LILIENBLUM, Martin; LOTTERMOSER, Thomas; MANZ, Sebastian; SELBACH, Sverre M.; CANO, Andres; FIEBIG, Manfred

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LILIENBLUM, Martin
Department of Materials [ETH Zürich] [D-MATL]

LOTTERMOSER, Thomas
Department of Materials [ETH Zürich] [D-MATL]

MANZ, Sebastian
Department of Materials [ETH Zürich] [D-MATL]

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Nature Physics. 2015, vol. 11, n° 12, p. 1070-1073

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Since their discovery in 1963 the hexagonal manganites have consolidated their role as exotic ferroelectrics with astonishingfunctionalities. Their introduction as room-temperature device ferroelectrics was followed by observations of giantflexoelectricity, multiferroicity with magnetoelectric domain and domain-wall coupling, protected vortex domain structures,topological domain-scaling behaviour and domain walls with tunable conductance and magnetism. Even after half a century,however, the emergence of the ferroelectric state has remained the subject of fierce debate.We resolve the interplay of electricpolarization, topological trimerization and temperature by direct access to the polarization for temperatures up to 1,400 K.Nonlinear optical experiments and piezoresponse force microscopy, complemented by Monte Carlo simulations, reveal asingle phase transition with ferroelectricity determined by topology rather than electrostatics. Fundamental properties ofthe hexagonal manganites, including an explanation for the two-phase-transition controversy as a finite-size scaling eect,are derived from this and highlight why improper ferroelectrics are an inherent source of novel functionalities.< Réduire

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