Geometric frustration in compositionally modulated ferroelectrics

Nature

Volumn 470, Issue 7335, 2011, Pages 513-517

  Choudhury, Narayani ^a   Walizer, Laura ^b   Lisenkov, Sergey ^c   Bellaiche, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOMETRY; GLASS; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MICROSCOPY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOPOLOGY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FERROELECTRICS; GEOMETRIC FRUSTRATION; GEOMETRY; MAGNET; MAGNETISM; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE SENSE;

EID: 79952194743     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09752     Document Type: Article

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