Conduction at a ferroelectric interface

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Marshall, Matthew S J ^a,b   Malashevich, Andrei ^a,b   Disa, Ankit S ^a,b   Han, Myung Geun ^c   Chen, Hanghui ^a,b   Zhu, Yimei ^c   Ismail Beigi, Sohrab ^a,b   Walker, Frederick J ^a,b   Ahn, Charles H ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; LEAD OXIDE; POLARIZATION;

CONDUCTING CHANNELS; FERROELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRIC INTERFACE; FERROELECTRIC POLARIZATION; HETEROSTRUCTURE DEVICES; MOBILITY CHANGES; ORDER PARAMETER; POLARIZATION STATE;

FERROELECTRICITY;

EID: 84926438338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.2.051001     Document Type: Article

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