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HAFNIA FERROELECTRICS

Ferroelectricity in bulk hafnia

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Ferroelectricity in bulk crystals of hafnium oxide demonstrates that these properties are not limited to films prepared by thin-film deposition techniques.

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Fig. 1: Factors involved in stabilizing the ferroelectric orthorhombic phase in hafnium oxide.

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Mikolajick, T., Schroeder, U. Ferroelectricity in bulk hafnia. Nat. Mater. 20, 718–719 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-00914-z

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