Publications by Kaushik Vaideeswaran

Observation of Atomic-Scale Polar Vortex–Antivortex Pairs in Antiferroelectric PbZrO3 Thin Films

Topological polar structures, in analogy to spin vortices and skyrmions, have received tremendous attention for their fascinating prospects in future device applications. However, in the widely studied ferroelectric-based superlattices, the epitaxial heter ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

In Search of Ferroelectricity in Antiferroelectric Lead Zirconate

Kaushik Vaideeswaran

Since the prediction of antiferroelectricity and the subsequent discovery of PbZrO3, the description of antiferroelectric behaviour in materials has been constantly modified to account for the latest properties identified in antiferroelectric materials. Ad ...

EPFL2015

Moving antiphase boundaries using an external electric field

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Konstantin Shapovalov, Kaushik Vaideeswaran, Petr Yudin

Antiphase boundaries (APBs) are unique domain walls that may demonstrate switchable polarization in otherwise non-ferroelectric materials such as SrTiO3 and PbZrO3. The current study explores the possibility of displacing such domain walls at the nanoscale ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Lattice dynamics and antiferroelectricity in PbZrO3 tested by x-ray and Brillouin light scattering

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Kaushik Vaideeswaran

We report the results of a comprehensive study of the critical dynamics of the classical perovskite antiferroelectric PbZrO3. The combination of inelastic x-ray and diffuse x-ray scattering techniques and Brillouin light scattering was used. It is found th ...

American Physical Society2014

The origin of antiferroelectricity in PbZrO3

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Kaushik Vaideeswaran

Antiferroelectrics are essential ingredients for the widely applied piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials: the most common ferroelectric, lead zirconate titanate is an alloy of the ferroelectric lead titanate and the antiferroelectric lead zirconate. A ...

Nature Publishing Group2013