Ferroelectric order in individual nanometre-scale crystals
- 8 July 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Materials
- Vol. 11 (8), 700-709
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3371
Abstract
The length scale at which phenomena such as ferroelectricity is still present is of fundamental relevance for nanoscale applications. A high-resolution transmission electron microscopy study now shows how ferroelectricity can persist in nanoparticles down to about 5 nm in diameter, pointing the way towards the ultimate size limit for ferroelectric applications.This publication has 47 references indexed in Scilit:
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