The Ferroelectricity at the Nanoscale

Authors

Vladimir M. Fridkin, Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences, MoscowFollow
Stephen Ducharme, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2014

Citation

Published in Ferroelectrics, 466:133–144 (2014); doi: 10.1080/00150193.2014.895201

Comments

Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Used by permission.

Abstract

The review of ferroelectric properties at the nanoscale is presented. Determining the nanoscale, authors bear in mind the film thickness equal by the order of value to the size of critical domain nucleus. Three phenomena are considered: ferroelectric switching, scaling of coercive field and bulk photovoltaic effect. The investigation of ferroelectricity at the nanoscale started 20 years ago. The nanoscaled ferroelectricics with perovskite structure came to be considered only the last few years.