The P and U pulses in the conventional PUND measurement are not identical because of the interplay between ferroelectric switching current and the measurement circuit components. This circuit effect can lead to a shift in polarization transients and misinterpreted physics in the switching kinetics.
Details of the work can be found here:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05328
– Posted 4/8/2026
When growing GeO2 crystals, a 1.5% Mo variation in the Li2CO3-MoO3 flux solution can make the difference between a seed that maintains its (110) faceting and a polycrystalline or (111) faceted growth!
Details of the work can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.03795
– Posted 4/7/2026
This work introduces a compact model – dynamic-field-driven nucleation and growth (DFNG)
model – that provides accurate fit and simulation to any materials and waveforms. It also
motivates domain-growth-limited switching in HZO, contrary to the nucleation-limited switching
(NLS) mechanism.
Details of the work can be found here:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02957
– Posted 2/4/2026
Epitaxially stabilized FeGa has high values of magnetostriction, which should then lead to an increase in the Gilbert damping parameter. However, our samples show decreasing Gilbert damping as the magnetostriction increases, which was unexpected.
Details of the work can be found here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14143
– Posted 1/20/2026
How to write a publication abstract with meme annotations. This structure should be used for all academic publications.
– Posted 1/3/2026
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The core idea of the work that inspired this meme is the idea of using disorder as a design
parameter. Here the disorder was tuned to modulate the transport relaxation in a dielectric and
use that relaxation for reservoir computing.
Details of the work can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-024-01169-1
Posted 1/3/2026
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This work demonstrated that the use of assumed ideal materials may still have a background signal in a measurement. In this case Pt is assumed trivial in spin-Seebeck measurements, yet its Nernst coefficient was missing from the literature and hopelessly buried under parasitics in local measurements.
Details of the work can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0180049
– Posted 1/3/2026
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This work demonstrated the failure mode of an island ferroelectric capacitor of 10 nm thick HZO from endurance testing. The fabricated island capacitors fail catastrophically and early due to the irreversible formation of a conductive filament.
Details of the work can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0248765
– Posted 1/3/2026
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This work demonstrated that a capacitor geometry, intentional or unintentional, can lead to spurious quantification of the dielectric properties.
Details of the work can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0246657
– Posted 1/3/2026
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This work demonstrated a new material that is stable up to 1100 °C in air.
Details of the work can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01205-1
– Posted 1/2/2026
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