Polarization fatigue of organic ferroelectric capacitors

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhao, Dong ^a   Katsouras, Ilias ^a   Li, Mengyuan ^a,b   Asadi, Kamal ^a   Tsurumi, Junto ^c,d   Glasser, Gunnar ^a   Takeya, Jun ^d   Blom, Paul W M ^a   De Leeuw, Dago M ^a,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

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EID: 84901487363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05075     Document Type: Article

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