Phase Composition Tuning of Lanthanum-Doped PMN-PT Ceramics at Morphotropic Phase Boundary

BAO Guocui; LI Kun; YANG Guang; CUI Jianing; SHI Dongliang; LAM Kwokho; FANG Bijun

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