New insight into the concept of ferroelectric correlation volume

Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 517-520

  Geneste, Grégory ^a   Bousquet, Eric ^b   Ghosez, Philippe ^b  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

BaTiO3; Correlation volume; Ferroelectricity; Size effects

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CALCULATIONS; CHAINS; FERROELECTRICITY;

ANISOTROPIC SHAPES; BATIO; EFFECTIVE HAMILTONIAN; FERROELECTRIC DISTORTION; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; INTERCHAIN INTERACTIONS; POLAR REGIONS; SIZE EFFECTS;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 47149086465     PISSN: 15461955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jctn.2008.2493     Document Type: Article

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