ferroelectric materials

Pasta and PZT microtube preparation

By / June 8, 2010

The image above, my friends, is an example of a tiny tube of lead zirconate titanate that can be formed when you dip vermicelli into a slurry pf PZT. No,…

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Group shows hysteretic behavior of ferroelectric materials changes at nanoscale

By / May 20, 2010

A collaborative group of researchers from Oak Ridge National Lab, Penn State, the Univ. of Sheffield (U.K.) and EPFL (Switzerland) have made a discovery that overturns some 100-year-old assumptions about…

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Spectroscopic Assessments of Domain Texture in Barium Titanate: II. Cathodoluminescence Analysis

By / January 27, 2010

Volume 93 Issue 1, Pages 265 – 271 Atsuo Matsutani, Wenliang Zhu, Giuseppe PezzottiPublished Online: Sep 29 2009 11:43AM DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2009.03345.x ABSTRACT An analytical procedure has been developed according to…

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Spectroscopic Assessments of Domain Texture in Barium Titanate: I. Confocal Raman Polarization Analysis

By / January 27, 2010

Volume 93 Issue 1, Pages 256 – 264 Giuseppe Pezzotti, Atsuo Matsutani, Wenliang ZhuPublished Online: Oct 14 2009 11:42AM DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2009.03340.x ABSTRACT A three-dimensional quantitative Raman analysis of ferroelectric domain…

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New material to power tiny generators

By / October 24, 2009

Via press release from University of Wisconsin, we learn that a team of researchers has developed a piezoelectric nanogenerator and experimented with a variety of materials to power it. The…

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