Ionic polarizability of conductive metal oxides and critical thickness for ferroelectricity in BaTiO 3

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

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

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC CAPACITORS; FROZEN-PHONON CALCULATIONS; IONIC POLARIZABILITY; IONIC RELAXATIONS; OXIDE ELECTRODES; SRRUO3 LATTICE;

BARIUM TITANATE; CAPACITORS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRODES; FERROELECTRICITY; PHONONS; POLARIZATION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; THIN FILMS;

CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 33644945726     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.107603     Document Type: Article

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