Electrode effects and coercive fields in nanoscaled ferroelectric films

Ferroelectrics

Volumn 375, Issue 1 PART 1, 2008, Pages 107-114

  Kliem, H ^a   Kuehn, M ^a   Farag, N ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coercive field; Electrode effects; Thickness dependence; Thin films

Indexed keywords

COERCIVE FIELD; ELECTRODE EFFECTS; IMAGE DIPOLE; NANOSCALED; PINNING EFFECTS; POLARIZATION REVERSALS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; THICKNESS DEPENDENCE; ULTRATHIN DIELECTRICS;

COERCIVE FORCE; FERROELECTRICITY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THIN FILMS;

FERROELECTRIC FILMS;

EID: 64149098620     PISSN: 00150193     EISSN: 15635112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00150190802437936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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