Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research

 

Date of this Version

2014

Citation

Published in Physics—Uspekhi 57:6 (2014), pp. 597– 603; doi: 10.3367/UFNe.0184.201406d.0645

Original Russian version published in Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk 184:6 (2014), pp. 645–651.

Comments

Copyright © 2014 Russian Academy of Sciences. Published by IOP Publishing. Used by permission.

Abstract

The properties of ferroelectrics at the nanoscale are reviewed. The term nanoscale is here related to the ferroelectric film thickness (which is by an order of magnitude the size of the critical domain nucleus). The three aspects considered are ferroelectric switching, the scaling of the coercive field, and the bulk photovoltaic effect. While ferroelectricity at the nanoscale has a twenty-year history of study, it is only in the last few years that perovskite ferroelectric films have become a focus of interest.

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