Domain wall broadening mechanism for domain size effect of enhanced piezoelectricity in crystallographically engineered ferroelectric single crystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Rao, Wei Feng ^a   Wang, Yu U ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; HYSTERESIS; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

DOMAIN WALL BROADENING; ENERGY DIFFERENCES; FERROELECTRIC SINGLE CRYSTALS; INTERFERROELECTRIC TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 33846594398     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2435584     Document Type: Article

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