Bipolar loop-like non-volatile strain in the (001)-oriented Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 single crystals

Lifeng Yang1, Yonggang Zhao1, Sen Zhang2

  • 11] Department of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China [2] Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100084, P. R. China.

Scientific Reports
|April 5, 2014
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