Brazil-Russia collaboration

01.12.2024 - 28.02.2025

Thissiana da Cunha Fernandes, a PhD student at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, recently completed a research internship at the Ural Center for Shared Use \\\\\\\"Modern Nanotechnologies\\\\\\\" of Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
The visit spanned from December 1, 2024, to February 28, 2025, under the joint supervision of José Antonio Eiras and Manuel Henrique Lente from the Brazilian side and Vladimir Ya. Shur and Andrei Ushakov from the Russian side.

The focus of the research program was the cutting-edge field of lead-free ferroelectrics, specifically the characterization and manipulation of domain structures in KNN-based single crystals. This work directly contributes to one of the most promising areas of modern ferroelectricity research.

The most significant outcome of this productive visit was the publication of a joint research paper entitled \\\\\\\"As-grown domain structure and local switching in [111]c-cut Cu-doped KNN single crystals\\\\\\\".