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Evidence for dielectric aging due to progressive 180 degrees domain wall pinning in polydomain Pb(Zr0.45Ti0.55)O-3 thin films

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Dragan Damjanovic, Igor Stolichnov, Pavel Mokry

An evidence that the dielectric aging in the polydomain Pb(Zr0.45Ti0.55)O-3 thin films is controlled by progressive pinning of 180 degrees domain walls is presented. To provide such a conclusion, we use a general method, which is based on the study of the ...

2009

Collective charge excitations below the metal-to-insulator transition in BaVS3

László Forró, Helmuth Berger, Ana Akrap

The charge response in barium vanadium sulfide (BaVS3) single crystals is characterized by dc resistivity and low-frequency dielectric spectroscopy. A broad relaxation mode in the megahertz range with a huge dielectric constant of approximate to 10(6) emer ...

2008

Ferroelectric-dielectric tunable composites

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev

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 ...

2006

Dynamics of actin and myosin II during cell polarization and directional locomotion

Sophie Bohnet

Crawling cell motility is characteristic of most animal cells and is involved in many important biological processes such as embryogenesis, immune response, and wound healing. It involves several steps: protrusion (dynamic surface extension) at the front o ...

EPFL2006

Theory of atomic-scale dielectric permittivity at insulator interfaces

Alfredo Pasquarello

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 ...

2005

Infrared properties of the Si-SiO2 interface from first principles

Feliciano Giustino

We study the infrared properties of the Si-SiO2 interface within a first-principles approach. In order to provide an atomic-scale description of the dielectric permittivity (both high-frequency and static) and of the infrared absorption at the interface, w ...

EPFL2005

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A theoretical study on the effect of spontaneous polarization screening on the dielectric response of ferroelectric films with 180 degrees domains going through the film thickness (through-domains) is presented. It has been shown by several researchers tha ...

2005

We present a novel approach that allows us to calculate the dielectric response of periodic systems in the quantum Monte Carlo formalism. We employ a many-body generalization for the electric-enthalpy functional, where the coupling with the field is expres ...

2005

Polarization response of Perovskite films for microwave tunable applications

Konstantin Astafiev

Ferroelectric thin films are widely studied nowadays as potential replacements for semiconductors in modern tunable microwave devices such as tunable filters, phase-shifters, frequency mixers, power dividers, etc. Recent progress in the deposition of compl ...

EPFL2004

Relaxor ferroelectric thin films exhibit a drastic reduction in the dielectric constant and associated properties in the thin film form, even for thicknesses in the micron range, which are essentially infinity for the size effects typically investigated in ...

EPFL2004