Effects of annealing conditions on ferroelectric nanomesa self-assembly

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 18, Issue 31, 2006, Pages 7383-7392

  Bai, Mengjun ^a,b   Poulsen, Matt ^a   Ducharme, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COPOLYMERS; PLASTIC FLOW; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMERS; POLYVINYLIDENE CHLORIDES; SELF ASSEMBLY; THIN FILMS;

FERROELECTRIC NANOMESA; PARAELECTRIC PHASE; SURFACE REORGANIZATION; ULTRA-THIN LANGMUIR-BLODGETT FILMS;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 33746452275     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/18/31/030     Document Type: Article

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