Intrinsic nucleation mechanism and disorder effects in polarization switching on ferroelectric surfaces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Maksymovych, Peter ^a   Jesse, Stephen ^a   Huijben, Mark ^b   Ramesh, Ramamoorthy ^b   Morozovska, Anna ^c   Choudhury, Samrat ^d   Chen, Long Qing ^d   Baddorf, Arthur P ^a   Kalinin, Sergei V ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITAXIAL FILMS; FERROELECTRIC FILMS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VACUUM;

AMBIENT ENVIRONMENTS; DISORDER EFFECTS; ELECTROSTATIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRIC DOMAINS; FERROELECTRIC SURFACES; FERROELECTRIC SWITCHING; FORCE SPECTROSCOPIES; METAL TIPS; NUCLEATION MECHANISMS; PHASE FIELDS; PIEZORESPONSE; POLARIZATION SWITCHING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCES; TEMPERATURE RANGES; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; VARIABLE TEMPERATURES;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 58949104014     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.017601     Document Type: Article

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