Ferroelastic domain switching dynamics under electrical and mechanical excitations

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gao, Peng ^a,f   Britson, Jason ^b   Nelson, Christopher T ^a   Jokisaari, Jacob R ^a   Duan, Chen ^b   Trassin, Morgan ^c   Baek, Seung Hyub ^d   Guo, Hua ^e   Li, Linze ^a   Wang, Yiran ^a   Chu, Ying Hao ^c   Minor, Andrew M ^c,e   Eom, Chang Beom ^d   Ramesh, Ramamoorthy ^c   Chen, Long Qing ^b   Pan, Xiaoqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^d Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; LEAD;

ARTICLE; ENGINEERING; EXCITATION; GENERAL DEVICE; IMMOBILITY; NEEDLE; POLARIZATION; STRESS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84899875106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4801     Document Type: Article

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