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Nature Materials 6, 8 - 9 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nmat1797

Ferroelectric thin-films: The emancipation of ferroelectricity

Paul Muralt1

  1. Paul Muralt is at the Laboratoire de Céramique, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland. e-mail: Paul.Muralt@epfl.ch


Contrary to bulk materials, high-resolution microscopy of ultra-thin ferroelectric films finds only a weak coupling of polarization down to unit-cell dimensions. The established theoretical picture can be resurrected by the inclusion of epitaxial strain effects.

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