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Super-Crystals in Composite Ferroelectrics

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In this chapter, in Sect. 7.1, we report the discovery of spontaneous polarization “Super-crystals” in microstructured disordered ferroelectric samples, published in the article ’Super-crystals in composite ferroelectrics’, Nature Communications 7, 10674 (2016).

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Di Domenico, G. (2019). Super-Crystals in Composite Ferroelectrics. In: Electro-optic Photonic Circuits. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23189-7_7

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