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Overview

Gustau Catalan is affiliated with the Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering with a notable focus on several subfields including Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's work concentrates on several key topics within materials research. These topics include Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials, Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies, Multiferroics and related materials, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides, Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography, and Perovskite Materials and Applications.

Gustau Catalan has contributed to a number of recent papers across diverse high-impact venues. Selected papers include:

  • "Photoflexoelectric effect in halide perovskites," 2020, published in Nature Materials
  • "Origin of large negative electrocaloric effect in antiferroelectric PbZrO3," 2021, published in Physical Review B
  • "Temperature-independent giant dielectric response in transitional BaTiO3 thin films," 2020, published in Applied Physics Reviews
  • "Investigation of The Cellular Response to Bone Fractures: Evidence for Flexoelectricity," 2020, published in Scientific Reports
  • "Flexophotovoltaic Effect and Above-Band-Gap Photovoltage Induced by Strain Gradients in Halide Perovskites," 2024, published in Physical Review Letters

The scholar's frequent co-authors include Neus Domingo, José Manuel Caicedo, José Santiso, David Pesquera, and Krystian Roleder.

Gustau Catalan regularly publishes in various scientific venues, with multiple papers appearing in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Advanced Electronic Materials, Nature Materials, Physical Review B, and Physical Review Letters.

Best Publications

  • Physics and Applications of Bismuth Ferrite

    Gustau Catalan;James F. Scott

  • Conduction at domain walls in oxide multiferroics

    J. Seidel;L. W. Martin;L. W. Martin;Q. He;Q. Zhan

  • Domain wall nanoelectronics

    Gustau Catalán;J. Seidel;J. Seidel;J. Seidel;Ramamoorthy Ramesh;Ramamoorthy Ramesh;James F. Scott

  • Flexoelectric Effect in Solids

    Pavlo Zubko;Gustau Catalan;Alexander K. Tagantsev

  • Magnetocapacitance without magnetoelectric coupling

    G. Catalan

  • Magnetodielectric effect without multiferroic coupling

    G. Catalan

  • Mechanical Writing of Ferroelectric Polarization

    Haidong Lu;C.-W. Bark;D. Esque de los Ojos;J. Alcala

  • Strain-gradient-induced polarization in SrTiO3 single crystals.

    P. Zubko;G. Catalan;A. Buckley;P. R. L. Welche

  • βphase andγ−βmetal-insulator transition in multiferroicBiFeO3

    R. Palai;R. S. Katiyar;H. Schmid;P. Tissot

  • Flexoelectric rotation of polarization in ferroelectric thin films

    G. Catalan;A. Lubk;A. H. G. Vlooswijk;E. Snoeck

  • β phase and γ-β metal-insulator transition in multiferroic BiFeO3

    R. Palai;R. Katiyar;Hans Schmid;Paul Tissot

  • Progress in perovskite nickelate research

    G. Catalan

  • A flexoelectric microelectromechanical system on silicon

    Umesh Kumar Bhaskar;Nirupam Banerjee;Amir Abdollahi;Zhe Wang

  • Fractal Dimension and Size Scaling of Domains in Thin Films of Multiferroic BiFeO 3

    G. Catalan;H. Béa;S. Fusil;M. Bibes

  • The effect of flexoelectricity on the dielectric properties of inhomogeneously strained ferroelectric thin films

    G Catalan;LJ Sinnamon;JM Gregg

  • Electric‐Field Control of the Metal‐Insulator Transition in Ultrathin NdNiO3 Films

    Raoul Scherwitzl;Pavlo Zubko;I. Gutierrez Lezama;Shimpei Ono;Shimpei Ono

  • Enhanced flexoelectric-like response in oxide semiconductors

    Jackeline Narvaez;Fabian Vasquez-Sancho;Fabian Vasquez-Sancho;Gustau Catalan;Gustau Catalan

  • Strain gradients in epitaxial ferroelectrics

    G Catalan;Beatriz Noheda;J McAneney;LJ Sinnamon

  • Relaxor features in ferroelectric superlattices: A Maxwell–Wagner approach

    G. Catalan;D. O’Neill;R. M. Bowman;J. M. Gregg

  • Domains in Ferroelectric Nanodots

    A. Schilling;D. Byrne;G. Catalan;Kyle G. Webber

Frequent Co-Authors

James F. Scott
James F. Scott University of St Andrews
J. M. Gregg
J. M. Gregg Queen's University Belfast
Beatriz Noheda
Beatriz Noheda University of Groningen
Jordi Sort
Jordi Sort Autonomous University of Barcelona
Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Ramamoorthy Ramesh Rice University
Simon A. T. Redfern
Simon A. T. Redfern Nanyang Technological University
Alexei Gruverman
Alexei Gruverman University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Amador Pérez-Tomás
Amador Pérez-Tomás Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona
Ying-Hao Chu
Ying-Hao Chu National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Chung Wung Bark
Chung Wung Bark Gachon University

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