Competing structural instabilities in the ferroelectric Aurivillius compound SrBi2Ta2O9

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 1-14

  Perez Mato, J M ^a   Aroyo, M ^a   García, Alberto ^a   Blaha, P ^b   Schwarz, K ^b   Schweifer, J ^b   Parlinski, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH DERIVATIVE; BISMUTH OXIDE; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITION; PHONON; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 13744260953     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.214111     Document Type: Article

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