Flexoelectric effect in solids

Annual Review of Materials Research

Volumn 43, Issue , 2013, Pages 387-421

  Zubko, Pavlo ^a   Catalan, Gustau ^b,c   Tagantsev, Alexander K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Domain walls; Electromechanical coupling; Ferroelectricity; Piezoelectricity; Strain gradients

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMECHANICAL PHENOMENON; FLEXOELECTRIC EFFECTS; FLEXOELECTRICITY; LARGE STRAINS; NANO-SCALE SYSTEM; NANOSCALE TECHNOLOGIES; POLARIZATION AND STRAINS; STRAIN GRADIENTS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DOMAIN WALLS; ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING; FERROELECTRICITY; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84880203642     PISSN: 15317331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-matsci-071312-121634     Document Type: Review

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