Negative capacitance in multidomain ferroelectric superlattices

Nature

Volumn 534, Issue 7608, 2016, Pages 524-528

  Zubko, Pavlo ^a   Wojdel, Jacek C ^b   Hadjimichael, Marios ^a   Fernandez Pena, Stéphanie ^c   Sené, Anaïs ^d   Luk'yanchuk, Igor ^d,e   Triscone, Jean Marc ^c   Íñiguez, Jorge ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d Universite de Picardie Jules Verne   (France)

^e LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^f LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOMOGENEITY; MEMORY; PERMITTIVITY; POLARIZATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CRYSTAL; DEPOLARIZATION; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FILM; NEGATIVE CAPACITANCE; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84975758761     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature17659     Document Type: Article

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