Local piezoelectricity in SrTiO3-BiTiO3 ceramics

Piezoelectricity in Lead-Zirconate-Titanate Ceramics – Extrinsic and Intrinsic Contributions

QUANTITATIVE MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND PIEZOELECTRICITY OF HIGHLY DENSE, SUBMICRON-STRUCTURED NaNbO3 CERAMICS FROM MECHANICALLY ACTIVATED PRECURSORS

We study in this work the processing of NaNbO3 ceramics prepared in a single thermal treatment of highly reactive precursors obtained by mechanical activation of different reagents, aiming to determine optimum conditions for piezoelectric ceramics production. Pressure-less sintering at 1200oC leads to dense ceramics (<5% porosity) with poor mechanical stability, unsuitable for practical uses. D...

Geometric Currents in Piezoelectricity

As a simple model for piezoelectricity we consider a gas of infinitely many non-interacting electrons subject to a slowly timedependent periodic potential. We show that in the adiabatic limit the macroscopic current is determined by the geometry of the Bloch bundle. As a consequence we obtain the King-Smith and Vanderbilt formula up to errors smaller than any power of the adiabatic parameter. v...

Critical piezoelectricity in percolation

2014 We study the behaviour of piezoelectricity in highly heterogeneous media. The piezoelectric effect introduces a coupling between electrical and mechanical properties, which have separately different scaling behaviours. Its study therefore constitutes a priori an interesting question. This problem is also suggested by the recent development of low-density, porous piezoelectric ceramics whic...

Orthotropic Piezoelectricity in 2D Nanocellulose

The control of electromechanical responses within bonding regions is essential to face frontier challenges in nanotechnologies, such as molecular electronics and biotechnology. Here, we present Iβ-nanocellulose as a potentially new orthotropic 2D piezoelectric crystal. The predicted in-layer piezoelectricity is originated on a sui-generis hydrogen bonds pattern. Upon this fact and by using a co...