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Nanoscale frictional imaging of ferroelectric domains
Seongwoo Cho, Hyeonbin Moon, Iaroslav Gaponenko, Eunnuri Cho, Céline Lichtensteiger, Ruben Skjelstad Dragland, Ji Hye Lee, Jan Schultheiß, Dennis Meier, Seunghwa Ryu, Seungbum Hong and Patrycja Paruch

Science advances 12 26, eaee0247 (2026)

Nanoscale control of electromechanical coupling transforms frictional information into a direct probe of ferroelectric polarization. Here, we show that an asymmetric friction response induced by high contact forces applied with a scanning probe microscopy tip enables spatially resolved…

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Superdomains and superdomain walls in ferroelectric thin films
Ludovica Tovaglieri, Patrycja Paruch, Jean-Marc Triscone and Céline Lichtensteiger

Journal of applied physics 139 15, 150701 (2026)

In ferroelectric thin films, the complex interplay between mechanical and electrostatic boundary conditions in reduced dimensionality allows for the formation of a wide variety of domain configurations with fascinating properties. Domains are regions of uniformly oriented polarization, separated by …

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Curvature‐Controlled Polarization in Adaptive Ferroelectric Membranes
Greta Segantini, Ludovica Tovaglieri, Chang-Jae Roh, Chih-Ying Hsu, Seongwoo Cho, Ralph Adam Yap Bulanadi, Petr Ondrejkovic, Pavel Marton, Jirka Hlinka, Stefano Gariglio, Duncan T.L. Alexander, Patrycja Paruch, Jean-Marc Triscone, Céline Lichtensteiger and Andrea Caviglia

Small, e06338 (2025)

This study explores the ferroelectric domain structure and mechanical properties of PbTiO 3 ‐based membranes, which develop a well‐ordered and crystallographic‐oriented ripple pattern upon release from their growth substrate. The ferrolectric domain structure of the PbTiO…

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Investigating domain structures and superdomains in ferroelectric PbTiO3 based heterostructures on DyScO3
Ludovica Tovaglieri, Marios Hadjimichael, P. Torruella, Chih-Ying Hsu, Lukas Alexander Korosec, D. T. L. Alexander, Patrycja Paruch, Jean-Marc Triscone and Céline Lichtensteiger

APL materials 13 2, 021118 (2025)

This work focuses on the complex ferroelastic/ferroelectric domain structure in the prototypical ferroelectric PbTiO3 epitaxially strained on (110)o-oriented DyScO3 substrates, with a 22 nm-thick bottom SrRuO3 electrode. High quality epitaxial growth has been achieved from 7.2 nm (18 unit cells) up …

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Nanoscale electrostatic control in ferroelectric thin films through lattice chemistry
Ipek Efe, Alexander Vogel, William S Huxter, Elzbieta Gradauskaite, Iaroslav Gaponenko, Patrycja Paruch, Christian L Degen, Marta D Rossell, Manfred Fiebig and Morgan Trassin

Nature communications 16 1, 6131 (2025)

Nanoscale electrostatic control of oxide interfaces enables physical phenomena and exotic functionalities beyond the realm of the bulk material. In technologically-relevant ferroelectric thin films, the interface-mediated polarization control is usually exerted by engineering the depolarizing…

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Distance and relative humidity contributions to the atomic force microscopy off surface electrostatic response of soda lime glass
Iaroslav Gaponenko, Ryan Wagner, Akshay Deolia, Roger Proksch and Patrycja Paruch

Scientific reports 15 1, 14459 (2025)

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) has emerged as a tool of choice to probe ferroelectric materials through electrochemomechanical coupling at the nanoscale. However, this technique is not without its challenges, with artefacts related to electrostatic and topographical features presenting a…

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Behavior of Water Adsorbates on Ferroelectric Thin Films
Loïc Musy

Thèse, 149 (2024)

Cette thèse explore, à l’aide de la microscopie à force atomique (AFM), le comportement des charges de surface sur les ferroélectriques, et la manière dont l’eau réagit selon l’orientation de la polarisation. En complément des techniques AFM, des développements matériels (contrôleur…

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Exploring Ferroelectric Domain-Wall Dynamics through Power-Law Distributions via Scanning Probe Microscopy
Ralph Adam Yap Bulanadi

Thèse, 222 (2024)

We here leverage scanning probe microscopy, sensitive to both structural and functional properties of ferroelectric domains, in order to change, measure, and characterise the variety of transitions (and transition-like behaviours in the highly nonlinear dynamics accompanying polarisation reversal…

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Switchable tribology of ferroelectrics
Seongwoo Cho, Iaroslav Gaponenko, Kumara Cordero-Edwards, Jordi Barceló-Mercader, Irene Arias, Daeho Kim, Céline Lichtensteiger, Jiwon Yeom, Loïc Musy, Hyunji Kim, Seung Min Han, Gustau Catalan, Patrycja Paruch and Seungbum Hong

Nature communications 15 387 (2024)

Switchable tribological properties of ferroelectrics offer an alternative route to visualize and control ferroelectric domains. Here, we observe the switchable friction and wear behavior of ferroelectrics using a nanoscale scanning probe—down domains have lower friction coefficients and show…

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Interplay between Point and Extended Defects and Their Effects on Jerky Domain-Wall Motion in Ferroelectric Thin Films
Ralph Adam Yap Bulanadi, Rohini Kumara Cordero Eduards, Philippe Tueckmantel, Sahar Saremi, Giacomo Arturo Maria Morpurgo, Qi Zhang, Lane W Martin, Valanoor Nagarajan and Patrycja Paruch

Physical review letters 133 10, 106801 (2024)

Defects have a significant influence on the polarization and electromechanical properties of ferroelectric materials. Statistically, they can be seen as random pinning centers acting on an elastic manifold, slowing domain-wall propagation and raising the energy required to switch polarization. Here …

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Identifying and analyzing power-law scaling in two-dimensional image datasets
Ralph Adam Yap Bulanadi and Patrycja Paruch

Physical review. E 109 6, 064135 (2024)

Power-law distributions provide a general description of diverse natural phenomena in which events with a logarithmically increasing size occur with logarithmically decreasing probability. However, experimentally derived correlated two-dimensional information is often difficult to cleanly interpret …

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