Effects of unequally biaxial misfit strains on polarization phase diagrams in embedded ferroelectric thin layers: Phase field simulations

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 13, 2008, Pages

  Liu, Ping Li ^a,b   Wang, Jie ^c   Zhang, Tong Yi ^b,c   Li, Yulan ^d   Chen, Long Qing ^d   Ma, Xing Qiao ^a   Chu, Wu Yang ^a   Qiao, Li Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); EPITAXIAL LAYERS; FERROELECTRICITY; PHASE DIAGRAMS;

BIAXIAL MISFIT STRAINS; EPITAXIAL FERROELECTRIC; EQUILIBRIUM DOMAIN; PHASE-FIELD SIMULATIONS; POLARIZATION PHASE; STABILITY DIAGRAMS; THIN LAYERING;

PHASE STABILITY;

EID: 53349090113     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2975161     Document Type: Article

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