Toughening of ferroelectrics by the out-of-plane poling

Acta Mechanica Sinica/Lixue Xuebao

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 147-153

  Yang, Wei ^a   Fang, Fei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Domain switching; Ferroelectrics; Fracture toughness; Out of plane poling; Stress intensity factors

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

DOMAIN SWITCH; FERROELECTRICS; OUT OF PLANE POLING;

FERROELECTRIC CERAMICS;

EID: 0042467829     PISSN: 05677718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02487676     Document Type: Article

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