Ferroelectric order in individual nanometre-scale crystals

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 700-709

  Polking, Mark J ^a   Han, Myung Geun ^b   Yourdkhani, Amin ^c   Petkov, Valeri ^d   Kisielowski, Christian F ^e   Volkov, Vyacheslav V ^b   Zhu, Yimei ^b   Caruntu, Gabriel ^c   Paul Alivisatos, A ^e,f   Ramesh, Ramamoorthy ^a,e  

^a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^d CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLARIZATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTROSTATIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FERROELECTRIC DISTORTION; FERROELECTRIC DOMAINS; FINITE DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; NANOSCALE POLARIZATION; PARTICLE MORPHOLOGIES; STRUCTURAL DISTORTIONS; TEMPERATURE POLARIZATION;

FERROELECTRICITY;

EID: 84864353333     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3371     Document Type: Article

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