Nanodots of multiferroic oxide material BiFeO3 from the first principles

Advances in Manufacturing

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 166-175

  Ren, Wei ^a,b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory; Multiferroic; Nanodot; Vortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899841111     PISSN: 20953127     EISSN: 21953597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40436-013-0026-1     Document Type: Article

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