Thermotropic phase boundaries in classic ferroelectrics

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Lummen, Tom T A ^a   Gu, Yijia ^a   Wang, Jianjun ^a,b   Lei, Shiming ^a   Xue, Fei ^a   Kumar, Amit ^a,c   Barnes, Andrew T ^a   Barnes, Eftihia ^a   Denev, Sava ^a   Belianinov, Alex ^c   Holt, Martin ^c   Morozovska, Anna N ^d   Kalinin, Sergei V ^c   Chen, Long Qing ^a   Gopalan, Venkatraman ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; LEAD; NONLINEARITY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; ELECTRICITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERROELECTRICS; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; PHASE TRANSITION; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

EID: 84892889077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4172     Document Type: Article

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