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Seeing ferroelectric phase transitions

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Real-time atomic-scale imaging reveals the presence of reversible transitions between ferroelectric and non-ferroelectric phases during electric stimuli, enabling the possibility for reliability improvement in ferroelectric materials compatible with complementary metal–oxide–semiconductors.

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Fig. 1: Wake-up, plateau and fatigue regimes during electric cycling in fluorite ferroelectrics.

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