Abstract: Properties of nanosize PbTiO/sub 3/ are discussed from the standpoint of the effects of crystallite size on electrostrictive behavior. Experimental results based on crystallite ...

Researchers have discovered a new way to engineer thin films that change volume under an electric field. Their technique could help scientists create small, energy-efficient biomedical devices (Nature ...

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea ...

Abstract: Electrostrictive effects in complex-perovskite “relaxor” ferroelectrics (FEs) exhibit superior performance in comparison with the simple-perovskite normal FEs, such as giant electrostriction ...

1 Université de Lyon, INSA Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, CNRS, Ampère UMR5005, Villeurbanne, France 2 EA682 Laboratoire de Génie Electrique et Ferroélectricité, ...

A team of researchers has developed a new material, that when electricity is applied to it, can flex and bend forty times more than other materials in the same class, opening the way to better micro ...

Electromechanical response of solids underpins image formation mechanism of several scanning probe microscopy techniques including the piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) and electrochemical strain ...

Section of Chemistry for Technology (ChemTec), Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova and INSTM, Via Marzolo 1, Padova 35131, Italy Article Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of ...

ABSTRACT: We report in the present work a novel effect associated with deviations of laser beams when in the surroundings there is a piezoelectric ceramic subjected to high voltages. In our previous ...