https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2011-11080-1
Comment
Comment on “On the threshold characteristics of the flexoelectric domains arising in a homogeneous electric field: The case of anisotropic elasticity” by Y.G. Marinov and H.P. Hinov
1
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
2
Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O.B. 49, H-1525, Budapest, Hungary
* e-mail: alexei.krekhov@uni-bayreuth.de
** e-mail: werner.pesch@uni-bayreuth.de
Received:
6
May
2011
Revised:
28
June
2011
Accepted:
5
August
2011
Published online:
22
August
2011
It is demonstrated that the key findings of the paper by Y.G. Marinov and H.P. Hinov, Eur. Phys. J. E 31, 179–189 (2010), are in direct conflict with the general physical background of flexoelectric domains. This is caused by a methodological error in the theoretical analysis of the paper.
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