Formation of charged ferroelectric domain walls with controlled periodicity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Bednyakov, Petr S ^a   Sluka, Tomas ^a   Tagantsev, Alexander K ^a   Damjanovic, Dragan ^a   Setter, Nava ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84946117393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep15819     Document Type: Article

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