U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research: Domain Pattern Formation in Epitaxial Ferroelectric Films

外延薄膜铁电材料在当前和新兴的微电子技术中具有广泛的应用前景，包括静态随机存取存储器、高介电常数电容器、热释电探测器、光学倍频器和光波导。提出的研究重点是对铁电薄膜中可实现的平衡结构和亚稳态结构的理论理解和实验验证。德累斯顿工业大学的沃尔夫冈·庞佩的合作得益于PI基于实验的方法和Pompe基于理论的方法。

Epitaxial thin film ferroelectrics have potential application in a wide range of current and emerging microelectronic technologies, including static random access memories, high dielectric constant capacitors, pyroelectric detectors, and optical frequency doublers and waveguides. The proposed research focuses on the theoretical understanding and experimental verification of equilibrium and metastable structures realizable in ferroelectric thin films. The collaboration between Wolfgang Pompe of the Technical University of Dresden benefits from the experimentally-based approach of the PI and the theoretically- based approach of Pompe.