Mapping Disorder in Polycrystalline Relaxors: A Piezoresponse Force Microscopy Approach

Relaxors constitute a large class of ferroelectrics where disorder is introduced by doping with ions of different size and valence, in order to maximize their useful properties in a broad temperature range. Polarization disorder in relaxors is typically studied by dielectric and scattering technique...

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Main Authors: Sergei V Kalinin, Stephen Jesse, Oleg Ovchinnikov, Brahim Dkhil, Andris Sternberg, Andrei L Kholkin, Dmitry A Kiselev, Igor K Bdikin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-10-01
Series:Materials
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/3/11/4860/