Flexoelectric rotation of polarization in ferroelectric thin films
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Flexoelectric rotation of polarization in ferroelectric thin films.
Strain engineering enables modification of the properties of thin films using the stress from the substrates on which they are grown. Strain may be relaxed, however, and this can also modify the properties thanks to the coupling between strain gradient and polarization known as flexoelectricity. Here we have studied the strain distribution inside epitaxial films of the archetypal ferroelectric ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Materials
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1476-1122,1476-4660
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3141