Strong surface effect on direct bulk flexoelectric response in solids

Flexoelectric Effect in Solids

Piezoelectricity—the coupling between strain and electrical polarization, allowed 2 Zubko, Catalan, Tagantsev by symmetry in a restricted class of materials—is at the heart of many devices that permeate our daily life. Since its discovery in the 1880’s by Pierre and Jacques Curie, the piezoelectric effect has found use in everything from submarine sonars to cigarette lighters. By contrast, flex...

Strong-field perspective on high-harmonic radiation from bulk solids.

Mechanisms of high-harmonic generation from crystals are described by treating the electric field of a laser as a quasistatic strong field. Under the quasistatic electric field, electrons in periodic potentials form dressed states, known as Wannier-Stark states. The energy differences between the dressed states determine the frequencies of the radiation. The radiation yield is determined by the...

Surface-Induced Flexoelectric Domains in Asymmetrically Strong-Weak Anchored MBBA Films

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Relationship between direct and converse flexoelectric coefficients

Threshold Flexoelectric Effect in Nematic Liquid Crystal