Above-room-temperature ferroelectricity in a single-component molecular crystal

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7282, 2010, Pages 789-792

  Horiuchi, Sachio ^a   Tokunaga, Yusuke ^b   Giovannetti, Gianluca ^c,d   Picozzi, Silvia ^c   Itoh, Hirotake ^b   Shimano, Ryo ^b,e   Kumai, Reiji ^a   Tokura, Yoshinori ^a,b,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c CASTI Regional Laboratory ^*  (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; CROCONIC ACID; SQUARIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CRYSTAL PROPERTY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; IRON; OPTICAL METHOD; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FERROELECTRICITY; HYSTERESIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR SIZE; OPTICAL ROTATION; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 76749152347     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08731     Document Type: Article

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