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The operational range of electrostatic MEMS parallel plate actuators can be extended beyond pull-in in the presence of an intermediate dielectric layer, which has a significant effect on the behavior of such actuators. Here, we study the behavior of cantil ...
The operational range of MEMS electrostatic parallel plate actuators can be extended beyond pull-in with the presence of an intermediate dielectric layer, which has a significant effect on the behaviour of such actuators. Here we study the behaviour of can ...
The presence of free charges and numerous discontinuities separating liquid, gas, and solid phases in partially saturated soils give rise to Maxwell-Wagner polarization that may significantly affect bulk dielectric permittivity measurements. Evidence sugge ...
The dielectric response of ferroelectric-dielectric composites is theoretically addressed. Dielectric permittivity, tunability (relative change of the permittivity driven by dc electric field), and loss tangent are evaluated for various composite models. T ...
Pb(Zr-x,Ti1-x)O-3 thin films of homogeneous composition were synthesized by means of a modified sol-gel route on Pt(111)/TiOx/SiO2/Si substrates. The usually observed gradient in B-site composition could be reduced from +/- 12 to +/- 12.5 at% amplitude in ...
We develop a theory for investigating atomic-scale dielectric permittivity profiles across interfaces between insulators. A local susceptibility chi(x;omega) is introduced to describe variations of the dielectric response over length scales of the order of ...
The dielectric response of a ferroelectric film with bilinear coupling between order parameter and strain is theoretically addressed. An exact solution for the total (lattice and domain contributions) dielectric permittivity of the system for the case wher ...
We discuss various decomposition schemes for analysing the dielectric constants of Zr silicates in terms of local properties. Such schemes serve the purpose of predicting the dielectric constants of amorphous alloys, when their system size precludes the po ...
The influence of film thickness on the material properties of aluminum nitride (AlN) thin films deposited on Pt(111) electrodes has been investigated experimentally by means of x-ray diffraction, dielectric response, atomic force microscopy, interferometry ...
Properties and fabrication status of microdevices for microwaves based on polar ceramics are reviewed. We discuss bulk acoustic wave devices with AlN films, rf-MEMS capacitive switches with high permittivity materials, and tunable ferroelectrics. The relev ...
