Changes in metallicity and electronic structure across the surface ferroelectric transition of ultrathin crystalline poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) copolymers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1328-1331

  Choi, Jaewu ^a   Dowben, P A ^a   Pebley, Shawn ^a   Bune, A V ^a   Ducharme, Stephen ^a   Fridkin, V M ^b   Palto, S P ^b   Petukhova, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; FERMI LEVEL; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILMS; MONOLAYERS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTOEMISSION; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

SURFACE FERROELECTRIC TRANSITION; TRIFLUOROETHYLENE; VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032498473     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.1328     Document Type: Article

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