Ferroelectric-paraelectric transition in BiFeO3: Crystal structure of the orthorhombic β phase

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Arnold, Donna C ^a   Knight, Kevin S ^b   Morrison, Finlay D ^a   Lightfoot, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FERROELECTRICITY; OXIDE MINERALS; PEROVSKITE; SEMICONDUCTING BISMUTH COMPOUNDS;

ABRUPT CHANGES; FERROELECTRIC-PARAELECTRIC TRANSITIONS; FINITE TEMPERATURES; FIRST ORDERS; PARAELECTRIC; PEROVSKITE STRUCTURES; POWDER NEUTRON DIFFRACTIONS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS; VARIABLE TEMPERATURES;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 59449106923     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.027602     Document Type: Article

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