Download or read book Domain Pinning Near a Single grain Boundary in Tetragonal and Rhombohedral Lead Zirconate Titanate Films written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interaction of grain boundaries with ferroelectric domain walls strongly influences the extrinsic contribution to piezoelectric activity in Pb(Zr, Ti)O3 (PZT), ubiquitous in modern transducers and actuators. However, the fundamental understanding of these phenomena has been limited by complex mechanisms originating from the interplay of atomic-level domain wall pinning, collective domain wall dynamics, and emergent mesoscopic behavior. This contribution utilizes engineered grain boundaries created by depositing epitaxial PZT films with various Zr:Ti ratio onto 24ð SrTiO3 tilt bicrystals. The nonlinear piezoelectric response and surface domain structure across the boundary are investigated using piezoresponse force microscopy whilst cross section domain structure is studied using transmission electron microscopy. The grain boundary reduces domain wall motion over a width of 800±70 nm for PZT 45:55 and 450±30 nm for PZT 52:48. Phase field modeling provides an understanding of the elastic and electric fields associated with the grain boundary and local domain configurations. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that complex mesoscopic behaviors can be explored to complement atomic-level pictures of the material system.
Download or read book Handbook On Big Data And Machine Learning In The Physical Sciences In 2 Volumes written by and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium provides a comprehensive collection of the emergent applications of big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence technologies to present day physical sciences ranging from materials theory and imaging to predictive synthesis and automated research. This area of research is among the most rapidly developing in the last several years in areas spanning materials science, chemistry, and condensed matter physics.Written by world renowned researchers, the compilation of two authoritative volumes provides a distinct summary of the modern advances in instrument — driven data generation and analytics, establishing the links between the big data and predictive theories, and outlining the emerging field of data and physics-driven predictive and autonomous systems.
Download or read book Extrinsic Contributions in Lead Zirconate Titanate Films written by Travis Peters and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis probes how extrinsic contributions affect the dielectric, piezoelectric, and ferroelectric properties of morphotropic phase boundary lead zirconate titanate (PZT) films. Secondly, the influence of grain and grain boundary microstructure on domain behavior under an electric field was investigated. Domain wall mobility via the Rayleigh Law was locally probed to investigate avalanche characteristics and the width of influence of individual grain boundaries on the nonlinear piezoelectric response. This was coupled with macroscopic characterization showing the dependence of the domain structure on the thermal stress induced from substrate clamping effects. The results guided an attempt to fabricate a self-powered, wireless PZT thin film insole sensor for applications involving balance detection to assist the elderly population. A novel lead-free flexoelectric array was also prototyped for eventual use in a self-powered force sensing device, that can harvest energy from a heel-strike via the direct flexoelectric effect. In undoped lead zirconate-titanate (PZT) films 1-2 [mu]m thick, domain walls move in clusters with a correlation length of ~ 0.5--2 [mu]m. Mapping of the piezoelectric nonlinearity via band excitation piezoresponse force microscopy (BE-PFM) showed that doping with niobium (Nb) increases the average concentration or mobility of domain walls without changing the cluster area of correlated domain wall motion. In contrast, manganese (Mn) doping reduces the contribution of mobile domain walls to the dielectric and piezoelectric responses without changing the cluster area for correlated motion. In both Nb and Mn doped films, cluster area increases as film thicknesses rise from 250 to 1250 nm while cluster density drops; this can be seen in spatial maps generated from the analysis of irreversible to reversible ratios of the Rayleigh coefficients. Next, the effect of microstructural features such as grain boundaries and triple points on the pinning of domain wall motion in perovskite PZT films was investigated. Spatial variability in the collective domain wall dynamics was assessed using non-linearity mapping via BE-PFM. Collocating the non-linearity maps with triple point locations (visualized by electron back scatter diffraction) allowed for exploration of the effect that local microstructure (e.g., grain boundary) has on domain wall motion. It was found that the extrinsic behavior varied with both the misorientation angle and the proximity to the grain boundary. The width of influence of individual grain boundaries on the motion of domain walls was a function of the character of the grain boundary; random grain boundaries exhibit deeper minima in [alpha]d/d33,initial and larger widths of influence (up to 905 nm) compared to coincident site lattice (CSL) boundaries (up to 572 nm). Additionally, triple points containing larger numbers of random boundaries exhibited non-Rayleigh behavior to greater distances, suggesting that the triple point provides either a deep potential minimum or a region where domain wall motion is unfavorable. Piezoelectric thin films were dip coated onto flexible metal substrates to investigate the dependence of macroscopic dielectric and ferroelectric properties on the coefficient of thermal expansion mismatch and substrate thickness. The bending stiffness was controlled by the thickness of the substrate. Grazing incidence x-ray diffraction displayed distinct peak splitting for Nb-doped PZT on flexible Pt, Ni, Ag, and stiff Ni substrates, where the out-of-plane d-spacing and integrated peak area for c-domains was highest with the largest film compressive stress. As expected, PZT films on stiff Si were under tensile stress and contained more in-plane domains. The dielectric permittivity was highest in PZT on stiff Si and lowest for PZT on thick Ni, while remanent polarization displayed the opposite trend, commensurate with the residual stress state as well as the resistance to bending in thick substrates as a strain-relief mechanism. The irreversible Rayleigh coefficient decreased dramatically upon poling for PZT on flexible substrates compared to PZT on stiff substrates; the [alpha][epsilon]/[epsilon]initial ratio was 56% higher in PZT on a flexible Ni substrate relative to a stiff Ni substrate at 100 Hz prior to electrical poling. This investigation distinguishes the impact of substrate flexibility from thermal expansion on ferroelectric domain mobility and provides dip coating conditions for high quality piezoelectric films on any substrate. The resulting PZT films on metal foils were employed in the fabrication of a low power insole embedded force sensor array attempting to monitor a patient's balance and weight distribution while standing, walking, or running. Flexible piezoelectric films as force sensors eliminate the need for standby energy, providing high sensitivity and flexibility in sensor array design. Lead zirconate-titanate piezoelectric films 1 [mu]m thick were dip coated onto a 25 [mu]m thick stainless steel flexible metal foil. The film displayed a 47% Lotgering factor for the 100 crystallographic direction and exhibited a high-density granular perovskite structure with little pyrochlore near the middle and bottom of the dip cast film. The films showed high remanent polarization values of +28.2 [mu]C/cm2 and -24.3 [mu]C/cm2 and typical coercive fields of 59.4 kV/cm and -56.7 kV/cm. This piezoelectric sensing array with 24 photolithographically-defined electrodes enabled the simulation of a single toe response, the ball of the foot rolling during a step response, and a heel-strike emulation response. Voltage measurements extracted from cyclic applied forces from 0 to 30 N showed a linear response with a sensitivity of -9.76 mV/N between 0 to 12 N and a nonlinear response between 12 to 30 N. The roll test provided ~100 mV responses when expected during a perpendicular and diagonal roll on four individual sensors, each with fast response times and some mixture of bending and compressive stresses. The heel-strike emulation above a single electrode exhibited a response of ~300 mV with 60 N compressive force, ~100 mV from a nearby electrode, and minimal response from electrodes further from the applied force. A discrete circuit was designed and tested on a printed circuit board for multi-channel sensing, digitization, amplification, and wireless transmission of the activation signal. Finally, a lead-free flexoelectric device was fabricated in an attempt to provide a power-source for the electronics associated with the PZT film insole sensor. Flexoelectric polarization output scales with dielectric permittivity and strain gradient; thus, it is proposed that a barrier layer capacitor with doped silicon as the conducting medium will enhance the flexoelectric coefficient via space charge polarizability. A cantilever beam was fabricated as proof of concept, which displayed a flexoelectric coefficient of 4.9 ± 0.4 [mu]C/m. Furthermore, a centrosymmetric 100 silicon wafer was processed with an anisotropic wet etchant into truncated pyramid arrays varying in size from 100s of microns to tens of microns. A dielectric passivation layer acted as the insulating region within the asymmetric barrier layer capacitor, and interfacial space charge polarizability generated effective permittivities that exceed those possible with paraelectrics. The novel centrosymmetric flexoelectric fabrication procedure exhibited here generated the capability to decrease the structure size by orders of magnitude as well, thereby increasing the flexoelectric polarization response in proportion. A scanning probe-based methodology was developed to directly measure the local converse flexoelectric response of a single pyramid with a height of 70 [mu]m. The feasibility of ferroelectric material-free flexoelectricity was analyzed via both direct and converse flexoelectric measurements at the macro-scale and nano-scale.
Download or read book Electrical Electronics Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 2240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ceramics Science and Technology Volume 2 written by Ralf Riedel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although ceramics have been known to mankind literally for millennia, research has never ceased. Apart from the classic uses as a bulk material in pottery, construction, and decoration, the latter half of the twentieth century saw an explosive growth of application fields, such as electrical and thermal insulators, wear-resistant bearings, surface coatings, lightweight armour, or aerospace materials. In addition to plain, hard solids, modern ceramics come in many new guises such as fabrics, ultrathin films, microstructures and hybrid composites. Built on the solid foundations laid down by the 20-volume series Materials Science and Technology, Ceramics Science and Technology picks out this exciting material class and illuminates it from all sides. Materials scientists, engineers, chemists, biochemists, physicists and medical researchers alike will find this work a treasure trove for a wide range of ceramics knowledge from theory and fundamentals to practical approaches and problem solutions.
Download or read book Ceramic Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Temperature Superconductors and Novel Inorganic Materials written by Gustaaf Tendeloo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into high-Tc materials demands the co-operation of physicists, chemists and materials scientists to discover the best solutions to the most important challenges presented by the field. In the fifth annual Workshop on High Temperature Superconductors and Novel Inorganic Materials Engineering, the topic is extended beyond high-Tc superconductivity to include other advanced oxide materials, mainly colossal magnetoresistance materials, which are closely related to the ceramic superconductors. This book covers the synthesis, characterisation (both structural and physical) and engineering of this class of materials.
Download or read book Domains in Ferroic Crystals and Thin Films written by Alexander Tagantsev and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At present, the marketplace for professionals, researchers, and graduate students in solid-state physics and materials science lacks a book that presents a comprehensive discussion of ferroelectrics and related materials in a form that is suitable for experimentalists and engineers. This book proposes to present a wide coverage of domain-related issues concerning these materials. This coverage includes selected theoretical topics (which are covered in the existing literature) in addition to a plethora of experimental data which occupies over half of the book. The book presents experimental findings and theoretical understanding of ferroic (non-magnetic) domains developed during the past 60 years. It addresses the situation by looking specifically at bulk crystals and thin films, with a particular focus on recently-developed microelectronic applications and methods for observations of domains with techniques such as scanning force microscopy, polarized light microscopy, scanning optical microscopy, electron microscopy, and surface decorating techniques. "Domains in Ferroic Crystals and Thin Films" covers a large area of material properties and effects connected with static and dynamic properties of domains, which are extremely relevant to materials referred to as ferroics. In other textbooks on solid state physics, one large group of ferroics is customarily covered: those in which magnetic properties play a dominant role. Numerous books are specifically devoted to magnetic ferroics and cover a wide spectrum of magnetic domain phenomena. In contrast, "Domains in Ferroic Crystals and Thin Films" concentrates on domain-related phenomena in nonmagnetic ferroics. These materials are still inadequately represented in solid state physics textbooks and monographs.
Download or read book Engineered Materials Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-09 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advances in Lead Free Piezoelectric Materials written by Jiagang Wu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically reviews the history of lead-free piezoelectric materials, including the latest research. It also addresses a number of important issues, such as new types of materials prepared in a multitude of sizes, structural and physical properties, and potential applications for high-performance devices. Further, it examines in detail the state of the art in lead-free piezoelectric materials, focusing on the pathways to modify different structures and achieve enhanced physical properties and new functional behavior. Lastly, it discusses the prospects for potential future developments in lead-free piezoelectric materials across disciplines and for multifunctional applications. Given its breadth of coverage, the book offers a comprehensive resource for graduate students, academic researchers, development scientists, materials producers, device designers and applications engineers who are working on or are interested in advanced lead-free piezoelectric materials.
Download or read book Ferroelectric Thin Films written by Masanori Okuyama and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferroelectric thin films continue to attract much attention due to their developing applications in memory devices, FeRAM, infrared sensors, piezoelectric sensors and actuators. This book, aimed at students, researchers and developers, gives detailed information about the basic properties of these materials and the associated device physics. The contributing authors are acknowledged experts in the field.
Download or read book Piezoelectric Ceramics written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ferroelectric Thin Films written by Carlos Paz de Araujo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impetus for the rapid development of thin film technology, relative to that of bulk materials, is its application to a variety of microelectronic products. Many of the characteristics of thin film ferroelectric materials are utilized in the development of these products - namely, their nonvolatile memory and piezoelectric, pyroelectric, and electro-optic properties. It is befitting, therefore, that the first of a set of three complementary books with the general title Integrated Ferroelectric Devices and Technologies focuses on the synthesis of thin film ferroelectric materials and their basic properties. Because it is a basic introduction to the chemistry, materials science, processing, and physics of the materials from which integrated ferroelectrics are made, newcomers to this field as well as veterans will find this book self-contained and invaluable in acquiring the diverse elements requisite to success in their work in this area. It is directed at electronic engineers and physicists as well as process and system engineers, ceramicists, and chemists involved in the research, design, development, manufacturing, and utilization of thin film ferroelectric materials.
Download or read book Ferroelectric Memories written by James F. Scott and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive book on ferroelectric memories which contains chapters on device design, processing, testing, and device physics, as well as on breakdown, leakage currents, switching mechanisms, and fatigue. State-of-the-art device designs are included and illustrated among the books many figures. More than 500 up-to-date references and 76 problems make it useful as a research reference for physicists, engineers and students.
Download or read book Texture and Anisotropy written by U. F. Kocks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successful book covering an important area of materials science, now available in paperback.
Download or read book Properties of Materials written by Robert E. Newnham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crystals are sometimes called 'Flowers of the Mineral Kingdom'. In addition to their great beauty, crystals and other textured materials are enormously useful in electronics, optics, acoustics and many other engineering applications. This richly illustrated text describes the underlying principles of crystal physics and chemistry, covering a wide range of topics and illustrating numerous applications in many fields of engineering using the most important materials today. Tensors, matrices, symmetry and structure-property relationships form the main subjects of the book. While tensors and matrices provide the mathematical framework for understanding anisotropy, on which the physical and chemical properties of crystals and textured materials often depend, atomistic arguments are also needed to quantify the property coefficients in various directions. The atomistic arguments are partly based on symmetry and partly on the basic physics and chemistry of materials. After introducing the point groups appropriate for single crystals, textured materials and ordered magnetic structures, the directional properties of many different materials are described: linear and nonlinear elasticity, piezoelectricity and electrostriction, magnetic phenomena, diffusion and other transport properties, and both primary and secondary ferroic behavior. With crystal optics (its roots in classical mineralogy) having become an important component of the information age, nonlinear optics is described along with the piexo-optics, magneto-optics, and analogous linear and nonlinear acoustic wave phenomena. Enantiomorphism, optical activity, and chemical anisotropy are discussed in the final chapters of the book.
Download or read book Advances in Ceramics written by Costas Sikalidis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current book consists of twenty-four chapters divided into three sections. Section I includes fourteen chapters in electric and magnetic ceramics which deal with modern specific research on dielectrics and their applications, on nanodielectrics, on piezoceramics, on glass ceramics with para-, anti- or ferro-electric active phases, of varistors ceramics and magnetic ceramics. Section II includes seven chapters in bioceramics which include review information and research results/data on biocompatibility, on medical applications of alumina, zirconia, silicon nitride, ZrO2, bioglass, apatite-wollastonite glass ceramic and b-tri-calcium phosphate. Section III includes three chapters in applications of ceramics in environmental improvement and protection, in water cleaning, in metal bearing wastes stabilization and in utilization of wastes from ceramic industry in concrete and concrete products.
