Journal
FERROELECTRICS
Volume 503, Issue 1, Pages 117-132Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00150193.2016.1236611
Keywords
Domains; multiferroics; switching
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This review paper begins with a discussion of switching kinetics for ferroelectrics, demonstrating experimentally that nucleation can be the more important step, rather than domain wall forward-growth or sidways velocities. It then presents a discussion of nonequilibrium domain patterns and kinetics that violate the Kittel Law for ferroelastics. This produces parabolic walls and thicknesses incompatible with earlier models by Landau and Lifshitz and by Roitburd, which are analogous to hydrodynamic instabilities better known in smectic liquid crystals, such as the Helfrich-Huraul instability. It concludes with a discussion of some subtleties in magnetoelectric multiferroics.
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