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SUBMITTER: Manley ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5026422 | biostudies-other | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Manley Michael E ME Abernathy Douglas L DL Sahul Raffi R Parshall Daniel E DE Lynn Jeffrey W JW Christianson Andrew D AD Stonaha Paul J PJ Specht Eliot D ED Budai John D JD
Science advances 20160916 9
Relaxor-based ferroelectrics are prized for their giant electromechanical coupling and have revolutionized sensor and ultrasound applications. A long-standing challenge for piezoelectric materials has been to understand how these ultrahigh electromechanical responses occur when the polar atomic displacements underlying the response are partially broken into polar nanoregions (PNRs) in relaxor-based ferroelectrics. Given the complex inhomogeneous nanostructure of these materials, it has generally ...[more]