Surface morphology of ferroelectric domains in BaTiO3 single crystals: An atomic force microscope study

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 36, Issue 9 A, 1997, Pages 5566-5569

  Balakumar, Subramanian ^a,c   Xu, Jian Bin ^a   Ma, Jian Xing ^a   Ganesamoorthy, Sarveswaran ^b   Wilson, Ian Howard ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

90 laminars; Atomic force microscope; BaTiO3 single crystals; Ferroelectrics; Microdomains

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BARIUM TITANATE; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

FERROELECTRIC DOMAIN STRUCTURE; MICRODOMAIN FORMATION;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0031223439     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.36.5566     Document Type: Article

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