Ferroelectric translational antiphase boundaries in nonpolar materials

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wei, Xian Kui ^a,b   Tagantsev, Alexander K ^a   Kvasov, Alexander ^a   Roleder, Krystian ^c   Jia, Chun Lin ^b,d   Setter, Nava ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD; LEAD ZIRCONATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BOUNDARY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INORGANIC COMPOUND; MAGNITUDE; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; POLARIZATION;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FERROELECTRICITY; MECHANICS; MEMORY; PHASE TRANSITION;

EID: 84899740939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4031     Document Type: Article

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