Nanoscale properties of thin twin walls and surface layers in piezoelectric WO3-x

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Kim, Yunseok ^a   Alexe, Marin ^a   Salje, Ekhard K H ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SURFACES; HIGH CURRENTS; NANOSCALE PROPERTIES; NON-CENTROSYMMETRIC; OXIDIZATION; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTIVITY; PIEZOELECTRIC COEFFICIENT; PIEZORESPONSE FORCE MICROSCOPY; SURFACE LAYERS; TETRAGONAL STRUCTURE; TWIN BOUNDARIES; TWIN WALLS; UPPER BOUND;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DOMAIN WALLS; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 77949836367     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3292587     Document Type: Article

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