Domain and surface engineering of ferroelectric crystal LiNbO 3 for novel devices

Materials Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 162-167

  Terabe, Kazuya ^a   Liu, Xiaoyan ^a   Nakamura, Masaru ^a   Takekawa, Shunji ^a   Kitamura, Kenji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ETCHING; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; MORPHOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SURFACES;

LITHIUM NIOBATE SINGLE CRYSTAL; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ENGINEERING;

LITHIUM NIOBATE;

EID: 7244254661     PISSN: 10667857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10667857.2004.11753080     Document Type: Article

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