Phase separation and electrical switching between two isosymmetric multiferroic phases in tensile strained BiFeO3 thin films
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Jin Hong Lee,1 Kanghyun Chu,1 Ahmet A. Ünal,2 Sergio Valencia,2 Florian Kronast,2 Stefan Kowarik,3 Jan Seidel,4 and Chan-Ho Yang1,5,* 1Department of Physics, KAIST, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea 2Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Elektronenspeicherring BESSY II, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany 3Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Newtonstrasse 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany 4School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia 5KAIST Institute for the NanoCentury, KAIST, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea (Received 20 November 2013; revised manuscript received 19 March 2014; published 18 April 2014)
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