Surface-stimulated nucleation of reverse domains in ferroelectrics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Gerra, G ^a   Tagantsev, A K ^a   Setter, N ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COERCIVITY PARADOX; FERROELECTRIC-ELECTRODE COUPLING; PHASE BOUNDARIES; REVERSE DOMAINS;

COERCIVE FORCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; ELECTRODES; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; PEROVSKITE; PHASE INTERFACES; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 18044371649     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.107602     Document Type: Article

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