Nanopolar structure in Srx Ba1-x Nb2 O6 single crystals tuned by Sr/Ba ratio and investigated by piezoelectric force microscopy

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Shvartsman, Vladimir V ^a   Kleemann, Wolfgang ^a   Łukasiewicz, Tadeusz ^b   Dec, Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Department of Micro and Nanotechnology of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

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EID: 40749126813     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.054105     Document Type: Article

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