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perma:LIST.6W7JL1 |
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Publication Date
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2025-12-09 |
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Title
| Observation of room-temperature polar skyrmions [* Cross-Reference *] |
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Other Identifier
| https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1092-8 |
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Author
| Das, S. (Department of Materials Science and Engineering)
Tang, Y. L. (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Hong, Z. (Pennsylvania State University)
Gonçalves, M. A.P. (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)
McCarter, M. R. (University of California, Berkeley)
Klewe, C. (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Nguyen, K. X. (Cornell University)
Gómez-Ortiz, F. (Universidad de Cantabria)
Shafer, P. (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Arenholz, E. (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Stoica, V. A. (Pennsylvania State University)
Hsu, S. L. (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Wang, B. (Pennsylvania State University)
Ophus, C. (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Liu, J. F. (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Nelson, C. T. (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Saremi, S. (Department of Materials Science and Engineering)
Prasad, B. (Department of Materials Science and Engineering)
Mei, A. B. (Cornell University College of Engineering)
Schlom, D. G. (Cornell University College of Engineering, Kavli Institute at Cornell for NanoScale Science)
Íñiguez, J. (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, University of Luxembourg)
García-Fernández, P. (Universidad de Cantabria)
Muller, D. A. (Kavli Institute at Cornell for NanoScale Science, Cornell University College of Engineering)
Chen, L. Q. (Pennsylvania State University)
Junquera, J. (Universidad de Cantabria)
Martin, L. W. (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Ramesh, R. (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley) |
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Description
| Complex topological configurations are fertile ground for exploring emergent phenomena and exotic phases in condensed-matter physics. For example, the recent discovery of polarization vortices and their associated complex-phase coexistence and response under applied electric fields in superlattices of (PbTiO3)n/(SrTiO3)n suggests the presence of a complex, multi-dimensional system capable of interesting physical responses, such as chirality, negative capacitance and large piezo-electric responses1–3. Here, by varying epitaxial constraints, we discover room-temperature polar-skyrmion bubbles in a lead titanate layer confined by strontium titanate layers, which are imaged by atomic-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy. Phase-field modelling and second-principles calculations reveal that the polar-skyrmion bubbles have a skyrmion number of +1, and resonant soft-X-ray diffraction experiments show circular dichroism, confirming chirality. Such nanometre-scale polar-skyrmion bubbles are the electric analogues of magnetic skyrmions, and could contribute to the advancement of ferroelectrics towards functionalities incorporating emergent chirality and electrically controllable negative capacitance. (2019-01-01)
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Subject
| Other |
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Keyword
| Complex topological configurations
exploring emergent phenomena
condensed-matter physics
topological configurations |
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Deposit Date
| 2019-01-01 |
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Data Type
| Article |