Varistor effect in semiconductor ferroelectrics

Abstract
This paper treats the effect of an external field on the magnitude of potential barriers and the potential contour near a charged boundary between crystallites in polycrystalline ferroelectric semiconductors. It is shown that this effect depends on the mutual directions of the external field and the polarization in the ferroelectric bulk, and that the appearance of various types of nonlinear dependences of the current on voltage in polycrystalline ferroelectrics can be explained by the transfer of charge carriers in the fields of potential barriers with different profiles.

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