Domain walls in a perovskite oxide with two primary structural order parameters: First-principles study of BiFeO3

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Diéguez, Oswaldo ^a,b   Aguado Puente, Pablo ^c   Junquera, Javier ^c   Íñiguez, Jorge ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA ICMAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

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EID: 84872252392     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.024102     Document Type: Article

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