Coexistence of rectilinear and vortex polarizations at twist boundaries in ferroelectric PbTiO3 from first principles

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Shimada, Takahiro ^a   Wang, Xiaoyuan ^a   Tomoda, Shogo ^a   Marton, Pavel ^b   Elsässer, Christian ^b   Kitamura, Takayuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

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EID: 79961001547     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.094121     Document Type: Article

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