All articles tagged with #ferroelectricity
Scientists have discovered that stressed ice can generate electricity through flexoelectric and ferroelectric properties, revealing new insights into its electromechanical behavior and potential natural phenomena like thunderstorms, challenging previous understanding of ice's passive nature.
Researchers have discovered a spontaneous toroidal polar topology in the helielectric nematic state, a ferroelectric liquid-matter phase with polarized helices. This topology is generated through a flexoelectric effect, leading to the formation of previously unknown polar topological structures. The findings could pave the way for new polar topologies and the development of switchable ferroelectric-liquid-matter optoelectronic devices.