Impact of misfit dislocation on the polarization instability of epitaxial nanostructured ferroelectric perovskites

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 87-90

  Chu, Ming Wen ^a   Szafraniak, Izabela ^a,b   Scholz, Roland ^a   Harnagea, Catalin ^a,c   Hesse, Dietrich ^a   Alexe, Marin ^a   Gösele, Ulrich ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS;

DISLOCATION-INDUCED POLARIZATION INSTABILITY; NANOSTRUCTURED FERROELECTRIC; PIEZORESPONSE FORCE MICROSCOPY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; OXIDE; PEROVSKITE; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXIDES; SEMICONDUCTORS; TITANIUM;

EID: 0842321948     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1057     Document Type: Letter

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