Evolution of the polar structure in relaxor ferroelectrics close to the curie temperature studied by piezoresponse force microscopy

Ferroelectrics

Volumn 373, Issue 1 PART 1, 2008, Pages 77-85

  Shvartsman, V V ^a   Dec, J ^b   Lukasiewicz T ^c   Kholkin, A L ^d   Kleemann, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c Department of Micro and Nanotechnology of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Phase transition; Piezoresponse force microscopy; Relaxors; Single crystals

Indexed keywords

ERGODICS; FERROELECTRIC STATE; NANO-SIZED; PIEZORESPONSE; PIEZORESPONSE FORCE MICROSCOPY; POLAR STRUCTURES; QUASI-STATIC; RELAXOR FERROELECTRIC; RELAXORS; SPONTANEOUS TRANSITION; TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TIME-SCALES; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

BARIUM; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; LEAD; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTOTRANSISTORS;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 69949153568     PISSN: 00150193     EISSN: 15635112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00150190802408739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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