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90
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1994 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Earth Sciences

Overview

Ekhard K. H. Salje is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Materials Science and Engineering, with notable focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biomedical Engineering, Geophysics, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's principal topics of work include:

  • Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials
  • Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies
  • Multiferroics and related materials
  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis

Salje has extensively published in several frequent venues, demonstrating consistent contributions to the field. These include:

  • Physical Review B
  • Applied Physics Letters
  • Journal of Applied Physics
  • APL Materials
  • Physical Review Research

Their recent published papers showcase research at the intersection of ferroelectricity and ferroelasticity, domain-wall dynamics, and acoustic emissions in materials science. Key papers include:

  • Domain-wall engineering and topological defects in ferroelectric and ferroelastic materials, 2020, Nature Reviews Physics
  • Avalanche criticality during ferroelectric/ferroelastic switching, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The duration-energy-size enigma for acoustic emission, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Avalanches from charged domain wall motion in BaTiO3 during ferroelectric switching, 2020, APL Materials
  • Domain Dynamics in Quantum-Paraelectric SrTiO3, 2020, Physical Review Letters

Frequent collaborators in their research include Xiangdong Ding, Jun Sun, Boyuan Gou, Michael A. Carpenter, and Guillaume F. Nataf.

Among the honors received by Salje are fellowship in the Royal Society of the United Kingdom awarded in 1996 and membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1994, recognizing their contributions within Earth Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Phase transitions in ferroelastic and co-elastic crystals

    Ekhard K. H. Salje

  • Radiation effects in crystalline ceramics for the immobilization of high-level nuclear waste and plutonium

    W. J. Weber;R. C. Ewing;C. R. A. Catlow;T. Diaz de la Rubia

  • Domain wall conductivity in La-doped BiFeO3

    Jan Seidel;Jan Seidel;Petro Maksymovych;Y Batra;A Katan

  • Sheet superconductivity in twin walls: experimental evidence of

    Alison Aird;Ekhard K H Salje

  • Elastic anomalies in minerals due to structural phase transitions

    Michael A. Carpenter;Ekhard K. H. Salje

  • Domain-wall engineering and topological defects in ferroelectric and ferroelastic materials

    G. F. Nataf;Mael Guennou;J. M. Gregg;D. Meier

  • Physical properties and phase transitions in WO3

    E. Salje;K. Viswanathan

  • The orthorhombic phase of WO3

    E. Salje

  • Direct Observation of Ferrielectricity at Ferroelastic Domain Boundaries in CaTiO3 by Electron Microscopy

    Sandra Van Aert;Stuart Turner;Rémi Delville;Dominique Schryvers

  • Transformation processes in LaAlO3: neutron diffraction, dielectric, thermal, optical and Raman studies

    S. A. Hayward;F. D. Morrison;S. A. T. Redfern;E. K. H. Salje

  • Statistical Similarity between the Compression of a Porous Material and Earthquakes

    Jordi Baró;Álvaro Corral;Xavier Illa;Antoni Planes

  • Order-parameter saturation and low-temperature extension of Landau theory

    E. K. H. Salje;B. Wruck;H. Thomas

  • The crystal structure of triclinic WO3

    R. Diehl;G. Brandt;E. Salje

  • Metamictization of zircon: Raman spectroscopic study

    Ming Zhang;Ekhard K H Salje;Ian Farnan;Ann Graeme-Barber

  • Crackling Noise in Disordered Materials

    Ekhard K.H. Salje;Karin A. Dahmen

  • Domains within domains and walls within walls: evidence for polar domains in cryogenic SrTiO3.

    Ekhard Salje;Oktay Aktas;Michael Carpenter;VV Laguta

  • Lattice dynamics of WO3

    E. Salje

  • Ferrielectric twin walls in CaTiO3.

    Liliana Goncalves-Ferreira;Simon A. T. Redfern;Emilio Artacho;Ekhard K. H. Salje

  • Is "metamictization" of zircon a phase transition?

    E. K. H. Salje;J. Chrosch;R. C. Ewing

  • Domain boundary engineering

    Ekhard Salje;Huali Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Carpenter
Michael A. Carpenter University of Cambridge
Xiangdong Ding
Xiangdong Ding Xi'an Jiaotong University
Simon A. T. Redfern
Simon A. T. Redfern Nanyang Technological University
Martin T. Dove
Martin T. Dove Sichuan University
Antoni Planes
Antoni Planes University of Barcelona
Jun Sun
Jun Sun Xi'an Jiaotong University
Rodney C. Ewing
Rodney C. Ewing Stanford University
Volker Heine
Volker Heine University of Cambridge
James F. Scott
James F. Scott University of St Andrews
Andrew Putnis
Andrew Putnis Curtin University

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