Phase switching at low field and large sustainable strain output in domain engineered ferroic crystals

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Volumn 209, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2108-2113

  Finkel, Peter ^a   Amin, Ahmed ^a   Lofland, Sam ^b   Yao, Jaojin ^c   Viehland, Dwight ^c  

^a NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

domains; ferroelectrics; piezoelectricity

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMECHANICAL ENERGY; FERROELECTRIC RHOMBOHEDRAL; FERROIC CRYSTALS; FERROIC SYSTEMS; FERROICS; FEW-CYCLE; HIGH ELECTRIC FIELDS; INDUCED STRAIN; LATTICE STRAIN; LEAD MAGNESIUM NIOBATE; LEAD TITANATES; LOW FIELD; MECHANICAL STRESS; MEMORY STORAGE; MONODOMAINS; MULTIPLE DOMAINS; NIOBATES; PHASE SWITCHING; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; POLARIZATION CONTROL; RELAXORS; STRAIN CYCLES;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY CONVERSION; EXPERIMENTS; FERROELECTRICITY; MAGNESIUM; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STRESSES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 84869792628     PISSN: 18626300     EISSN: 18626319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201228314     Document Type: Article

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