Spontaneous polarization in ultrasmall lithium niobate nanocrystals revealed by second harmonic generation

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Knabe, Bastian ^a,c   Buse, Karsten ^a,c   Assenmacher, Wilfried ^b   Mader, Werner ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IPM   (Germany)

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EID: 84870410461     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.195428     Document Type: Article

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