Publications by Dragan Damjanovic

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Towards the use of UHPFRC in railway bridges: the rehabilitation of Buna Bridge

In the last decade, Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced cement-based Composites (UHPFRC) have been increasingly implemented for rehabilitation and strengthening purposes, rendering outstanding results. The ease of application, along with their superior ...

CRC PRESS-TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP2019

Effect of interfacial interactions on the electromechanical response of poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene)/BaTiO3 composites and its time dependence after poling

Jan-Anders Edvin Maansson, Véronique Michaud, Yves Leterrier, Dragan Damjanovic, Sara Dalle Vacche

Solvent cast and compression molded composite films based on poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene), containing pristine and silylated BaTiO3 particles, were poled, and their electromechanical response (d(33)), their dielectric properties, and the cry ...

Elsevier2015

Strong ferroelectric domain-wall pinning in BiFeO3 ceramics

Nava Setter, Dragan Damjanovic, Marija Kosec

We have studied the polarization-electric-field hysteresis, the dielectric permittivity dispersion, the piezoelectric properties, the electric-field-induced strain, and the interrelations between these properties for bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) ceramics. The ...

American Institute of Physics2010

Determination of depolarization temperature of (Bi1/2Na1/2)TiO3-based lead-free piezoceramics

Dragan Damjanovic

The depolarization temperature T-d of piezoelectric materials is an important figure of merit for their application at elevated temperatures. Until now, there are several methods proposed in the literature to determine the depolarization temperature of pie ...

American Institute of Physics2011

Origins of electro-mechanical coupling in polycrystalline ferroelectrics during subcoercive electrical loading

Dragan Damjanovic

The electromechanical coupling in ferroelectric materials is controlled by several coexisting structural phenomena which can include piezoelectric lattice strain, 180 degrees and non-180 degrees domain wall motion, and interphase boundary motion. The struc ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

Substrate Clamping Effects on Irreversible Domain Wall Dynamics in Lead Zirconate Titanate Thin Films

Dragan Damjanovic

The role of long-range strain interactions on domain wall dynamics is explored through macroscopic and local measurements of nonlinear behavior in mechanically clamped and released polycrystalline lead zirconate-titanate (PZT) films. Released films show a ...

American Physical Society2012

Electric-Field-Induced Domain Switching and Domain Texture Relaxations in Bulk Bismuth Ferrite

Dragan Damjanovic

Bismuth ferrite, BiFeO3, is an important multiferroic material that has attracted remarkable attention for potential applications in functional devices. While thin films of BiFeO3 are attractive for applications in nanoelectronics, bulk polycrystalline BiF ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Charge migration in Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 ceramics and its relation to ageing, hardening and softening

Dragan Damjanovic

The dielectric response of hard (Fe-doped) and soft (Nb-doped) rhombohedral Pb(Zr0.58Ti0.42)1−xMexO3 (Me=Fe or Nb) ceramics was studied at subswitching conditions over a wide range of temperatures (50– 450 °C) and frequencies (10 mHz to 10 kHz). The result ...

2010

Comments on origins of enhanced piezoelectric properties in ferroelectrics

Dragan Damjanovic

This review discusses recent advances in understanding origins of large piezoelectric properties in some ferroelectric materials. In particular, it addresses the role of polarization rotation and monoclinic phases. It is suggested that the polarization rot ...

2009

Structure and properties of Fe-modified Na_{0.5}Bi_{0.5}TiO_{3} at ambient and elevated temperature

Dragan Damjanovic

Sodium bismuth titanate (NBT) ceramics are among the most promising lead-free materials for piezoelectric applications. This work reports the crystal structure and phase evolution of NBT and Fe-modified NBT (from 0-2 at.% Fe) using synchrotron x-ray diffra ...

2012

“Forbidden” Polarisation and Extraordinary Piezoelectric Effect in Organometallic Lead Halide Perovskites

László Forró, Dragan Damjanovic, Endre Horvath, Márton Kollár, Lukas Riemer, Milica Vasiljevic

Organometallic lead halide perovskites are highly efficient materials for solar cells and other optoelectronic applications due to their high quantum efficiency and exceptional semiconducting properties. A peculiarity of these perovskites is the substantia ...

2022

Enhancement of the piezoelectric response of tetragonal perovskite single crystals by uniaxial stress applied along the polar axis: A free-energy approach

Nava Setter, Dragan Damjanovic, Marko Budimir

The influence of the uniaxial bias stress on the piezoelectric properties of tetragonal BaTiO3 and PbTiO3 monodomain crystals is modeled in the framework of the phenomenological Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire theory. It is shown that tensile and compressive st ...

2005

Strain generation and energy-conversion mechanisms in lead-based and lead-free piezoceramics

Dragan Damjanovic

Piezoelectric ceramics generate strain through the intrinsic piezoelectric effect, the motion of ferroelectric domain walls, or through field-induced phase transitions. The enhanced piezoelectric properties observed in morphotropic solid solutions arise fr ...

2018

Recent Advances in Piezoelectric Materials for Electromechanical Transducer Applications

Dragan Damjanovic

Ferroelectricity has made a huge impact on science and technology since Joseph Valasek (then a Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota) discovered it in 1920, a little longer than 100 years ago. Whereas Dr. Valasek's original research was motivated by ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Induced polarization imparts piezoelectricity in noncrystalline polymer films

Dragan Damjanovic

Piezoelectric materials produce a linear deformation in response to an applied electric field and are essential for precision-control devices. The conventional view is that polymers must be crystalline and possess remanent polarization after artificial pol ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

Intrinsic-Strain Engineering by Dislocation Imprint in Bulk Ferroelectrics

Dragan Damjanovic

We report an intrinsic strain engineering, akin to thin filmlike approaches, via irreversible hightemperature plastic deformation of a tetragonal ferroelectric single-crystal BaTiO3. Dislocations wellaligned along the [001] axis and associated strain field ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Structure and the Electrical Properties of Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 - Zirconia Composites

Dragan Damjanovic, Marija Kosec

In this work, the effect of introducing tetragonal yttria-stabilized zirconia (TZ) particles in soft [Pb0.98Ba0.01][(Zr0.53Ti0.47)(0.98)Nb-0.02]O-3 (PZT) was investigated. Both microstructure and electrical properties of the PZT-xTZ (x = 0, 2, 5, 10, 20 vo ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Domain wall contributions to the properties of piezoelectric thin films

Dragan Damjanovic

In bulk ferroelectric ceramics, extrinsic contributions associated with motion of domain walls and phase boundaries are a significant component of the measured dielectric and piezoelectric response. In thin films, the small grain sizes, substantial residua ...

2007

Piezoelectric nonlinearity and frequency dispersion of the direct piezoelectric response of BiFeO3 ceramics

Dragan Damjanovic, Marija Kosec

We report on the frequency and stress dependence of the direct piezoelectric d33 coefficient in BiFeO3 ceramics. The measurements reveal considerable piezoelectric nonlinearity, i.e., dependence of d33 on the amplitude of the dynamic stress. The nonlinear ...

American Institute of Physics2012

Role of charged defects on the electrical and electromechanical properties of rhombohedral Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 with oxygen octahedra tilts

Dragan Damjanovic

Oxygen octahedra tilting is a common structural phenomenon in perovskites and has been subject of intensive studies, particularly in rhombohedral Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT). Early reports suggest that the tilted octahedra may strongly affect the domain switching be ...

Amer Physical Soc2016