selected publications
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academic article
- Strong strain dependence of ferroelectric coercivity in a BiFeO3 film. Applied Physics Letters. 98. 2011
- Correlated polarization switching in the proximity of a 180 degrees domain wall. Physical Review B. 82. 2010
- A modified Landau-Devonshire thermodynamic potential for strontium titanate. Applied Physics Letters. 96. 2010
- Defect-Mediated Polarization Switching in Ferroelectrics and Related Materials: From Mesoscopic Mechanisms to Atomistic Control. Advanced Materials. 22:314-322. 2010
- Phase transitions and domain stabilities in biaxially strained (001) SrTiO3 epitaxial thin films. Journal of Applied Physics. 108. 2010
- Piezoelectric response of single-crystal PbZr1-xTixO3 near morphotropic phase boundary predicted by phase-field simulation. Applied Physics Letters. 97. 2010
- Stability of the unswitched polarization state of ultrathin epitaxial Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3 in large electric fields. Physical Review B. 80. 2009
- Deterministic control of ferroelastic switching in multiferroic materials. Nature Nanotechnology. 4:868-875. 2009
- Intrinsic Nucleation Mechanism and Disorder Effects in Polarization Switching on Ferroelectric Surfaces. Physical Review Letters. 102. 2009
- Unraveling Deterministic Mesoscopic Polarization Switching Mechanisms: Spatially Resolved Studies of a Tilt Grain Boundary in Bismuth Ferrite. Advanced Functional Materials. 19:2053-2063. 2009
- Direct imaging of the spatial and energy distribution of nucleation centres in ferroelectric materials. Nature Materials. 7:209-215. 2008
- Computer simulation of ferroelectric domain structures in epitaxial BiFeO(3) thin films. Journal of Applied Physics. 103. 2008
- Domain stability of PbTiO(3) thin films under anisotropic misfit strains: Phase-field simulations. Journal of Applied Physics. 104. 2008
- Effect of ferroelastic twin walls on local polarization switching: Phase-field modeling. Applied Physics Letters. 93. 2008
- Influence of interfacial dislocations on hysteresis loops of ferroelectric films. Journal of Applied Physics. 104. 2008
- Misfit strain-misfit strain diagram of epitaxial BaTiO3 thin films: Thermodynamic calculations and phase-field simulations. Applied Physics Letters. 93. 2008
- Strain effect on coercive field of epitaxial barium titanate thin films. Applied Physics Letters. 92. 2008
- The influence of 180 degrees ferroelectric domain wall width on the threshold field for wall motion. Journal of Applied Physics. 104. 2008
- Three-dimensional phase-field simulation of domain structures in ferroelectric islands. Applied Physics Letters. 92. 2008
- Correlation between number of ferroelectric variants and coercive field of lead ziconate titanate single crystals. Applied Physics Letters. 91. 2007
- Effect of grain orientation and grain size on ferroelectric domain switching and evolution: Phase field simulations. Acta Materialia. 55:1415-1426. 2007
- Intrinsic single-domain switching in ferroelectric materials on a nearly ideal surface. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104:20204-20209. 2007
- Phase transitions and domain structures in strained pseudocubic (100) SrTiO3 thin films. Physical Review B. 73. 2006
- A phase diagram for epitaxial PbZr1-xTixO3 thin films at the bulk morphotropic boundary composition. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 88:1669-1672. 2005
- Phase-field simulation of polarization switching and domain evolution in ferroelectric polycrystals. Acta Materialia. 53:5313-5321. 2005
- Room-temperature ferroelectricity in strained SrTiO3. Nature. 430:758-761. 2004
- Effect of external mechanical constraints on the phase diagram of epitaxial PbZr1-xTixO3 thin films - thermodynamic calculations and phase-field simulations. Applied Physics Letters. 83:1608-1610. 2003