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Tailoring dielectric permittivity of epitaxial Gd-doped CeO2-x films by ionic defects

Engineering materials with highly tunable physical properties in response to external stimuli is a cornerstone strategy for advancing energy technology. Among various approaches, engineering ionic defects and understanding their roles are essential in tail ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Piezoelectric thin films for MEMS

Paul Muralt

AIP Publishing2023

Controlled Electronic and Magnetic Landscape in Self-Assembled Complex Oxide Heterostructures

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Paul Muralt, Kanghyun Chu, Daesung Park

Complex oxide heterointerfaces contain a rich playground of novel physical properties and functionalities, which give rise to emerging technologies. Among designing and controlling the functional properties of complex oxide film heterostructures, verticall ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Induced giant piezoelectricity in centrosymmetric oxides

Paul Muralt, Dragan Damjanovic, Mahmoud Hadad, Vasiliki Tileli, Lukas Riemer, Daesung Park

Piezoelectrics are materials that linearly deform in response to an applied electric field. As a fundamental prerequisite, piezoelectric materials must have a noncentrosymmetric crystal structure. For more than a century, this has remained a major obstacle ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2022

Self-Poled Heteroepitaxial Bi(1-x)DyxFeO3 Films with Promising Pyroelectric Properties

Paul Muralt

Pyroelectric materials are very promising for thermal energy harvesting applications. To date, lead-based systems are the foremost studied materials in this field. A facile and simple metal organic chemical vapor deposition route is applied for the fabrica ...

2022

Fabrication, Characterization, and Simulation of Glass Devices with AlN Thin-Film Transducers for Excitation of Ultrasound Resonances

Paul Muralt, Ramin Matloub Aghdam

We present the fabrication of 570-mu m-thick millimeter-sized soda-lime-silicate float-glass blocks with a 1-mu m-thick AlN thin-film piezoelectric transducer sandwiched between thin metallic electrodes and deposited on the top surface. The electromechanic ...

American Physical Society (APS)2021

Optimization of Resonant PZT MEMS Mirrors by Inverse Design and Electrode Segmentation

Paul Muralt, Ramin Matloub Aghdam

This paper presents a systematic approach to transduction optimization of resonant piezo-based MEMS devices. The method is based on inverse design approach using direct piezoelectric effect and exploits mechanical action of desired mode to calculate the po ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Guest Editorial

Paul Muralt

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2020

Actuation of piezoelectric structures with ferroelectric thin films having multiple elements

Paul Muralt

A method for driving piezoelectric elements of a micro-system. The piezoelectric elements comprising a ferroelectric thin film, and being configured to be part of any one or a combination of items of a list comprising: a cantilever, a bridge, a diaphragm, ...

2020

Resonant Pzt Mems Mirror With Segmented Electrodes

Paul Muralt, Ramin Matloub Aghdam, Mohssen Moridi

We report a transduction optimization method of piezo-based MEMS structures using segmentation of the excitation electrodes. Optimal transduction is achieved by matching the electric field distribution to the polarization distribution including the direct ...

IEEE2020