Monodomain to polydomain transition in ferroelectric PbTiO3 thin films with La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 electrodes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Lichtensteiger, Ćline ^a   Dawber, Matthew ^a   Stucki, Nicolas ^a   Triscone, Jean Marc ^a   Hoffman, Jason ^b   Yau, Jeng Bang ^b   Ahn, Charles H ^b   Despont, Laurent ^c   Aebi, Philipp ^c  

^a DPMC Universit de Ge ve   (Switzerland)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILM TETRAGONALITY; FILM THICKNESS; PIEZORESPONSE ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRODES; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; POLARIZATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

FERROELECTRIC THIN FILMS;

EID: 33847000519     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2433757     Document Type: Article

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