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High piezoelectricity via enhanced disorder

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Ultrahigh piezoelectricity in relaxor-ferroelectric ceramics is engineered by chemical and structural heterogeneities at the nanoscale.

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Fig. 1: Schematic of the polar structure and atomic-resolution images of the Sm-doped PMN-PT relaxor-ferroelectric.

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