Structure and energetics of ferroelectric domain walls in LiNbO3 from atomic-level simulations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Lee, Donghwa ^a   Xu, Haixuan ^a   Dierolf, Volkmar ^b   Gopalan, Venkatraman ^c   Phillpot, Simon R ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77956519738     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.014104     Document Type: Article

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