Research Topics 2010

Novel Tailor-Made Nanoferroelectric From Building Blocks

Dec 22, 2010

This research was conducted by
Minoru Osada and Takayoshi Sasaki

A novel nanoferroelectric, an artificial superlattice assembled from perovskite nanosheets, was successfully developed by a solution-based bottom-up nanotechnology.


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Fig. 1. An artificial superlattice assembled from perovskite nanosheets (A=Ca2Nb3O10, B=LaNb2O7). The success of growth of such well-controlled superlattices with a good interface quality enabled us to explore new properties of perovskite superlattices. By artificial structuring, the group found that the (LaNb2O7/Ca2Nb3O10) superlattice possesses a new form of interface coupling, which gives rise to ferroelectricity even at several nanometer thicknesses.

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