Cooperative response of Pb(ZrTi)O3 nanoparticles to curled electric fields

Ivan I Naumov1, Huaxiang Fu

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA.

Physical Review Letters
|December 31, 2008
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