Atomistic simulations of the incipient ferroelectric KTaO3

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Akbarzadeh, A R ^a   Bellaiche, L ^a   Leung, Kevin ^b   Íñiguez, Jorge ^c,d,e   Vanderbilt, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM TANTALATE; TANTALUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; LOW TEMPERATURE; PHASE TRANSITION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SIMULATION;

EID: 42749104705     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.054103     Document Type: Article

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