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Focusing light on flexoelectricity

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The photocurrent generated at the boundary between structural phases of bismuth ferrite reveals information on the coupling between mechanical and electrical phenomena.

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Figure 1: Generation of the photocurrent at interfaces in the mixed-phase areas.
Figure 2: The flexoelectric effect.

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  1. Sergei V. Kalinin is at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA,

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  2. Anna N. Morozovska is at the Institute of Physics, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, 46, pr. Nauky, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine,

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Kalinin, S., Morozovska, A. Focusing light on flexoelectricity. Nature Nanotech 10, 916–917 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.213

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