Pseudoproper ferroelastic softening behaviour and dynamic microstructure of monoclinic PrAlO3 perovskite

Phase Transitions

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 703-713

  Carpenter, M A ^a   Wiltshire, E C ^a   Howard, C J ^a,b   Thomson, R I ^a   Turczynski, S ^c   Pawlak, D A ^c   Lukasiewicz, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c Department of Micro and Nanotechnology of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors   (Poland)

Author keywords

elastic softening; Jahn Teller; PrAlO3; pseudoproper ferroelastic; superattenuation

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC SOFTENING; FERROELASTICS; JAHN-TELLER; PRALO3; SUPERATTENUATION;

PEROVSKITE; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPECTROSCOPY; STABILITY;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 77956583739     PISSN: 01411594     EISSN: 10290338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01411594.2010.491953     Document Type: Article

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