Self-organization, condensation, and annihilation of topological vortices and antivortices in a multiferroic

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 50, 2010, Pages 21366-21370

  Chae, S C ^a   Horibe, Y ^a   Jeong, D Y ^b   Rodan, S ^a   Lee, N ^a   Cheong, S W ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Soongsil University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YMNO3;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; DESTRUCTION; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; NANOANALYSIS; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; IRON COMPOUNDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; YTTRIUM;

EID: 78650741797     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1011380107     Document Type: Article

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