Investigating the effects of reduced size on the properties of ferroelectrics

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2208-2223

  Saad, Mohamed M ^b   Baxter, Paul ^b   McAneney, Jonny ^b   Lookman, Akeela ^b   Sinnamon, Lesley J ^b   Evans, Paul ^b   Schilling, Alina ^b   Adams, Tim ^b   Zhu, Xinhua ^b   Pollard, Robert J ^b   Bowman, Robert M ^a   Gregg, J Marty ^b   Jung, Dong Jin ^c   Morrison, Finlay D ^c   Scott, James F ^c  

^a IEEE

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PERMITTIVITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; THIN FILMS;

ALUMINA TEMPLATES; DIELECTRIC COLLAPSE; FERROELECTRIC ELECTRODE BOUNDARY; FERROELECTRIC HETEROSTRUCTURES;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVALUATION; IMPEDANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 33846309688     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.168     Document Type: Article

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