Direct observation of continuous electric dipole rotation in flux-closure domains in ferroelectric Pb(Zr, Ti)O3

Science

Volumn 331, Issue 6023, 2011, Pages 1420-1423

  Jia, Chun Lin ^a   Urban, Knut W ^a   Alexe, Marin ^b   Hesse, Dietrich ^b   Vrejoiu, Ionela ^b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZIRCONIUM;

ELECTRIC FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILM; LEAD; PEROVSKITE; POLARIZATION; TITANIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VORTEX; ZIRCONIUM;

ARTICLE; DEPOLARIZATION; DIPOLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FILM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 79952801386     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1200605     Document Type: Article

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