Evolution of the Electrical Displacement and Energy Dissipation of Lead Zirconate-Titanate Ceramics under Cyclical Load by Sheng Cang, Jiankang Chen, Chunsheng Lu

“…The total strain of P51 under cyclical loading consists of elastic deformation (εije), immediate ferroelectric domain switching deformation (εijd), and time-dependent deformation (εijc). …”
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Microwave Magnetoelectric Devices by A. S. Tatarenko, M. I. Bichurin

“…Tunable microwave magnetoelectric devices based on layered ferrite-ferroelectric structures are described. The theory and experiment for attenuator, band-pass filter and phase shifter are presented. …”
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Polar vortex hidden in twisted bilayers of paraelectric SrTiO3 by Haozhi Sha, Yixuan Zhang, Yunpeng Ma, Wei Li, Wenfeng Yang, Jizhe Cui, Qian Li, Houbing Huang, Rong Yu

“…To date, all known polar vortices are present in or induced by ferroelectric materials. In this study, we find polar vortex arrays in paraelectric SrTiO3. …”
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Multiferroic Memories by Amritendu Roy, Rajeev Gupta, Ashish Garg

“…Multiferroism implies simultaneous presence of more than one ferroic characteristics such as coexistence of ferroelectric and magnetic ordering. This phenomenon has led to the development of various kinds of materials and conceptions of many novel applications such as development of a memory device utilizing the multifunctionality of the multiferroic materials leading to a multistate memory device with electrical writing and nondestructive magnetic reading operations. …”
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Increase of Curie point of BaTiO3 ceramics by stoichiometry, point defects and doping processing by Jianquan Qi, Hui Fang, Jiang Wang, Xiumei Han, Zizhou Liang, Jin Ma, Xunzhong Shang, Liuting Gu, Wanping Chen

“…The Curie point of barium titanate (BaTiO3) has been a focal point of research since the discovery of its ferroelectric properties. Exploring methods to elevate the Curie point without relying on Pb as a dopant presents fresh opportunities for lead-free dielectric and/or piezoelectric materials. …”
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Effect of Annealing Temperature on the Morphology and Piezoresponse Characterisation of Poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) Films via Scanning Probe Microscopy by K. Lau, Y. Liu, H. Chen, R. L. Withers

“…Nanoscale characterisation of the morphology, polarization switching, and local piezoresponse hysteresis loops of PVDF-TrFE film was studied using a scanning probe microscope (SPM). Ferroelectric switchable domains were identified by piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) for all films. …”
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Tailoring beam profile and OAM spectrum in domain-engineered nonlinear photonic crystals by Xinyu Zhang, Hangyu Li, Shiqiang Liu, Yan Chen, Zhihan Zhu, Hui Liu, Shining Zhu, Xiaopeng Hu

“…In this work, to meet the demands of applications such as high-capacity optical communications and high-dimensional entanglement generation, we use ferroelectric domain engineering to generate frequency-doubled light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) superposition states and with adjustable radial intensity distribution. …”
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Anisotropic Ferro- and Dielectric Properties of Textured Bi4Ti3O12 Ceramics Prepared by the Solid-State Reaction Based on Multiple Calcination by Xiangyu Mao, Wei Wang, Hui Sun, Xiaobing Chen

“…The grain-oriented BIT samples exhibit anisotropic structural, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, and dielectric properties. …”
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Stable antivortices in multiferroic ε-Fe2O3 with the coalescence of misaligned grains by Wuhong Xue, Tao Wang, Huali Yang, Huanhuan Zhang, Guohong Dai, Sheng Zhang, Ruilong Yang, Zhiyong Quan, Run-Wei Li, Jin Tang, Cheng Song, Xiaohong Xu

“…Our findings expand the range of antivortex materials into the multiferroic perovskite oxides and provide a potential opportunity for ferroelectric polarization control of antivortices.…”
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Demonstration of high-reconfigurability and low-power strong physical unclonable function empowered by FeFET cycle-to-cycle variation and charge-domain computing by Taixin Li, Xinrui Guo, Franz Müller, Sukhrob Abdulazhanov, Xiaoyang Ma, Hongtao Zhong, Yongpan Liu, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Huazhong Yang, Kai Ni, Thomas Kämpfe, Xueqing Li

“…Here, we report a ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET)-based strong PUF with high reconfigurability and low power, which leverages the FeFET cycle-to-cycle variation throughout the workflow and introduces charge-domain in-memory computing. …”
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Electric Modulus Analysis of (1 − x) PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3-(x)K1/2Bi1/2TiO3 Ceramics by Kebede Legesse, Vijaya Bhaskar Rao Poluri, Elangovan Sampandam

“…Ferroelectrics refer to groups of dielectrics having the property of spontaneous polarization. …”
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Features of Electro-Induced Periodical Structures in LiTaO3 Single Crystal and Their Interaction with Surface Acoustic Wave by Siarhei D. Barsukou, Jun Kondoh, Sergei A. Khakhomov

“…The observed difference of the electro-induced structures provides a new opportunity to control of the acoustic wave propagation in a ferroelectric substrate. The volume-existed periodical structures were induced as different electric potentials were applied to the surface arranged electrodes. …”
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A Feasibility Study for Microwave Breast Cancer Detection Using Contrast-Agent-Loaded Bacterial Microbots by Yifan Chen, Panagiotis Kosmas, Sylvain Martel

“…Motivated by these useful properties, we suggest loading a nanoscale microwave contrast agent such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) or ferroelectric nanoparticles (FNPs) onto the MTB in order to modify the dielectric properties of tissues near the agent-loaded bacteria. …”
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Charge carrier distribution in the region of charged domain walls in reduced lithium niobate by Aleksandr M. Kislyuk, Mikhail D. Malinkovich, Tatiana S. Ilina, Ilya V. Kubasov, Dmitry A. Kiselev, Andrei V. Turutin, Vladimir P. Ivanov, Alexander A. Temirov, Viktor V. Kuts, Evelina E. Maksumova

“…Charged domain walls (CDWs) in ferroelectric materials are of interest from both fundamental and applied perspectives due to their unique electrophysical properties, which differ significantly from those of the bulk material. …”
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Understanding the intrinsic piezoelectric anisotropy of tetragonal ABO3 perovskites through a high-throughput study by Fanhao Jia, Shaowen Xu, Shunbo Hu, Jianguo Chen, Yongchen Wang, Yuan Li, Wei Ren, Jinrong Cheng

“…Among the screened 123 types of perovskites, the structural tetragonality is naturally divided into two categories: normal tetragonal (c/a ratio < 1.1) and super-tetragonal (c/a ratio > 1.17), exhibiting distinct chemical features, ferroelectric, elastic, and piezoelectric properties. …”
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Dielectric Properties of Φ(BZT-BCT)-(1−Φ) Epoxy Composites with 0-3 Connectivity by P. Mishra, P. Kumar

“…Lead free ferroelectric ceramic [0.5[Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3]-0.5[(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3]]/(BZT-BCT)-epoxy composites with 0-3 connectivity (particles connected in 3 dimensions) were prepared using hand lay-up technique followed by cold pressing for different volume fractions of (BZT-BCT) ceramic powder in the epoxy polymer matrix. …”
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Fractal analysis and microstructure development PVDF based multifunctional material by Peleš-Tadić Adriana, Vuković George, Kojović Aleksandar, Stojanović Dušica, Vlahović Branislav, Obradović Nina, Pavlović Vladimir

“…PVDF based multifunctional material is attracting a great scientific interest due to its excellent piezoelectric, pyroelectric and ferroelectric properties. Such as, its properties strongly depend on synthesis procedures and obtained microstructures. …”
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Enhanced energy storage in relaxor (1-x)Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-xBaZryTi1-yO3 thin films by morphotropic phase boundary engineering by Herbert Kobald, Alexander M. Kobald, Ivana Panzic, Marco Deluca

“…Abstract Perovskites at the crossover between ferroelectric and relaxor are often used to realize dielectric capacitors with high energy and power density and simultaneously good efficiency. …”
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Strain-induced specific orbital control in a Heusler alloy-based interfacial multiferroics by Jun Okabayashi, Takamasa Usami, Amran Mahfudh Yatmeidhy, Yuichi Murakami, Yu Shiratsuchi, Ryoichi Nakatani, Yoshihiro Gohda, Kohei Hamaya

“…Herein, electric-field induced X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) is used to determine the changes in m orb by piezoelectric strain and clarify the relationship between the strain and m orb in an interfacial multiferroics system with a significant ME effect; the system consists of the Heusler alloy Co2FeSi on a ferroelectric Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 substrate. Element-specific investigations of the orbital states by operando XMCD and the local environment via extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) analysis show that the modulation of only the Fe sites in Co2FeSi primarily contributes to the giant ME effect. …”
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Plasmonic Polarization Sensing of Electrostatic Superlattice Potentials by Shuai Zhang, Jordan Fonseca, Daniel Bennett, Zhiyuan Sun, Junhe Zhang, Ran Jing, Suheng Xu, Leo He, S. L. Moore, S. E. Rossi, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, David Cobden, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, M. M. Fogler, Philip Kim, Efthimios Kaxiras, Xiaodong Xu, D. N. Basov

“…Our nanoimages unambiguously reveal that t-BN with triangular domains acts like a ferrielectric rather than a ferroelectric as claimed by many previous studies.…”
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