Enhanced electromechanical response of ferroelectrics due to charged domain walls

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sluka, Tomas ^a   Tagantsev, Alexander K ^a   Damjanovic, Dragan ^a   Gureev, Maxim ^a   Setter, Nava ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

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PEROVSKITE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOMOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; DENSITY; DEPOLARIZATION; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENTHALPY; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POLARIZATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE CHARGE;

EID: 84859169895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1751     Document Type: Article

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