Polarization control of electron tunneling into ferroelectric surfaces

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5933, 2009, Pages 1421-1425

  Maksymovych, Peter ^a   Jesse, Stephen ^a   Yu, Pu ^b   Ramesh, Ramamoorthy ^b   Baddorf, Arthur P ^a   Kalininl, Sergei V ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC OXIDE; LEAD; TITANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; ELECTRIC FIELD; HYSTERESIS; LEAD; OXIDE; POLARIZATION; TITANATE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYSTERESIS; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURFACE CHARGE; THIN FILAMENT;

EID: 67149123647     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1171200     Document Type: Article

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