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Triboelectric effect

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Spin-Reorientation-Driven Linear Magnetoelectric Effect in Topological Antiferromagnet Cu3TeO6

Helmuth Berger

The search for new materials for energy -efficient electronic devices has gained unprecedented importance. Among the various classes of magnetic materials driving this search are antiferromagnets, magnetoelectrics, and systems with topological spin excitat ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Size dependence of second-harmonic scattering from nanoparticles: Disentangling surface and electrostatic contributions

Sylvie Roke, Arianna Marchioro, Bingxin Chu

Polarimetric angle-resolved second-harmonic scattering (AR-SHS) is an all-optical tool enabling the study of unlabeled interfaces of nano-sized particles in an aqueous solution. As the second harmonic signal is modulated by interference between nonlinear c ...

AIP Publishing2023

Metal-wire-embedded alumina insulating material using micro- and nanoscale 3D printing for surface flashover mitigation in a vacuum

Guang-Yu Sun

A micro- and nanoscale 3D printing technique is applied to fabricate a functional insulating material that mitigates surface discharge in a vacuum based on microscopic electron multipactor suppression. The proposed alumina ceramic insulator design consists ...

2022

Study of the enhanced electricity output of a sliding droplet-based triboelectric nanogenerator for droplet sensor design

Jürgen Brugger, Xia Liu, Wei Xu

Triboelectric nanogenerators are establishing themselves as promising candidates for realizing high-efficient energy harvesting from largely available droplets. However, the conventional droplet-based liquid-solid triboelectric nanogenerator (DLS-TENG) has ...

Elsevier2022

High-efficiency super-elastic liquid metal based triboelectric fibers and textiles

Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan, Yunpeng Qu, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Andreas Leber, Chaoqun Dong, Nicola Bartolomei, Rajasundar Chandran, Marco Volpi

Fibers that harvest mechanical energy via the triboelectric effect are excellent candidates aspower sources for wearable electronics and functional textiles. Thus far however, their fab-rication remains complex, and exhibited performances are below the sta ...

Nature Research2020

Ionizing-Radiation Response and Low-Frequency Noise of 28-nm MOSFETs at Ultrahigh Doses

Christian Enz

Total ionizing dose (TID) mechanisms are investigated in 28-nm MOSFETs via dc static and low-frequency noise measurements. nMOSFETs and pMOSFETs are irradiated up to 1 Grad(SiO2) and annealed at high temperatures. TID sensitivity depends on the channel len ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Triboelectric effect to harness fluid flow energy

Danick Briand, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque

We are reporting energy scavenging from fluid flows inside tubular structures using triboelectric effects. Two separate designs of triboelectric generators are proposed. A tubular design that uses liquid-solid interaction mechanism for water, and freestand ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Wearable Triboelectric Generator based on a Hybrid Mix of Carbon Nanotube and Polymer Layers

Jürgen Brugger

A novel single-layer structured triboelectric generator (TEG) is proposed with a hybrid mix of carbon nanotube (CNT) and silk. Here, the mixing of two materials in liquid phase for proven effective power generation is shown. In this research, CNT provides ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Evaluating Charge Equilibration Methods To Generate Electrostatic Fields in Nanoporous Materials

Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Peter George Boyd, Özge Kadioglu

Charge equilibration (Qeq) methods can estimate the electrostatic potential of molecules and periodic frameworks by assigning point charges to each atom, using only a small fraction of the resources needed to compute density functional (DFT)-derived charge ...

2019

Transferable Machine-Learning Model of the Electron Density

Michele Ceriotti, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Alberto Fabrizio, David Mark Wilkins, Benjamin André René Meyer, Andrea Grisafi

The electronic charge density plays a central role in determining the behavior of matter at the atomic scale, but its computational evaluation requires demanding electronic-structure calculations. We introduce an atom-centered, symmetry-adapted framework t ...

2019

Dielectric Actuation Techniques at the Nanoscale: Piezoelectricity and Flexoelectricity

Kaitlin Marie Howell

Micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) have long shown their potential to disrupt the established technologies. Over the past 15 years, MEMS have become fundamental components in filters, accelerometers, gyroscopes and gas sensors. MEMS are n ...

EPFL2019

Physics and applications of charged domain walls

Alexander Tagantsev, Tomas Sluka, Petr Yudin, Petr Bednyakov

The charged domain wall is an ultrathin (typically nanosized) interface between two domains; it carries bound charge owing to a change of normal component of spontaneous polarization on crossing the wall. In contrast to hetero-interfaces between different ...

2018

Grain boundaries and quantum transport in monolayer MoS2

Kolyo Marinov

The growing research on two-dimensional materials reveals their exceptional physical properties and enormous potential for future applications and investigation of advanced physics phenomena. They represent the ultimate limit in terms of active channel thi ...

EPFL2018

A transparent silk-fibroin-based triboelectric microgenerator for airflow energy harvesting

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang

We present a new transparent high-performance triboelectric microgenerator (TEMG) based on an emerging material, silk fibroin. Silk fibroin has a strong ability to lose electrons and occupies a top-level positive position in the triboelectric series. It th ...

IEEE Xplore2017

Contact potentials, Fermi level equilibration and surface charging

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo

This paper focuses on contact electrification from thermodynamic equilibration of the electron electrochemical potentials of two conductors upon contact. The contact potential difference generated in bimetallic macro- and nanosystems, the Fermi level after ...

American Chemical Society2016

Model for charge/discharge-rate-dependent plastic flow in amorphous battery materials

William Curtin, Seyed Mostafa Khosrownejad

Plastic flow is an important mechanism for relaxing stresses that develop due to swelling/shrinkage during charging/discharging of battery materials. Amorphous high-storage capacity Li-Si has lower flow stresses than crystalline materials but there is evid ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Penciling A Triboelectric Power Source On Paper

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang

We present a novel triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) based on a paper-Teflon configuration fabricated by an easy and cost-efficient process. Carbon electrodes were hand-drawn by means of a graphite pencil on commercial paper cards, and the conductivity wa ...

Ieee2016

Implications of Charge Penetration for the Heteroatom-Containing Organic Semiconductors

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Ganna Gryn'ova

The non-covalent interactions of neutral π-conjugated cores, pertinent to organic semiconductor materials, are intimately related to their charge transport properties and involve a subtle interplay of dispersion, Pauli repulsion and electrostatic contribut ...

2016

Charging and Discharging at the Nanoscale: Fermi Level Equilibration of Metallic Nanoparticles

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Manuel Alejandro Méndez Agudelo, Evgeny Smirnov, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon

The redox properties of metallic nanoparticles are discussed, in particular the relationships between excess charge, size and the Fermi level of the electrons. The redox potentials are derived using simple electrostatic models to provide a straightforward ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Upper bounds for flexoelectric coefficients in ferroelectrics

Alexander Tagantsev, Petr Yudin

Flexoelectric effect is the response of electric polarization to the mechanical strain gradient. At the nano-scale, where large strain gradients are expected, the flexoelectric effect becomes appreciable and may substitute piezoelectric effect in centrosym ...

American Institute of Physics2014