Advances in the growth and characterization of relaxor-PT-based ferroelectric single crystals

Crystals

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 306-330

  Luo, Jun ^a   Zhang, Shujun ^b  

^a TRS TECHNOLOGIES INC   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic behavior; Composition segregation; Dielectric properties; Piezoelectric properties; Relaxor based ferroelectric crystals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904426685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cryst4030306     Document Type: Review

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