Strain-Stabilized Ferrielectric Thin Film

Room-Temperature Phase Separation

Stabilizes a ferrielectric phase at room temperature, offering a new option for high-power energy storage thin films.

Yu, Ziyi · Fan, Ningbo · Fu, Zhengqian · He, Biao · Yan, Shiguang · Cai, Henghui · Chen, Xuefeng · Zhang, Linlin · Zhang, Yuanyuan · Xu, Bin · Wang, Gengshui · Xu, Fangfang

Nature Communications 2024

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Ferrielectric phase exhibits a threefold modulation period with nearly up-up-down polarization configuration

Phase separation occurs spontaneously in quasi-periodic stripe-like patterns