Publication Date:
2014-01-22
Description:
Article Morphotropic phase boundaries, which separate two competing phases of different chemical composition, are the crucial ingredient for lead-based piezoelectrics. Here, the authors show that similar enhanced properties and analogous thermotropic phase boundaries can occur in simple, lead-free ferroelectrics. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms4172 Authors: Tom T.A. Lummen, Yijia Gu, Jianjun Wang, Shiming Lei, Fei Xue, Amit Kumar, Andrew T. Barnes, Eftihia Barnes, Sava Denev, Alex Belianinov, Martin Holt, Anna N. Morozovska, Sergei V. Kalinin, Long-Qing Chen, Venkatraman Gopalan
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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