Anisotropic conductance at improper ferroelectric domain walls

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 284-288

  Meier, D ^a,b   Seidel, J ^a,c,d   Cano, A ^e   Delaney, K ^f   Kumagai, Y ^g   Mostovoy, M ^h   Spaldin, N A ^g   Ramesh, R ^a,b,c   Fiebig, M ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

DOMAIN WALL ORIENTATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLINESS; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; INSULATOR METAL TRANSITION; PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY; STRONG ELECTRONIC CORRELATIONS; TAIL-TO-TAIL DOMAIN WALLS; TRANSITION-METAL OXIDES;

DOMAIN WALLS;

EID: 84858794379     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3249     Document Type: Article

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