Oxygen-vacancy ordering as a fatigue mechanism in perovskite ferroelectrics

We present a paradigm for fatigue in ferroelectric perovskite oxides: That of a structural phase transition in which oxygen vacancies order into two-dimensional planar arrays capable of pinning domain wall motion.

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