Reconsidering the origins of Forsbergh birefringence patterns

In 1949, Forsbergh, Jr. reported spontaneous spatial ordering in the birefringence patterns seen in flux-grown BaTiO3 crystals under the transmission polarized light microscope [Phys. Rev. 76, 1187 (1949)]. Stunningly regular square-net arrays were often only found within a finite temperature window...

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Main Authors: Schilling, A, Kumar, A, McQuaid, R, Glazer, A, Thomas, P, Gregg, J
Format: Journal article
Published: American Physical Society 2016