Publication Date:
2017-03-29
Description:
Author(s): J. F. Scott, F. D. Morrison, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, P. Lightfoot, Rebecca Clulow, Aurora S. A. Gherson, Alice M. Bumstead, Jonathan Gardner, Silvia C. Capelli, Michael R. Probert, Satyaprakash Sahoo, J. S. Young, R. S. Katiyar, and E. K. H. Salje We report a paradigm of ferrielectricity in a single-phase crystal, tris-sarcosine calcium chloride [TSCC; ( C H 3 NHC H 2 COOH ) 3 CaC l 2 ] . Ferrielectricity is well known in smectic liquid crystals but almost unknown in true crystalline solids. C. F. Pulvari [Ferrielectricity, Phys. Rev. 120 , 1670 (1960) ] rep… [Phys. Rev. B 95, 094119] Published Tue Mar 28, 2017
Keywords:
Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects
Print ISSN:
1098-0121
Electronic ISSN:
1095-3795
Topics:
Physics
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