Low fracture toughness of ferroelectric ceramics calls for a reliability concern in the development of smart structures. For ferroelectrics under mechanical and electrical loadings, the intensified stress and electric fields in the vicinity of a crack-like flaw lead to domain reorientation. The switched domains induce incompatible strain near the flaw and consequently change the apparent fractu...

Objective(s): Since the electric field is the main driving force in electrospinning systems, the modeling and analysis of electric field distribution are critical to the nanofibers production. The aim of this study was modeling of the electric field and investigating the various parameters on polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibers morphology and diameter. Methods:</st...

We apply a numerical basis-state method to determine the electric susceptibility of atomic hydrogen via calculations of the terms of the perturbative power series expansion up to eleventh order as well as from ab initio calculations of the field-induced polarization. The results of the perturbative calculations indicate that the applicability of the power series expansion is limited to intensit...

Computational procedures, based on (i) the Ramsey common origin approach and (ii) the continuous transformation of the origin of the quantum mechanical current density-diamagnetic zero (CTOCD-DZ), were applied at the Hartree-Fock level to determine electric quadrupole polarizabilities of nuclear magnetic shielding for molecules in the presence of a nonuniform electric field with a uniform gradi...

Dielectrophoresis (DEP) has become a promising technique to separate and identify cells and microparticles suspended in a medium based on their size or electrical properties. Presented herein is a new technique to provide the non-uniform electric field required for DEP that does not require electrodes to contact the sample fluid. In our method, electrodes are capacitively-coupled to a fluidic c...

We call a photonic crystal tunable if its spectrum can be altered by an external electric or magnetic field. One of the two constitutive components of the proposed periodic composite structure has either electric permittivity or magnetic permeability dependent on the external electric or magnetic field. Consequently, the electromagnetic spectrum of the photonic crystal can be altered over a wid...

The spatial scrambling of upper-Stark-state (KM J,0)-selected beams of CH3F, CH3Cl, CH3Br, and CH3I in field-free space has been investigated. It has been proposed that the mechanism for spatial deorientation as the electric-field strength is reduced to zero is the change in precessional frequency and loss of spatial direction as the total angular momentum J decouples from the collapsing electr...

We report the discovery of a new class of an electric field-driven bulk phase transition due solely to dipolar interactions in a suspension under the action of a uniform ac field where the effects of other competing forces are suppressed. This transition appears after the well-known chain-column formation and causes the uniform suspension of columns to rearrange into a cellular pattern consisti...

Show that the flow of electromagnetic energy far from localized, time-dependent sources in a uniform, linear anisotropic dielectric medium is purely radial, despite the complexity of the wavefronts. Thus, the waves are transverse electromagnetic (TEM) in this region, although the electric displacement D has a longitudinal component in general. It suffices to consider sources with time dependenc...

Solutions of relativistic wave equations in superpositions of Aharonov-Bohm, magnetic, and electric fields. Abstract We present new exact solutions (in 3 + 1 and 2 + 1 dimensions) of relativistic wave equations (Klein-Gordon and Dirac) in external electromagnetic fields of special form. These fields are combinations of Aharonov-Bohm solenoid field and some additional electric and magnetic field...