Room-temperature ferroelectricity in CuInP 2 S 6 ultrathin flakes

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Liu, Fucai ^a   You, Lu ^a   Seyler, Kyle L ^b   Li, Xiaobao ^c   Yu, Peng ^a   Lin, Junhao ^d,e   Wang, Xuewen ^a   Zhou, Jiadong ^a   Wang, Hong ^a   He, Haiyong ^a   Pantelides, Sokrates T ^d,e   Zhou, Wu ^e   Sharma, Pradeep ^f   Xu, Xiaodong ^b   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^g   Wang, Junling ^a   Liu, Zheng ^a,h,i,j  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^g Rice University   (United States)

^h NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

ⁱ RESEARCH TECHNO PLAZA   (Singapore)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; POLARIZATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DEPOLARIZATION; DIODE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FERROELECTRICITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PHASE TRANSITION; POLARIZATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84982085106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12357     Document Type: Article

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