Domain structure and polarization properties of lanthanum-substituted bismuth titanate single crystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 100-102

  Soga, Masayuki ^a   Noguchi, Yuji ^a,c   Miyayama, Masaru ^a   Okino, Hirotake ^b   Yamamoto, Takashi ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; LANTHANUM; MICROELECTRONICS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

ANTIPHASE DOMAIN BOUNDARY (ADB); DOMAIN STRUCTURES;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 0942288904     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1638631     Document Type: Article

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