Vertical Interface Induced Dielectric Relaxation in Nanocomposite (BaTiO3)1-x:(Sm2O3)x Thin Films

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Li, Weiwei ^a,b   Zhang, Wei ^b   Wang, Le ^c   Gu, Junxing ^c   Chen, Aiping ^d   Zhao, Run ^b   Liang, Yan ^b   Guo, Haizhong ^c   Tang, Rujun ^b   Wang, Chunchang ^e   Jin, Kuijuan ^c   Wang, Haiyan ^d   Yang, Hao ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^d Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^e ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84935844955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11335     Document Type: Article

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