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Received — 25 July 2026 ⏭ Nature

Imaging of nanoscale polar textures in quantum paraelectric SrTiO<sub>3</sub>

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By: Yang Zhang · Suk Hyun Sung · Nishkarsh Agarwal · Maya Gates · Cong Li · Pu Yu · Robert Hovden · Ismail El Baggari
22 July 2026 at 01:00

Nature, Published online: 22 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10823-x

Cryo-STEM reveals that SrTiO3 forms periodic polar nanodomains below 105 K, but these fragment below 40 K, linking quantum paraelectricity to nanoscale polar ordering and disordering.
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