Investigation of embedded perovskite nanoparticles for enhanced capacitor permittivities

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 19737-19743

  Krause, Andreas ^a   Weber, Walter M ^a   Pohl, Darius ^b   Rellinghaus, Bernd ^b   Verheijen, Marcel ^c   Mikolajick, Thomas ^a,d  

^a NAMLAB GGMBH   (Germany)

^b IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dielectrics; Local epitaxy; Nanocrystallites; Perovskites; Surface energy

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; NANOCRYSTALLITES; NANOCRYSTALS; PERMITTIVITY; PEROVSKITE;

AMORPHOUS LAYER; AMORPHOUS MATRICES; AMORPHOUS THIN FILMS; CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; EPITAXIAL ALIGNMENT; POLYCRYSTALLINE; ULTRA-THIN METALS; ULTRATHIN LAYERS;

PLATINUM;

EID: 84914680419     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am504831q     Document Type: Article

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