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At the Smart Ferroic Materials Center, we strive to understand materials down to (literally!) the atomic limit. Discovering and controlling functional materials with reduced dimensions (2D, 1D, 0D) is key to increase our computing capabilities, enhance catalytic chemical reactions to improve the quality of the water that we drink, or develop new bio-compatible sensors and very targeted drug delivery systems.

Check out our latest work, and feel free to contact one of our faculty or apply for open positions below!

Recent publications

Superorders and terahertz acoustic modes in multiferroic BiFeO3/LaFeO3 superlattices
Applied Physics Reviews 11, 041415
R. Gu, R. Xu, F. Delodovici, P. Nandi, B. Xu, V. E. Gusev, B. Carcan, M. Khiari, G. Vaudel, V. Juvé, L. Bellaiche, C. Laulhe, N. Jaouen, M. C. Weber, P. Manuel, B. Dkhil, C. Paillard, L. Yedra, H. Bouyanfif, P. Ruello

Submillisecond Electric Field Sensing with an Individual Rare-Earth Doped Ferroelectric Nanocrystal
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 16, 60800
Athulya K. Muraleedharan, Jingye Zou, Maxime Vallet, Abdelali Zaki, Christine Bogicevic, Charles Paillard, Karen Perronet, François Treussart

Giant electro-optic and elasto-optic effects in ferroelectric NbOI2
Physical Review B 110, L100101
Zhenlong Zhang, Xuehan Di, Charles Paillard, Laurent Bellaiche, Zhijun Jiang

Ferroelectric Texture of Individual Barium Titanate Nanocrystals
ACS Nano 18, 18355
A. K. Muraleedharan,  K. Co,  M. Vallet,  A. Zaki,  F. Karolak,  C. Bogicevic,  K. Perronet,  B. Dkhil,  C. Paillard,  C. Fiorini-Debuisschert, F. Treussart

Oxygen tilt driven polar superorders in BiFeO3-based superlattices
Physical Review B 109, L220101
R. Xu, F. Delodovici, B. Dkhil, C. Paillard

Revealing the three-dimensional arrangement of polar topology in nanoparticles
Nature Communications 109, 184111
C. Jeong, J. Lee, H. Jo, J. Oh, H. Baik, K.-J. Go, J. Son, S.-Y. Choi, S. Prosandeev, L. Bellaiche, Y. Yang

Creating Ferroelectricity in Monoclinic (HfO2)1/(CeO2)1 Superlattices
Physical Review Letters 132, 256801
H. J. Zhao, Y. Fu, L. Yu, Y. Wang, Y. Yang, L. Bellaiche, Y. Ma