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Piezoelectric softening by Nb substitution in (Ba,Pb)ZrO

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Donor doping is commonly applied for softening of the piezoelectric and dielectric properties and facilitation of polarization switching in the ubiquitous Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3 [PZT] ceramics. The origin of the donor-dopant effects is not entirely clear. (Pb,Ba)ZrO ...

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The goal of this thesis was to investigate light-matter interaction in nanophotonic devices based on site-controlled pyramidal quantum dots (QD) in photonic crystal (PhC) cavities. These QDs provide position and spectral control, which is hardly achievable ...

EPFL2017

TDDFT-Based Spin-Orbit Couplings of 0D, 1D, and 2D Carbon Nanostructures: Static and Dynamical Effects

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Carbon nanostructures (CNS) constitute an important class of materials derived from graphene that share remarkable photophysical and photochemical properties of potential interest for a number of technological applications, ranging from electron transport ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Does the real part contain all the physical information?

Olivier Martin

Polarisation charge formed on nanostructure surfaces upon optical excitation provides a useful tool to understand the underlying physics of plasmonic systems. Plasmonic simulations in the frequency domain typically calculate the polarisation charge as a co ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Identification of defect distribution at ferroelectric domain walls from evolution of nonlinear dielectric response during the aging process

Tomas Sluka, Pavel Mokry

The motion of ferroelectric domain walls greatly contributes to the macroscopic dielectric and piezoelectric response of ferroelectric materials. The domain-wall motion through the ferroelectric material is, however, hindered by pinning on crystal defects, ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Heuristic Description of Magnetoelectricity of Cu2OSeO3

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CuO2SeO3 is an insulating material that hosts topologically nontrivial spin whirls, so-called skyrmions, and exhibits magnetoelectric coupling allowing to manipulate these skyrmions by means of electric fields. We report magnetic force microscopy imaging o ...

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Air nonlinearity triggered by an ultra-intense 33 MV/cm and sub-5 THz light bullet

Christoph Peter Hauri, Mostafa Shalaby

We report on measurements of the instantaneous Kerr nonlinearity and the retarded alignment of non-polar molecules CO2, N-2, and O-2 by an intense, lambda-cubic terahertz pulse with peak field > 33 MV/cm centered at 3.9 THz. ...

Ieee2016

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