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The macroscopic properties of ferroelectric materials depend directly on the domain configuration and the structure of the domain boundaries. For this reason, their study is of great scientific and technological interest. Several models have been developed ...
The piezoelectric properties of the bismuth titanate niobate Bi7Ti4NbO21 have been studied. The two phase transitions at 677 degrees and 856 degrees C are analyzed based on the measured piezoelectric properties. It is shown that the Bi7Ti4NbO21 compound is ...
The effective piezoelectric coefficient e(31) has been measured on sol-gel processed Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O-3 thin films with Zr concentrations ranging from 45 to 60%. The largest value was observed at 45% Zr, although dielectric constant and effective d(33) peak a ...
The authors present structural and resistivity studies of the melt-spun Al-Mn (10-20 at.% Mn) alloys which contain more than 50 vol.% of the quasicrystalline (QC) phase. Using a two-phase Landauer model, they estimate the electrical resistivity of the QC p ...
Transparent single crystals of the perovskite Pb(Zn-1/3,Nb-2/3)O-3-PbTiO3 (PZN-PT) were grown from different lead fluxes in sealed platinum crucibles. A temperature gradient furnace was used (temperature gradient on crucible: 30-50 degreesC). Optimization ...
A study was conducted on the effects of microstructure, atmosphere, and several dopants on the electrical conductivity of bismuth titanate (Bi4Ti3O12, BIT), Increased grain size increased the conductivity in undoped BIT as did acceptor dopants that substit ...
The self-polarization effect is investigated in Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3 (PZT) thin films deposited by sol-gel and magnetron sputtering techniques. The effective piezoelectric coefficient of as-grown films, which is proportional to their initial polarization (self-pol ...
The switching, fatigue and rejuvenation phenomena of ferroelectric PZT thin films with differently processed electrode-PZT interfaces and of different thicknesses have been investigated. The ferroelectric contribution to the switching parameters has been i ...
A phase diagram based on dielectric-permittivity-versus-temperature measurements and high-temperature X-ray diffractometry was proposed for 0.4Pb(Ni-1/3,Nb-1/3) O-3-xPbZrO(3)-(0.6-x)PbTiO3, (0.2 less than or equal to x less than or equal to 0.32) relaxor-f ...
