Topological states in ferroelectric nanorods tuned by the surface tension
Abstract Surface tension phenomena acquire significance at the nanoscale due to the pivotal influence of surfaces on properties of confined nanosystems. Yet, surface tension is often omitted when addressing the properties of nanostructured solid materials. Here, we reveal the impact of surface tensi...
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| author | Franco Di Rino Léo Boron Maksim A. Pavlenko Iurii A. Tikhonov Anna G. Razumnaya Marcelo Sepliarsky Anaïs Sené Igor A. Lukyanchuk Svitlana Kondovych |
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| description | Abstract Surface tension phenomena acquire significance at the nanoscale due to the pivotal influence of surfaces on properties of confined nanosystems. Yet, surface tension is often omitted when addressing the properties of nanostructured solid materials. Here, we reveal the impact of surface tension on polarization states in ferroelectric nanorods, demonstrating the surface-tension-tailored occurrence of distinct vortex and uniform phases with different spatial topologies. We study how the emergence of these states is tuned by temperature and geometry of the system and provide the radius-temperature phase diagram in exemplary lead titanate ferroelectric nanorods. The discovered surface tension effects allow for the deliberate design and tuning of topological phases in ferroelectric nanorods for their further implementation into nanoelectronic devices and multilevel logic memory units in neuromorphic computing circuits. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4d588d5d77d64a25985aa1c0b40f4cd62025-08-20T02:10:23ZengNature PortfolioCommunications Materials2662-44432025-03-016111010.1038/s43246-025-00774-7Topological states in ferroelectric nanorods tuned by the surface tensionFranco Di Rino0Léo Boron1Maksim A. Pavlenko2Iurii A. Tikhonov3Anna G. Razumnaya4Marcelo Sepliarsky5Anaïs Sené6Igor A. Lukyanchuk7Svitlana Kondovych8Instituto de Fisica Rosario, CONICET-Universidad Nacional de RosarioLaboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Picardie Jules VerneLaboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Picardie Jules VerneLaboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Picardie Jules VerneJozef Stefan InstituteInstituto de Fisica Rosario, CONICET-Universidad Nacional de RosarioLaboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Picardie Jules VerneLaboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Picardie Jules VerneInstitute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research DresdenAbstract Surface tension phenomena acquire significance at the nanoscale due to the pivotal influence of surfaces on properties of confined nanosystems. Yet, surface tension is often omitted when addressing the properties of nanostructured solid materials. Here, we reveal the impact of surface tension on polarization states in ferroelectric nanorods, demonstrating the surface-tension-tailored occurrence of distinct vortex and uniform phases with different spatial topologies. We study how the emergence of these states is tuned by temperature and geometry of the system and provide the radius-temperature phase diagram in exemplary lead titanate ferroelectric nanorods. The discovered surface tension effects allow for the deliberate design and tuning of topological phases in ferroelectric nanorods for their further implementation into nanoelectronic devices and multilevel logic memory units in neuromorphic computing circuits.https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-025-00774-7 |
| spellingShingle | Franco Di Rino Léo Boron Maksim A. Pavlenko Iurii A. Tikhonov Anna G. Razumnaya Marcelo Sepliarsky Anaïs Sené Igor A. Lukyanchuk Svitlana Kondovych Topological states in ferroelectric nanorods tuned by the surface tension Communications Materials |
| title | Topological states in ferroelectric nanorods tuned by the surface tension |
| title_full | Topological states in ferroelectric nanorods tuned by the surface tension |
| title_fullStr | Topological states in ferroelectric nanorods tuned by the surface tension |
| title_full_unstemmed | Topological states in ferroelectric nanorods tuned by the surface tension |
| title_short | Topological states in ferroelectric nanorods tuned by the surface tension |
| title_sort | topological states in ferroelectric nanorods tuned by the surface tension |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-025-00774-7 |
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