Mechanism of polarization fatigue in BiFeO 3

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 8997-9004

  Zou, Xi ^a   You, Lu ^a   Chen, Weigang ^a   Ding, Hui ^a   Wu, Di ^b   Wu, Tom ^c   Chen, Lang ^a   Wang, Junling ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

charge injection; charged domain wall; fatigue; multiferroic; scanning kelvin probe microscopy

Indexed keywords

CHARGED DOMAIN WALL; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERIZATION; ELECTRICAL CYCLING; FERROELECTRIC MEMORY; FERROELECTRIC OXIDES; IN-PLANE POLARIZATION; LOCAL POLARIZATION; LONG LASTING; MULTIFERROICS; PIEZORESPONSE FORCE MICROSCOPY; PLANAR DEVICE STRUCTURES; POLARIZATION FATIGUE; RESEARCH TOPICS; SCANNING KELVIN PROBE MICROSCOPY;

CHARGE INJECTION; DOMAIN WALLS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FERROELECTRIC FILMS;

POLARIZATION;

BISMUTH; FERROUS ION; FERROUS OXIDE; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BISMUTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PARTICLE SIZE; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84867771903     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303090k     Document Type: Article

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