Double-Bilayer polar nanoregions and Mn antisites in (Ca, Sr)3Mn2O7

oleh: Leixin Miao, Kishwar-E Hasin, Parivash Moradifar, Debangshu Mukherjee, Ke Wang, Sang-Wook Cheong, Elizabeth A. Nowadnick, Nasim Alem

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-08-01

Deskripsi

The competition between the polar and nonpolar phase in the prototypical hybrid improper ferroelectric crystal Ca3Mn2O7 leads to exotic properties. Here, the authors directly imaged the crystal at atomic resolution to understand its nanostructure and discovered the double bilayer polar nanoregion.