Giant anhysteretic response of ferroelectric solid solutions with morphotropic boundaries: The role of polar anisotropy

Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 429-440

  Ni, Yong ^a,b   Khachaturyan, Armen G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Piscataway   (United States)

Author keywords

ferrodomain; ferroelectric; morphotropic phase boundary; phase field; piezoelectricity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MODELING AND SIMULATION; ENERGY SURFACE; FERRODOMAIN; FERROELECTRIC SOLID SOLUTIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE ENGINEERING; MORPHOTROPIC PHASE BOUNDARIES; MULTI DOMAINS; PHASE DECOMPOSITIONS; PHASE FIELDS; PIEZOELECTRIC PROPERTY; POLARIZATION ROTATION; POLING ELECTRIC FIELDS; PZT; STRAIN RESPONSE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DECOMPOSITION; DOMAIN WALLS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; LEAD; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHASE BOUNDARIES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POLARIZATION; ZIRCONIUM;

ANISOTROPY;

EID: 84865765203     PISSN: 08949166     EISSN: 18602134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-9166(12)60038-X     Document Type: Article

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