Session A10: Focus Session: Ferroelectrics I

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Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Matthew Dawber, Stonybrook University
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Monday, March 16, 2009
8:00AM - 8:36AM

A10.00001: First-principles modeling of closure domains in ferroelectric ultrathin films
Invited Speaker: Javier Junquera

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Monday, March 16, 2009
8:36AM - 8:48AM

A10.00002: Polarization Switching at the Intrinsic Coercive Field of PbTiO$_{3}$ by Changing Oxygen Partial Pressure
M. Highland , T.T. Fister , M.-I. Richard , D.D. Fong , J.A. Eastman , S.K. Streiffer , P.H. Fouss , G.B. Stephenson , Carol Thompson

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Monday, March 16, 2009
8:48AM - 9:00AM

A10.00003: Understanding the surface reconstruction during chemical switching of ultrathin PbTiO$_3$ films from density functional theory
Jun He , Brian Stephenson , Serge Nakhmanson

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Monday, March 16, 2009
9:00AM - 9:12AM

A10.00004: First-principles calculations of structural energetics of Pb-O divacancies in PbTiO$_3$ and their role in up-down asymmetry of thin films.
O. Paz , S. P. Beckman , D. Vanderbilt , K. M. Rabe

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Monday, March 16, 2009
9:12AM - 9:24AM

A10.00005: Study on the electro-optic effect in Pb(Zr,Ti)O$_{3}$ (001) film using spectroscopic ellipsometry
Tae Dong Kang , Xiao Bo , Vitaliy Avrutin , \"Umit \"Ozg\"ur , Hadis Morko\c{c} , Jun Woo Park , Ho Suk Lee , Hosun Lee , Xiaoyu Wang , David Smith

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Monday, March 16, 2009
9:24AM - 9:36AM

A10.00006: A first-principles study of enhancement of polarization with electric field in tetragonal PbTiO$_3$
Anindya Roy , Massimiliano Stengel , David Vanderbilt

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Monday, March 16, 2009
9:36AM - 9:48AM

A10.00007: Polarization reversal and backswitching kinetics in epitaxial ferroic thin films
Jianheng Li , Bruce Wessels

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Monday, March 16, 2009
9:48AM - 10:00AM

A10.00008: Thickness dependent ferroelectric properties of ultrathin BaTiO$_{3}$ thin films
D.A. Felker , H.W. Jang , C.B. Eom , M.S. Rzchowski

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Monday, March 16, 2009
10:00AM - 10:12AM

A10.00009: Temperature dependence of the dielectric properties of strained barium strontium titanate films for tunable microwave applications
Lisa Alldredge , Wontae Chang , Steven Kirchoefer , Jeffrey Pond

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Monday, March 16, 2009
10:12AM - 10:24AM

A10.00010: Density functional study of ferroelectric-electrode interfacial effects on the stability of ferroelectricity in thin-films
Wissam A. Al-Saidi , Alexie Kolpak , Ilya Grinberg , Andrew Rappe

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Monday, March 16, 2009
10:24AM - 10:36AM

A10.00011: Boundary conditions on ferroelectricity in ultrathin SrTiO$_3$ films on silicon
Alexie Kolpak , Fred Walker , James Reiner , Charles Ahn , Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

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Monday, March 16, 2009
10:36AM - 10:48AM

A10.00012: Strain Effect in the Problem of Critical Thickness for Ferroelectric Memory
A.M. Bratkovsky , A.P. Levanyuk

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Monday, March 16, 2009
10:48AM - 11:00AM

A10.00013: Unusual polarization patterns in flat epitaxial ferroelectric nanoparticles
Ivan Naumov , Alexandr Bratkovsky

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