Coercive fields in ferroelectrics: A case study in lithium niobate and lithium tantalate

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 2740-2742

  Kim, Sungwon ^a   Gopalan, Venkatraman ^a   Gruverman, Alexei ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COERCIVE ELECTRIC FIELD; COERCIVE FIELD; DOMAIN REVERSAL; DOMAIN WALL MOTION; LITHIUM NIOBATE; LITHIUM TANTALATE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POLARIZATION GRADIENTS; UPPER LIMITS;

COERCIVE FORCE; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LITHIUM; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; POLARIZATION;

DOMAIN WALLS;

EID: 79955984373     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1470247     Document Type: Article

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