Creating building blocks for atomic-scale electronics

Project Information

ATRONICS

Grant agreement ID: 863691

DOI

10.3030/863691

EC signature date 13 February 2020

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 845 338,00

EU contribution

€ 1 845 338,00

Coordinated by

NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU
Norway

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (32)

Unveiling Alternating Current Electronic Properties at Ferroelectric Domain Walls

Author(s): Jan Schultheiß, Tadej Rojac, Dennis Meier
Published in: Advanced Electronic Materials, 2021, ISSN 2199-160X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/aelm.202100996

Post-synthesis tuning of dielectric constant via ferroelectric domain wall engineering

Author(s): Lima Zhou, Lukas Puntigam, Peter Lunkenheimer, Edith Bourret, Zewu Yan, István Kézsmárki, Dennis Meier, Stephan Krohns, Jan Schultheiß, Donald M. Evans
Published in: Matter, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 2996-3006, ISSN 2590-2385
Publisher: CellPress
DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.04.024

Ferroelectric Domain Engineering Using Structural Defect Ordering

Author(s): Elzbieta Gradauskaite; Kasper Hunnestad; Dennis Meier; Morgan Trassin; Quintin N. Meier
Published in: Chemistry of Materials, 34 (14), Issue 4, 2022, ISSN 0897-4756
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000558395

Magnetoelectric coupling at the domain level in polycrystalline hexagonal ErMnO3

Author(s): J. Schultheiß, L. Puntigam, M. Winkler, S. Krohns, D. Meier, H. Das, D. M. Evans, I. Kézsmárki
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 124, 2024, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0209216

Fundamental Aspects of Conduction in Charged ErMnO₃ Domain Walls

Author(s): James McCartan, Patrick W. Turner, James P. V. McConville, Kristina Holsgrove, Charlotte Cochard, Amit Kumar, Raymond G. P. McQuaid, Dennis Meier, J. Marty Gregg
Published in: Advanced Electronic Materials, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2199-160X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/aelm.202400091

Challenges and insights in growing epitaxial FeSn thin films on GaAs(111) substrate using molecular beam epitaxy

Author(s): P. Chatterjee, M. Nord, J. He, D. Meier, C. Brüne
Published in: Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A, Issue 43, 2025, ISSN 0734-2101
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1116/6.0004238

Coexistence of multi-scale domains in ferroelectric polycrystals with non-uniform grain-size distributions

Author(s): Katharina Wolk, Ruben S. Dragland, Elvia Chavez Panduro, Michael E. Hjelmstad, Leonie Richarz, Zewu Yan, Edith Bourret, Kasper A. Hunnestad, Christian Tzschaschel, Jan Schultheiß, Dennis Meier
Published in: Matter, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 3097-3106, ISSN 2590-2385
Publisher: CellPress
DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.04.041

Characterization of ferroelectric domain walls by scanning electron microscopy

Author(s): K. A. Hunnestad; Erik Dobloug Roede; A. T. J. van Helvoort; Dennis Meier
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0029284

Charged Ferroelectric Domain Walls for Deterministic ac Signal Control at the Nanoscale

Author(s): Jan Schultheiß, Erik Lysne, Lukas Puntigam, Jakob Schaab, Edith Bourret, Zewu Yan, Stephan Krohns, and Dennis Meier
Published in: Nano Letters, 2021, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03182

The Third Dimension of Ferroelectric Domain Walls

Author(s): Erik D. Roede; Konstantin Shapovalov; Thomas J. Moran; Aleksander B. Mosberg; Zewu Yan; Edith Bourret; Andres Cano; Bryan D. Huey; Antonius T. J. van Helvoort; Dennis Meier
Published in: Advanced Materials, 34 (36), Issue 3, 2022, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000563949

Ferroelectric domain walls for nanotechnology

Author(s): Dennis Meier and Sverre M. Selbach
Published in: Nature Reviews Materials, 2022, ISSN 2058-8437
Publisher: Nature Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41578-021-00375-z

Non‐Destructive Tomographic Nanoscale Imaging of Ferroelectric Domain Walls

Author(s): Jiali He, Manuel Zahn, Ivan N. Ushakov, Leonie Richarz, Ursula Ludacka, Erik D. Roede, Zewu Yan, Edith Bourret, István Kézsmárki, Gustau Catalan, Dennis Meier
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, Issue 34, 2024, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202314011

Moiré fringes in conductive atomic force microscopy

Author(s): L. Richarz, J. He, U. Ludacka, E. Bourret, Z. Yan, A. T. J. van Helvoort, and D. Meier
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 122, 2023, Page(s) 162903, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0145173

Insulating improper ferroelectric domain walls as robust barrier layer capacitors

Author(s): Lukas Puntigam, Jan Schultheiß, Ana Strinic, Zewu Yan, Edith Bourret, Markus Altthaler, István Kézsmárki, Donald M. Evans, Dennis Meier, and Stephan Krohns
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, 2021, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0038300

Quantitative Mapping of Chemical Defects at Charged Grain Boundaries in a Ferroelectric Oxide

Author(s): Kasper A. Hunnestad, Jan Schultheiß, Anders C. Mathisen, Ivan N. Ushakov, Constantinos Hatzoglou, Antonius T. J. van Helvoort, Dennis Meier
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 35, 2023, Page(s) 2302543, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202302543

Correlating laser energy with compositional and atomic-level information of oxides in atom probe tomography

Author(s): K.A. Hunnestad, C. Hatzoglou, F. Vurpillot, I.-E. Nylund, Z. Yan, E. Bourret, A.T.J. van Helvoort, D. Meier
Published in: Materials Characterization, Issue 203, 2023, Page(s) 113085, ISSN 1044-5803
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2023.113085

Imaging and structure analysis of ferroelectric domains, domain walls, and vortices by scanning electron diffraction

Author(s): Ursula Ludacka, Jiali He, Shuyu Qin, Manuel Zahn, Emil Frang Christiansen, Kasper A. Hunnestad, Xinqiao Zhang, Zewu Yan, Edith Bourret, István Kézsmárki, Antonius T. J. van Helvoort, Joshua Agar, Dennis Meier
Published in: npj Computational Materials, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2057-3960
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41524-024-01265-y

AFM‐Based Functional Tomography – To Mill or Not to Mill, that is the Question!

Author(s): Niyorjyoti Sharma, Kristina M. Holsgrove, James Dalzell, Conor J. McCluskey, Jilai He, Dennis Meier, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, Brian J. Rodriguez, Raymond G.P. McQuaid, J. Marty Gregg, Amit Kumar
Published in: Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2025, ISSN 2196-7350
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/admi.202400813

Mobile intrinsic point defects for conductive neutral domain walls in LiNbO₃

Author(s): Kristoffer Eggestad, Benjamin A. D. Williamson, Dennis Meier, Sverre M. Selbach
Published in: Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 17099-17107, ISSN 2050-7534
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4tc02856b

Pressure Control of Nonferroelastic Ferroelectric Domains in ErMnO₃

Author(s): Olav W. Sandvik; Aaron Merlin Müller; Håkon W. Ånes; Manuel Zahn; Jiali He; Manfred Fiebig; Thomas Lottermoser; Tadej Rojac; Dennis Meier; Jan Schultheiß
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 23, 2023, Page(s) 6994-7000, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c01638

Reversible long-range domain wall motion in an improper ferroelectric

Author(s): Manuel Zahn, Aaron Merlin Müller, Kyle P. Kelley, Sabine Neumayer, Sergei V. Kalinin, István Kézsmarki, Manfred Fiebig, Thomas Lottermoser, Neus Domingo, Dennis Meier, Jan Schultheiß
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57062-8

Controlling electronic properties of hexagonal manganites through aliovalent doping and thermoatmospheric history

Author(s): Didrik R. Småbråten, Frida H. Danmo, Nikolai H. Gaukås, Sathya P. Singh, Nikola Kanas, Dennis Meier, Kjell Wiik, Mari-Ann Einarsrud, Sverre M. Selbach
Published in: Physical Review Materials, Issue 9, 2025, ISSN 2475-9953
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevmaterials.9.024408

Confinement‐Driven Inverse Domain Scaling in Polycrystalline ErMnO ₃

Author(s): Jan Schultheiß; Fei Xue; Erik Roede; Håkon W. Ånes; Frida H. Danmo; Sverre M. Selbach; Long‐Qing Chen; Dennis Meier
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202203449

Magnetoelastic properties of multiferroic hexagonal ErMnO3

Author(s): C.M. Fernandez-Posada, C.R.S. Haines, D.M. Evans, Z. Yan, E. Bourret, D. Meier, and M.A. Carpenter
Published in: Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2022, ISSN 0304-8853
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2022.169277

Switching on Antiferroelectrics

Author(s): G. Catalan, A. Gruverman, J. Íñiguez-González, D. Meier, M. Trassin
Published in: arXiv, 2025, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.20423

Contact-free reversible switching of improper ferroelectric domains by electron and ion irradiation

Author(s): Erik Dobloug Roede; Aleksander B. Mosberg; Donald M. Evans; Edith Bourret; Zewu Yan; Antonius T. J. van Helvoort; Dennis Meier
Published in: APL Materials, Issue 9, 2021, Page(s) 021105, ISSN 2166-532X
Publisher: AIP
DOI: 10.1063/5.0038909

Atomic-scale 3D imaging of individual dopant atoms in an oxide semiconductor

Author(s): K. A. Hunnestad, C. Hatzoglou, Z. M. Khalid, P. E. Vullum, Z. Yan, E. Bourret, A. T. J. van Helvoort, S. M. Selbach, D. Meier
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 13, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32189-0

Introducing a Dynamic Reconstruction Methodology for Multilayered Structures in Atom Probe Tomography

Author(s): Constantinos Hatzoglou, Gérald Da Costa, Peter Wells, Xiaochen Ren, Brian P Geiser, David J Larson, Remi Demoulin, Kasper Hunnestad, Etienne Talbot, Baishakhi Mazumder, Dennis Meier, François Vurpillot
Published in: Microscopy and Microanalysis, Issue 29, 2023, Page(s) 1124–1136, ISSN 1435-8115
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/micmic/ozad054

Observation of Antiferroelectric Domain Walls in a Uniaxial Hyperferroelectric

Author(s): Michele Conroy, Didrik René Småbråten, Colin Ophus, Konstantin Shapovalov, Quentin M. Ramasse, Kasper Aas Hunnestad, Sverre M. Selbach, Ulrich Aschauer, Kalani Moore, J. Marty Gregg, Ursel Bangert, Massimiliano Stengel, Alexei Gruverman, Dennis Meier
Published in: Advanced Materials, 2024, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202405150

3D oxygen vacancy distribution and defect-property relations in an oxide heterostructure

Author(s): Kasper A. Hunnestad, Hena Das, Constantinos Hatzoglou, Megan Holtz, Charles M. Brooks, Antonius T. J. van Helvoort, David A. Muller, Darrell G. Schlom, Julia A. Mundy, Dennis Meier
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49437-0

Topological magnetic and ferroelectric systems for reservoir computing

Author(s): Karin Everschor-Sitte, Atreya Majumdar, Katharina Wolk, Dennis Meier
Published in: Nature Reviews Physics, Issue 6, 2024, Page(s) 455-462, ISSN 2522-5820
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s42254-024-00729-w

Application of a long short-term memory for deconvoluting conductance contributions at charged ferroelectric domain walls

Author(s): Theodor S. Holstad, Trygve M. Ræder, Donald M. Evans, Didirk R. Småbråten, Stephan Krohns, Jakob Schaab, Zewu Yan, Edith Bourret, Antonius T. J. van Helvoort, Tor Grande, Sverre M. Selbach, Joshua C. Agar, and Dennis Meier
Published in: npj Computational Materials, 2020, ISSN 2057-3960
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41524-020-00426-z

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Extrinsically controlled electronic behavior at improper ferroelectric domain walls

Author(s): Leonie Richarz
Published in: 2024
Publisher: NTNU

Electronic Property Engineering in a Ferroelectric Oxide: Nanostructuring and Advanced Characterization.

Author(s): He, Jiali
Published in: Issue 1, 2024
Publisher: NTNU

Non-peer reviewed articles (3)

Ferroelectric domain walls for environmental sensors

Author(s): L. Richarz, I. C. Skogvoll, E. Y. Tokle, K. A. Hunnestad, U. Ludacka, J. He, E. Bourret, Z. Yan, A.T.J. van Helvoort, J. Schultheiß, S. M. Selbach, D. Meier
Published in: arXiv, 2024, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.03691

Local doping of an oxide semiconductor by voltage-driven splitting of anti-Frenkel defects

Author(s): Jiali He, Ursula Ludacka, Kasper A. Hunnestad, Didrik R. Småbråten, Konstantin Shapovalov, Per Erik Vullum, Constantinos Hatzoglou, Donald M. Evans, Erik D. Roede, Zewu Yan, Edith Bourret, Sverre M. Selbach, David Gao, Jaakko Akola, Dennis Meier
Published in: arXiv, 2025, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.07947

Relation between rare-earth magnetism and the magnetocaloric effect in multiferroic hexagonal manganites

Author(s): R. Dragland, C. Salazar Mejía, I. Hansen, Y. Hamasaki, E. C. Panduro, Y. Ehara, T. Gottschall, D. Meier, J. Schultheiß
Published in: arXiv, 2024, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.08693