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

外延薄膜铁电体在很宽的电流范围内具有潜在的应用前景， 包括静态随机存取存储器在内的新兴微电子技术， 介电常数电容器、热释电检测器和光学倍频器， 波导管. 建议的研究侧重于理论理解和 铁电体中可实现的平衡和亚稳结构的实验验证 薄膜 德国技术大学的Wolfgang Pompe与 德累斯顿受益于PI的实验方法和Pompe的理论方法。

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.