Spontaneous Polarization-Induced Nanohelixes, Nanosprings, and Nanorings of Piezoelectric Nanobelts

Nano Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1625-1631

  Kong, Xiang Yang ^a   Wang, Zhong Lin ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ELASTICITY; ENERGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POLARIZATION; SENSOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS; TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0346101516     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl034463p     Document Type: Article

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41. Thanks the support from NSF and NASA URETI. Thanks to Profs. Min Zhou and Ashok Saxena for discussion.