineering polar vortex from topologically trivial domain architecture

The majority of polar structures emerging naturally in ferroelectrics are topologically trivial. Here, the authors demonstrate reconstruction of topologically trivial strip-like domain architecture into arrays of polar vortex in (PbTiO3)10/(SrTiO3)10 superlattice.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Congbing Tan, Yongqi Dong, Yuanwei Sun, Chang Liu, Pan Chen, Xiangli Zhong, Ruixue Zhu, Mingwei Liu, Jingmin Zhang, Jinbin Wang, Kaihui Liu, Xuedong Bai, Dapeng Yu, Xiaoping Ouyang, Jie Wang, Peng Gao, Zhenlin Luo, Jiangyu Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24922-y