Ferroelectricity in Ultrathin-Film Capacitors

Oxide Ultrathin Films

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 265-230

  Lichtensteiger, Céline ^a   Zubko, Pavlo ^a   Stengel, Massimiliano ^b   Aguado Puente, Pablo ^c   Triscone, Jean Marc ^a   Ghosez, Philippe ^d   Junquera, Javier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Depolarization field; Domain walls; Interface engineering; Size effects; Strain; Superlattices; Theory of ferroelectricity

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN WALLS; STRAIN; SUPERLATTICES; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

DEPOLARIZATION FIELDS; INTERFACE ENGINEERING; SIZE EFFECTS;

FERROELECTRICITY;

EID: 84882875106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527640171.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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