Role of intrinsic disorder in the structural phase transition of magnetoelectric EuTiO 3

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 18, 2012, Pages

  Allieta, Mattia ^a   Scavini, Marco ^a   Spalek, Leszek J ^b,c   Scagnoli, Valerio ^d,e   Walker, Helen C ^e   Panagopoulos, Christos ^b,c,f   Saxena, Siddharth S ^b   Katsufuji, Takuro ^g   Mazzoli, Claudio ^e,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^f NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^g WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

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EID: 84861690064     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.184107     Document Type: Article

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