Residual ferroelectricity in barium strontium titanate thin film tunable dielectrics

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Garten, L M ^a   Lam, P ^b   Harris, D ^b   Maria, J P ^b   Trolier Mckinstry, S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM STRONTIUM TITANATE; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC LOSSES; THIN FILMS;

BARIUM STRONTIUM TITANATE THIN FILMS; FERROELECTRIC RESPONSE; FREQUENCY DISPERSION; PARAELECTRIC TRANSITIONS; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; TUNABLE DIELECTRICS; TUNABLE MICROWAVE DIELECTRICS; TUNABLE PERFORMANCE;

FERROELECTRICITY;

EID: 84905860853     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: 10897550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4891717     Document Type: Article

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