Ferroelectricity and Structural Phase Transitions

Presentations

• Strained enabled Ferroelectricity in CaTiO$_{3}$ Thin Films Probed by Nonlinear Optics and Scanning Probe Microscopy

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 2:30 PM – March 18, 2009, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Eftihia Vlahos

    • Pennsylvania State University
    • Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

  • Amit Kumar

    • Pennsylvania State University
    • Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

  • S. Denev

    • Pennsylvania State University
    • Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

  • Charles Brooks

    • Cornell University
    • Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

  • D.G. Schlom

    • Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University
    • Cornell University

  • Carl-Johan Eklund

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University
    • Rutgers University

  • K. M. Rabe

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University
    • Rutgers University

  • Craig J. Fennie

    • Cornell University
    • Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University

  • V. Gopalan

    • Pennsylvania State University
    • Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

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• Potential and piezoelectric response imaging of 180$^{\circ}$ domain of atomically ordered clean surfaces of BaTiO$_{3}$ single crystals in UHV

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 2:42 PM – March 18, 2009, 2:54 PM

  Authors

  • S.W. Cheong

    • Rutgers Uinv.

  • Yukio Watanabe

    • Kyushu Univ.
    • Kyushu University

  • S. Kaku

  • D. Matsumoto

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• Magnetic Color Symmetry of Lattice Rotations in a Non-magnetic Material

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 2:54 PM – March 18, 2009, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • S. Denev

    • Pennsylvania State University
    • Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

  • A. Kumar

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • M. D. Biegalski

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • H. W. Jang

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • C. M. Folkman

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • A. Vasudevarao

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • Y. Han

    • University of Sheffield

  • I. M. Reaney

    • University of Sheffield

  • S. Trolier-McKinstry

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • C.-B. Eom

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • D. G. Schlom

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • V. Gopalan

    • Pennsylvania State University

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• Spontaneous polarization and piezoelectricity in polar molecular crystals

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 3:06 PM – March 18, 2009, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Ivo Borriello

    • University of Naples Federico II, Naples Italy

  • Giovanni Cantele

    • CNR-INFM-Coherentia, Universita' di Napoli Federico II , Naples, Italy
    • CNR-COHERENTIA, University of Naples Federico II, Naples Italy

  • Domenico Ninno

    • Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
    • University of Naples Federico II, Naples Italy

  • Giuseppe Iadonisi

    • University of Naples Federico II, Naples Italy

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• Interfaces in ferroelastics: fringing fields, scaling, size and shape effects

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 3:18 PM – March 18, 2009, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Turab Lookman

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Local Polarization Dynamics and Bias-Induced Phase Transitions in Ferroelectric Relaxors: Time-resolved Spectroscopy and Ergodic Gap Mapping

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 3:30 PM – March 18, 2009, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • S.V. Kalinin

  • B. Rodriguez

  • M.P. Nikiforov

  • N. Balke

  • S. Jesse

  • O.S. Ovchinnikov

  • A.A. Bokov

  • Z.-G. Ye

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• Field Dependence of Glassy Freezing in a Relaxor Ferroelectric

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 3:42 PM – March 18, 2009, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Matthew Delgado

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Eugene Colla

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Michael Weissman

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Philip Griffin

    • University of Tennessee

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• The three characteristic Temperatures of Relaxor Dynamics and their Meaning

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 3:54 PM – March 18, 2009, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Jean Toulouse

    • Lehigh University

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• Quantum Fluctuation of the Order Parameter in a Structural Phase Transition

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 4:06 PM – March 18, 2009, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • J.L. Smith

    • Los Alamos Nat'l Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Stephen Shapiro

    • Brookhaven Nat'l Lab
    • Brookhaven National Laboratory
    • Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA

  • K.A. Modic

    • Los Alamos Nat'l Lab

  • Jason Cooley

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Nat'l Lab

  • E.K.H. Salje

    • Cambridge University

  • Peter Littlewood

    • Cambridge University
    • University of Cambridge

  • C.P. Opeil

    • Boston College

  • J.C. Lashley

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Nat'l Lab

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• First principles determination of phase transitions in magnetic shape memory alloys

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 4:18 PM – March 18, 2009, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Tilmann Hickel

    • MPI fuer Eisenforschung GmbH

  • Matthe Uijttewaal

  • Joerg Neugebauer

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• A fluctuation-based probe to criticality in structural transitions

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 4:30 PM – March 18, 2009, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • U. Chandni

    • Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012

  • Arindam Ghosh

    • Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India.
    • Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012

  • H.S. Vijaya

    • Department of Instrumentation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012

  • S. Mohan

    • Department of Instrumentation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012

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• Structural phase transformations and dislocations within the Landau theory

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 4:42 PM – March 18, 2009, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Roman Gr\"oger

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Turab Lookman

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Avadh Saxena

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos National Lab

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• Spontaneous phase transition of nano-sized boron nitride -- A quantum size effect

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 4:54 PM – March 18, 2009, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Hongli Dang

    • University of Tulsa

  • Y.G. Shen

    • City University of Hong Kong

  • Sanwu Wang

    • University of Tulsa

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• High Pressure Studies of the Metal-Insulator Transition in Pure NiS2

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 5:06 PM – March 18, 2009, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Arnab Banerjee

    • James Frank Institute, The University of Chicago

  • Yejun Feng

    • James Frank Institute, The University of Chicago

  • R. Jaramillo

    • James Frank Institute, The University of Chicago
    • Univ. of Chicago

  • T.F. Rosenbaum

    • The University of Chicago
    • James Frank Institute, The University of Chicago
    • Univ. of Chicago

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• Effect of pressure on the tetragonal distortion in TiH$_{2}$: a first-principles study

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 5:18 PM – March 18, 2009, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • D.J. Singh

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

  • Romeo De Coss

    • Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Cinvestav-Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
    • Department of Applied Physics, Cinvestav-Merida, A.P. 73 Cordemex 97310 Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
    • Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, CINVESTAV-M\'erida, A. P. 73 Cordemex, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
    • CINVESTAV

  • R. Quijano

    • Department of Applied Physics, Cinvestav-Merida, A.P. 73 Cordemex 97310 Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

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