Onset of ferrielectricity and the hidden nature of nanoscale polarization in ferroelectric thin films

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Nuñez, Matías ^a   Buongiorno Nardelli, M ^a,b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRIC THIN FILMS; FERROELECTRICITY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLARIZATION; THICK FILMS; THIN FILMS;

LOCAL POLARIZATION; REDUCED DIMENSIONALITY;

FERROELECTRIC FILMS;

EID: 51649124049     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.107603     Document Type: Article

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