New paper on origin of incipient ferroelectricity in PbTe published in Nature Communications

A new paper was published in Nature Communications in collaboration with SLAC/Stanford and ORNL. The study investigates the origin of incipient ferroelectricity in PbTe, using ultrafast x-ray scattering at the LCLS and SACLA free electron lasers, combined with density functional theory simulations.

M.P. Jiang et al., "The origin of incipient ferroelectricity in lead telluride", Nature Communications 7, 12291 (2016)

doi:10.1038/ncomms12291

The study was a collaboration with the groups of D. Reis and A. Lindenberg (Stanford/SLAC) and S. Fahy (Tyndall National Institute/ University College Cork).