Hybrid antiferroelectric–ferroelectric domain walls in noncollinear antipolar oxides (opens in new tab)

Antiferroelectrics are emerging as advanced functional materials with unique electric properties enabled by the antipolar arrangement of their electric dipoles. Additional functionalities and novel physical nanoscale phenomena are expected in systems with noncollinear antipolar dipole structures. Here we demonstrate how the onset of antiferroelectricity in K3[Nb3O6∣(BO3)2] drives noncollinear ordering of electric dipole moments, which leads to unusual hybridization of antiferroelectric and fe...