Ferroelectricity in barium titanate quantum dots and wires

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 25, 2003, Pages

  Fu, Huaxiang ^a   Bellaiche, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FERROELECTRICITY; HAMILTONIANS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLARIZATION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLID SOLUTIONS; THIN FILMS;

COVALENT INTERACTIONS; ELECTRICAL DIPOLES; LOCAL DENSITY APPROXIMATIONS (LDA);

BARIUM TITANATE;

EID: 0942299555     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.257601     Document Type: Article

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