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Special Issue on Oxide Ferroelectric Heterostructures: Domain Engineering in Thin Films and Superlattices and Multifunctionality
Submission Date: 2025-05-30

Guest editors:

Dr. Zijian Hong
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Email: hongzijian100@zju.edu.cn

Special issue information:

Oxide ferroelectric heterostructures are a fertile playground for emergent properties and multifunctionality, including but not limited to piezo-, pyro-, dielectric, electrocaloric, and electromagnetic properties. The oxide heterostructures, including thin films, multilayers, and superlattices, usually with a size of 1 nm to 1 um, show various polar domain structures that can be engineered with many external and internal boundary conditions. For instance, various topological phases can be obtained by manipulating the electric boundary conditions, size, and surface effect. Moreover, the domain patterns can be readily engineered with external stimuli, e.g., electric field, mechanical force, thermal activation, and optical pumping.

This special issue welcomes new research on domain engineering in ferroelectric heterostructures. Research topics of interest include 1) Ferroelectric topological structures; 2) Domain switching dynamics; 3) Phase-field simulations of polar structures; 4) Piezoelectric materials; 5) Strain engineering; 6) Multiferroic materials; 7) Advanced characterizations of polar structures. 

Manuscript submission information:

Submission Open Date: Oct 31, 2024
Submission Deadline: May 30, 2025

You are invited to submit your manuscript at any time before the submission deadline. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact the guest editors. Their contact information is listed above. 

The journal’s submission platform (Editorial Manager®) will be available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue soon. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript, and select the article type of “VSI: Domain Engineering in Ferroelectric Oxides" when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could be found on the Journal Homepage. 

All the submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Upon its editorial acceptance, your article will go into production immediately. It will be published in the latest regular issue, while be presented on the specific Special Issue webpage simultaneously. In regular issues, Special Issue articles will be clearly marked and branded.

Keywords:
Ferroelectrics; Domain Engineering; Oxide Heterostructures