Morphotropic phase-boundary-like characteristic in a lead-free and non-ferroelectric (1-x) NaNb O3 -xCaTi O3 system

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Tripathi, Saurabh ^a   Pandey, Dhananjai ^a   Mishra, Sanjay Kumar ^b   Krishna, P S R ^b  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

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EID: 40749138649     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.052104     Document Type: Article

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