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2022

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Materials Science

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Citations
23990
World Ranking
2175
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93

Physics

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Citations
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  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Marin Alexe is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their research primarily focuses on materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, as well as electrical and electronic engineering.

Their work covers specialized topics including ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, multiferroics and related materials, and the electronic and structural properties of oxides. Further areas of study include ferroelectric and negative capacitance devices, magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials, advanced memory and neural computing, and perovskite materials and applications.

Marin Alexe's publications have appeared frequently in the following venues:

  • Advanced Electronic Materials
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Advanced Materials
  • Nature Communications
  • Physical Review B

Frequent collaborators include Ana M. Sánchez, Richard Beanland, Ming-Min Yang, Samuel D. Seddon, and Zheng-Dong Luo.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Marin Alexe include:

  • "Piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects induced by interface polar symmetry," 2020, Nature
  • "Emerging Opportunities for 2D Semiconductor/Ferroelectric Transistor-Structure Devices," 2021, Advanced Materials
  • "Anisotropic Ion Migration and Electronic Conduction in van der Waals Ferroelectric CuInP2S6," 2021, Nano Letters
  • "Dual-Ferroelectric-Coupling-Engineered Two-Dimensional Transistors for Multifunctional In-Memory Computing," 2022, ACS Nano
  • "Bond engineering of molecular ferroelectrics renders soft and high-performance piezoelectric energy harvesting materials," 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Role of domain walls in the abnormal photovoltaic effect in BiFeO 3

    Akash Bhatnagar;Ayan Roy Chaudhuri;Young Heon Kim;Dietrich Hesse

  • Atomic-scale study of electric dipoles near charged and uncharged domain walls in ferroelectric films

    Chun-Lin Jia;Shao-Bo Mi;Knut Urban;Ionela Vrejoiu

  • Reversible electrical switching of spin polarization in multiferroic tunnel junctions.

    D. Pantel;S. Goetze;D. Hesse;M. Alexe

  • Direct Observation of Continuous Electric Dipole Rotation in Flux-Closure Domains in Ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3

    Chun-Lin Jia;Knut W. Urban;Marin Alexe;Dietrich Hesse

  • Tip-enhanced photovoltaic effects in bismuth ferrite

    Marin Alexe;Dietrich Hesse

  • Impact of misfit dislocations on the polarization instability of epitaxial nanostructured ferroelectric perovskites.

    Ming-Wen Chu;Izabela Szafraniak;Izabela Szafraniak;Roland Scholz;Catalin Harnagea;Catalin Harnagea

  • Flexo-photovoltaic effect

    Ming-Min Yang;Dong Jik Kim;Marin Alexe

  • Photovoltaics with Ferroelectrics: Current Status and Beyond

    Charles Paillard;Xiaofei Bai;Ingrid C. Infante;Ingrid C. Infante;Maël Guennou

  • Nanoshell tubes of ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate and barium titanate

    Yun Luo;Izabela Szafraniak;Nikolai D. Zakharov;Valanoor Nagarajan

  • NANO-phase SBT-family ferroelectric memories

    J. F. Scott;M. Alexe;N. D. Zakharov;A. Pignolet

  • Piezoresponse force microscopy and nanoferroic phenomena.

    Alexei Gruverman;Marin Alexe;Dennis Meier

  • Metal-ferroelectric-metal heterostructures with Schottky contacts. I. Influence of the ferroelectric properties

    L. Pintilie;M. Alexe

  • Ferroelectric polarization-leakage current relation in high quality epitaxial Pb ( Zr , Ti ) O 3 films

    L. Pintilie;I. Vrejoiu;D. Hesse;G. LeRhun

  • Direct imaging of the spatial and energy distribution of nucleation centres in ferroelectric materials.

    Stephen Jesse;Brian J. Rodriguez;Samrat Choudhury;Arthur P. Baddorf

  • Structural and optical characteristics of bismuth oxide thin films

    L. Leontie;M. Caraman;M. Alexe;C. Harnagea

  • Nanoscale characterisation of ferroelectric materials : scanning probe microscopy approach

    M. Alexe;A. Gruverman

  • Individually addressable epitaxial ferroelectric nanocapacitor arrays with near Tb inch −2 density

    Woo Lee;Woo Lee;Hee Han;Andriy Lotnyk;Markus Andreas Schubert

  • Intrinsic Ferroelectric Properties of Strained Tetragonal PbZr0.2Ti0.8O3 Obtained on Layer-by-Layer Grown, Defect-Free Single-Crystalline Films**

    I. Vrejoiu;G. Le Rhun;L. Pintilie;D. Hesse

  • Nanoscale Characterisation of Ferroelectric Materials

    Marin Alexe;Alexei Gruverman

  • Artificial Optoelectronic Synapses Based on Ferroelectric Field-Effect Enabled 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Memristive Transistors

    Zheng-Dong Luo;Xue Xia;Ming-Min Yang;Neil R Wilson

  • A photoferroelectric material is more than the sum of its parts.

    Jens Kreisel;Marin Alexe;Pam A. Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

Dietrich Hesse
Dietrich Hesse Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
Ulrich Gösele
Ulrich Gösele Max Planck Society
Yunseok Kim
Yunseok Kim Sungkyunkwan University
Catalin Harnagea
Catalin Harnagea Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Roland Scholz
Roland Scholz Max Planck Society
Thomas Elsaesser
Thomas Elsaesser Max Planck Society
Brian J. Rodriguez
Brian J. Rodriguez University College Dublin
Alexei Gruverman
Alexei Gruverman University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Kornelius Nielsch
Kornelius Nielsch Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research
Sergei V. Kalinin
Sergei V. Kalinin University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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