Properties of Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 ultrathin films under stress-free and open-circuit electrical boundary conditions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 22, 2004, Pages

  Almahmoud, Emad ^a   Navtsenya, Yulia ^a   Kornev, Igor ^a   Fu, Huaxiang ^a   Bellaiche, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD OXIDE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZIRCONIUM OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; FILM; LOW TEMPERATURE; PHASE TRANSITION; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POLARIZATION; SIMULATION;

EID: 13844266045     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.220102     Document Type: Article

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