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Piezoelectric Properties of BiFeO3 Exposed to High Temperatures

BiFeO3 is a ferroelectric with a Curie temperature of 830 C-degrees, however, its piezoelectric performance at high temperature remains unclear. The current work reveals a disappearance/recovery of piezoelectricity in BiFeO3 at elevated temperature and upo ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

The autoregressive neural network architecture of the Boltzmann distribution of pairwise interacting spins systems

Indaco Biazzo

Autoregressive Neural Networks (ARNNs) have shown exceptional results in generation tasks across image, language, and scientific domains. Despite their success, ARNN architectures often operate as black boxes without a clear connection to underlying physic ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Ferroelectric Effects Probed by in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy

Reinis Ignatans

Ferroelectric perovskite oxides are widely used in sensors, actuators and optical modulators and, at the same time, they show promise for implementation in future applications such as energy storage, memory and cooling devices. At the infancy of the discov ...

EPFL2022

Relaxation time shift of Cobalt related internal friction peak in WC-Co cemented carbide

Daniele Mari, Samy Adjam, Lucas Eric Jacques Degeneve

Cemented carbides are widely used in the cutting tools industry for their mechanical properties. They are composite materials made of hard tungsten carbide grains jointed together by a ductile cobalt binder. Due to the extreme conditions of use of the tool ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Defect-induced magnetism in homoepitaxial SrTiO3

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Daesung Park

Along with recent advancements in thin-film technologies, the engineering of complex transition metal oxide heterostructures offers the possibility of creating novel and tunable multifunctionalities. A representative complex oxide is the perovskite stronti ...

AIP Publishing2022

Intrinsic switching in Si-doped HfO2: A study of Curie-Weiss law and its implications for negative capacitance field-effect transistor

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Ali Saeidi, Matteo Cavalieri, Teodor Rosca, Carlotta Gastaldi, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei, Eamon Patrick O'Connor

HfO2-based ferroelectrics are considered a promising class of materials for logic and memory applications due to their CMOS compatibility and ferroelectric figures of merit. A steep-slope field-effect-transistor (FET) switch is a device for logic applicati ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

The adaptive interpolation method for proving replica formulas. Applications to the Curie-Weiss and Wigner spike models

Nicolas Macris, Jean François Emmanuel Barbier

In this contribution we give a pedagogic introduction to the newly introduced adaptive interpolation method to prove in a simple and unified way replica formulas for Bayesian optimal inference problems. Many aspects of this method can already be explained ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

New spiral beam screen design for the FCC-hh injection kicker magnet

Agnieszka Chmielinska

The injection kicker system for the Future Circular Collider (FCC-hh) must satisfy demanding requirements. To achieve low pulse ripple and fast field rise and fall times, the injection system will use ferrite loaded transmission line type magnets. The beam ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Magnetic ground state of the frustrated spin-1/2 chain compound beta-TeVO4 at high magnetic fields

Helmuth Berger, Jonathan White

Frustrated spin-1/2 chains, despite the apparent simplicity, exhibit a remarkably rich phase diagram comprising vector-chiral (VC), spin-density-wave (SDW), and multipolar/spin-nematic phases as a function of the magnetic field. Here we report a study of b ...

2019

Optimization of the Beam Screen for the FCC Injection Kicker Magnets

Agnieszka Chmielinska

The Future Circular Collider for hadrons (FCC-hh) is a proposed high-energy frontier particle accelerator, which would be built in a new ~100 km circumference tunnel and would enable proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 100 TeV. The basel ...

EPFL2019

Study and Characterization of Magnetic Materials for Beam Intensity Monitors at CERN

Silvia Aguilera Murciano

The number of particles in the beams used at CERN is measured by a family of devices called the Beam Current Transformers (BCTs). One of such devices is the DC Current Transformer (DCCT) measuring the total number of particles in an accelerator. The DCCT i ...

EPFL2018

The thermal triple-axis-spectrometer EIGER at the continuous spallation source SINQ

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow

EIGER is the new thermal triple-axis-spectrometer at the continuous spallation SINQ at PSI. The shielding of the monochromator consists only of non- or low magnetizable materials, which allows the use of strong magnetic fields with the instrument. This shi ...

Elsevier2017

High diffusion barrier and piezoelectric nanocomposites based on polyvinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene copolymer and hydrophobized clay

Yves Leterrier, Dragan Damjanovic, Antonia Neels, Sara Dalle Vacche, Alex Dommann, Olha Sereda

Nanocomposites based on polyvinylidene fluoride– trifluoroethylene copolymer and up to 4 vol % of hydrophobized clay nanoparticles are investigated. The structure, piezoelectric properties, and oxygen permeability of solvent cast films are analyzed before ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Synthesis and Physical Properties of 3d, 4d and 5d Transition Metal Compounds

Lin Yang

In this thesis I study the synthesis and basic physical properties characterization on 3

d

, 4

d

and 5

d

transition metal compounds. Great success has been obtained in 3

d

transition metal compounds, in which the electric states are well localized due t ...

EPFL2017

Origins of the macroscopic symmetry breaking in centrosymmetric phases of perovskite oxides

Sina Hashemi Zadeh

Many perovskite materials experience a temperature-driven phase transition at the Curie temperature from a non-centrosymmetric polar ferroelectric phase to a paraelectric phase, where polarization is lost. The paraelectric phase is usually centrosymmetric ...

EPFL2017

Magnetic-photoconductive material, magneto-optical data storage device, magneto-optical data storage system, and light-tunable microwave components comprising a photoconductive-ferromagnetic device

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Bálint Náfrádi

The present invention concerns a magnetic-photoconductive material including orientable magnetic moments or spins, the material being configured to generate photo-carriers permitting to orientate or re-orientate the magnetic moments or spins at a material ...

2016

Piezoelectric enhancement under negative pressure

Alexander Tagantsev, Nava Setter, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Tomas Sluka, Jin Wang, Alexander Kvasov

Enhancement of ferroelectric properties, both spontaneous polarization and Curie temperature under negative pressure had been predicted in the past from first principles and recently confirmed experimentally. In contrast, piezoelectric properties are expec ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Energetics and thermodynamics of α-iron from first-principles and machine-learning potentials

Daniele Dragoni

Iron is a material of fundamental importance in the industrial and economic processes of our society as it is the major constituent of steels. With advances in computational science, much progress has been made in the understanding of the microscopic mecha ...

EPFL2016

Experimental and first-principles study of point defects, domain walls, and point-defect/domain-wall interactions in ferroelectric oxides

Anand Chandrasekaran

Ferroelectric oxides, such as lead zirconate titanate, have proved invaluable due to their excellent dielectric and piezoelectric properties. These classes of materials possess a large electric polarization below the Curie temperature. Regions of the cryst ...

EPFL2016

Piezoelectric response of BiFeO3 ceramics at elevated temperatures

Dragan Damjanovic

The high Curie temperature (T-C similar to 825 degrees C) of BiFeO3 has made this material potentially attractive for the development of high-T-C piezoelectric ceramics. Despite significant advances in the search of new BiFeO3-based compositions, the piezo ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2016