Effect of a built-in electric field in asymmetric ferroelectric tunnel junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Yang ^a,b   Lou, Xiaojie ^a   Bibes, Manuel ^c   Dkhil, Brahim ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LABORATOIRE STRUCTURES   (France)

^c UNITÉ MIXTE DE PHYSIQUE CNRS THALES   (France)

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EID: 84880821402     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.024106     Document Type: Article

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