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Ferroelectric tunnel junctions

Crossing the wall

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The electronic transport across a head-to-head ferroelectric domain wall reveals a signature of quantum tunnelling assisted by confined, quantum-well-like states.

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Figure 1: Resonant tunnelling across a ferroelectric domain wall.

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  1. Evgeny Y. Tsymbal is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA,

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  2. Julian P. Velev is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico 00931, USA,

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Tsymbal, E., Velev, J. Crossing the wall. Nature Nanotech 12, 614–615 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2017.60

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