Ab initio calculations of ferroelectric instability in PbTiO3 capacitors with symmetric and asymmetric electrode layers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Umeno, Yoshitaka ^a,b   Albina, Jan Michael ^c   Meyer, Bernd ^d   Elsässer, Christian ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 77954695584     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205122     Document Type: Article

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