TY - JOUR KW - Tuning KW - Thin films KW - Transmission electron microscopy KW - Electric fields KW - Ferroelectric materials KW - Piezoelectricity KW - Thermodynamics KW - Elastic moduli KW - Electric field tunabilities AU - L Chen AU - V Nagarajan AU - Ramamoorthy Ramesh AU - A.L Roytburd AB - Nonlinear electric field dependence of dielectric and piezoelectric properties of ferroelectric films was studied. A thermodynamic approach to describe the nonlinearity of piezoelectric response was used and quantitative characteristics of its tunability by the electric field both in bulk single crystals and in thin films was obtained. It was found that tunability is sensitive to misfit, and was possible to get different electric field tunabilities. BT - Journal of Applied Physics DO - 10.1063/1.1610242 LA - eng M1 - 8 N1 - cited By 59 N2 - Nonlinear electric field dependence of dielectric and piezoelectric properties of ferroelectric films was studied. A thermodynamic approach to describe the nonlinearity of piezoelectric response was used and quantitative characteristics of its tunability by the electric field both in bulk single crystals and in thin films was obtained. It was found that tunability is sensitive to misfit, and was possible to get different electric field tunabilities. PY - 2003 SP - 5147 EP - 5152 T2 - Journal of Applied Physics TI - Nonlinear electric field dependence of piezoresponse in epitaxial ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate thin films VL - 94 SN - 00218979 ER -