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Science & ResearchAug 21, 2026

Symmetry-engineering ferroelectricity in silicon dioxides

It is a long-established rule for classical ferroelectricity that any ferroelectric crystal must adopt one of the 10 specific polar point groups.

It is a long-established rule for classical ferroelectricity that any ferroelectric crystal must adopt one of the 10 specific polar point groups. Here we predict a unique type of ferroelectricity that can be generated in some crystals belonging to nonpolar noncentrosymmetric…

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