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Lifting the fog in ferroelectric thin-film synthesis

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Frustrated by reproducibility in electrical measurements on ferroelectric films, Lane Martin, Jon-Paul Maria and Darrell Schlom discuss tactics to reliably synthesize ‘good’ ferroelectric samples, especially in the search for superior materials and device heterostructures.

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  1. Departments of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Chemistry, and Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Lane W. Martin

  2. Rice Advanced Materials Institute, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Lane W. Martin

  3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA

    Jon-Paul Maria

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Darrell G. Schlom

  5. Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Darrell G. Schlom

  6. Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung, Berlin, Germany

    Darrell G. Schlom

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Martin, L.W., Maria, JP. & Schlom, D.G. Lifting the fog in ferroelectric thin-film synthesis. Nat. Mater. 23, 9–10 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01732-9

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