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SUBMITTER: Vlasin O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4629134 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vlasin Ondrej O Casals Blai B Dix Nico N Gutiérrez Diego D Sánchez Florencio F Herranz Gervasi G
Scientific reports 20151102
We have imaged optically the spatial distributions of ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity at the diffraction limit. Contributions to the birefringence from electro-optics--linked to ferroelectricity--as well as strain--arising from converse piezoelectric effects--have been recorded simultaneously in a BaTiO3 thin film. The concurrent recording of electro-optic and piezo-optic mappings revealed that, far from the ideal uniformity, the ferroelectric and piezoelectric responses were strikingly in ...[more]