Global hysteresis in ferroelectrics with incommensurate phases

1 April 1989

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Phase Transitions

Vol. 15 (2) , 143-179
https://doi.org/10.1080/01411598908206844

Abstract

A review of the basic experimental results connected with the formation of long-living metastable states in the incommensurate phases of ferroelectric crystals and related phenomena is given. The interpretation and appropriate physical mechanisms underlying the global hysteresis phenomena associated with these states are considered.

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