The missing boundary in the phase diagram of PbZr1-xTixO3

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhang, N ^a,b   Yokota, H ^c   Glazer, A M ^d,e   Ren, Z ^a   Keen, D A ^f   Keeble, D S ^e   Thomas, P A ^e   Ye, Z G ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^f RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD; PEROVSKITE; TITANIUM; ZIRCONIUM DERIVATIVE;

BOUNDARY; DIAGRAM; ELECTRIC FIELD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PEROVSKITE; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POLARIZATION; POWDER DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84919748288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6231     Document Type: Article

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