Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Li F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5187463 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Fei F Zhang Shujun S Yang Tiannan T Xu Zhuo Z Zhang Nan N Liu Gang G Wang Jianjun J Wang Jianli J Cheng Zhenxiang Z Ye Zuo-Guang ZG Luo Jun J Shrout Thomas R TR Chen Long-Qing LQ
Nature communications 20161219
The discovery of ultrahigh piezoelectricity in relaxor-ferroelectric solid solution single crystals is a breakthrough in ferroelectric materials. A key signature of relaxor-ferroelectric solid solutions is the existence of polar nanoregions, a nanoscale inhomogeneity, that coexist with normal ferroelectric domains. Despite two decades of extensive studies, the contribution of polar nanoregions to the underlying piezoelectric properties of relaxor ferroelectrics has yet to be established. Here we ...[more]