Novel nanorod precipitate formation in neodymium and titanium codoped bismuth ferrite

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 683-689

  Maclaren, Ian ^a   Wang, Li Qiu ^a   Schaffer, Bernhard ^a   Ramasse, Quentin M ^b   Craven, Alan J ^a   Selbach, Sverre M ^c,d   Spaldin, Nicola A ^c   Miao, Shu ^e   Kalantari, Kambiz ^e   Reaney, Ian M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b SUPERSTEM LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bismuth ferrite; density functional theory; electron energy loss spectrum imaging; nanorod; scanning transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RATIO; BISMUTH FERRITES; CO-DOPED; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTRUM; FERROELASTIC DOMAINS; FINITE DENSITY; HIGH-ANGLE ANNULAR DARK-FIELD IMAGING; INTERNAL STRAINS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELF-ASSEMBLED; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BISMUTH; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FERRITE; NEODYMIUM; PRECIPITATES; TITANIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

NANORODS;

EID: 84873671583     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201201835     Document Type: Article

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