Nanoscale reconstruction of surface crystallography from three-dimensional polarization distribution in ferroelectric barium-titanate ceramics

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 233-235

  Eng, L M ^a   Guntherodt H J ^b   Schneider, G A ^c   Kopke U ^c   Munoz Saldana J ^c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VECTORS;

SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY; SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;

BARIUM TITANATE;

EID: 0033545055     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.123266     Document Type: Article

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