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A comparison of the available concepts on the effect of spontaneous polarization on the height of the Schottky barrier at the metal-ferroelectric contact with the corresponding experimental data has been used as a basis for setting up an alternative model of this phenomenon, which draws on the dependence of the electron work function of a ferroelectric on the magnitude and orientation of the spontaneous polarization vector.
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Original Russian Text © V.K. Yarmarkin, S.G. Shul’man, V.V. Lemanov, 2013, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2013, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 496–499.
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Yarmarkin, V.K., Shul’man, S.G. & Lemanov, V.V. On the effect of spontaneous polarization on the height of the Schottky barrier at the metal-ferroelectric contact. Phys. Solid State 55, 547–550 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783413030323
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