Ferroelectric domains in SrxBa1-xNb2O 6 single crystals (0.4≤×≤ 0.75)

Ferroelectrics

Volumn 376, Issue 1 PART 2, 2008, Pages 1-8

  Shvartsman, Vladimir V ^a   Dec, Jan ^a,b   Miga, Seweryn ^b   Ukasiewicz, Tadeusz ^c   Kleemann, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c ukasiewicz Research Network Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ferroelectric domains; Fractality; Piezo force microscopy; Polydispersivity; Random field Ising model; Random field scaling; Relaxor ferroelectrics

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC DOMAINS; FRACTALITY; PIEZOFORCE MICROSCOPY; RANDOM FIELD ISING MODELS; RANDOM FIELDS; RELAXOR FERROELECTRIC;

BARIUM; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; FRACTALS; ISING MODEL; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYDISPERSITY;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 73849128661     PISSN: 00150193     EISSN: 15635112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00150190802440658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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