Thermooptical evidence of carrier-stabilized ferroelectricity in ultrathin electrodeless films

O Pacherova1, D Chvostova1, T Kocourek1

  • 1Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 2, 18221, Prague, Czech Republic.

Scientific Reports
|June 2, 2018
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