Electronic ferroelectricity in a molecular crystal with large polarization directing antiparallel to ionic displacement

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Kobayashi, Kensuke ^a   Horiuchi, Sachio ^b,c   Kumai, Reiji ^a,b   Kagawa, Fumitaka ^c,d   Murakami, Youichi ^a   Tokura, Yoshinori ^b,d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS STRUCTURE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON DONORS; FERROELECTRIC POLARIZATION; FERROELECTRIC PROPERTY; INTERMOLECULAR CHARGE TRANSFER; IONIC DISPLACEMENT; MOLECULAR STACKING; NONPOLAR MOLECULES; POINT-CHARGE MODELS; POLING EFFECT; STATIC POINT; STRUCTURAL CONFIGURATIONS; TETRATHIAFULVALENES;

CHARGE TRANSFER; FERROELECTRICITY; MOLECULAR CRYSTALS; MOLECULES;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84861896038     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.237601     Document Type: Article

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