We study the origin of the magnetoelectric coupling in manganite films on ferroelectric substrates. We find large magnetoelectric coupling in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3/BaTiO3 ultra-thin films in experiments based on the converse magnetoelectric effect. The magnetization changes by around 30-40% upon applying electric fields on the order of 1 kV/cm to the BaTiO3 substrate, corresponding to magnetoelectric ...

Comparative studies of Cerium and Zirconium doped Barium Titanate S.N. Rahman, N. Khatun, S. Islam, N.A. Ahmed Industrial Physics Division, BCSIR Laboratories, Dhaka. Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) Dr. Kudrat-i-Khuda Road, Dhaka-1205, BANGLADESH. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Comparative inv...

J. L. Gao, Y. Zhi, X. F. Ren, Y. H. Liu, College of Material Science and Engineering, Shenyang Ligong University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China. Barium titanate (B aTiO3) nanoparticles were successfully synthesized by using a surfactant-assisted method. The various processing parameters, namely, th e species of surfactant, reaction temperature and micro-emusion concentration had been varied, and th...

Using density functional theory calculations, we investigate the feasibility of using silver on the perovskite A-site in high-performance lead-free piezoelectrics. The calculations show that silver atoms are ferroelectrically active and can off-center by 0.5 Å. To induce Ag ferroelctric behavior absent in pure AgNbO3 we explore solid solutions of AgNbO3 with well-known simple perovskites PbTiO3...

The properties of barium titanate (BaTiO3 , BT), such as high dielectric constant and resistivity, allow it to find numerous applications in the field of microelectronics. In this work silicon metal-insulator-semiconductor field effect transistor (MISFET) structures with BaTiO3 thin films (containing La2O3 admixture) acting as gate insulator were investigated. The films were produced by means o...

Luminescent markers play a key role in imaging techniques for life science since they provide a contrast mechanism between signal and background. We describe a new type of marker using second harmonic generation (SHG) from noncentrosymmetric BaTiO3 nanocrystals. These nanoparticles are attractive due to their stable, non-saturating and coherent signal with a femtosecond-scale response time and ...

Dielectric materials with high permittivity are strongly demanded for various technological applications. While polarization inherently exists in ferroelectric barium titanate (BaTiO3), its high permittivity can only be achieved by chemical and/or structural modification. Here, we report the room-temperature colossal permittivity (~760,000) obtained in xNd: BaTiO3 (x = 0.5 mol%) ceramics derive...

Within an ab–initio HF scheme, we use both Berry–phase calculations and supercell calculations in order to compute the dynamical charges for lattice dynamics and the electronic dielectric constant for KNbO3 and BaTiO3. Comparison with experimental data indicates that HF provides a description of the electronic properties of this material whose accuracy is of the same order as the LDA one. There...

Various fluxing materials are added to technical ceramics in an attempt to lower their sintering temperatures and make their processing economical. The effect of 0·3 wt% Li2CO3 addition on the phase, microstructure, phase transition temperatures and dielectric properties of BaTiO3 was investigated in the present study. The addition of 0·3 wt% Li2CO3 was observed to lower the optimum sintering t...

Polymer nanocomposites are a promising concept to improve energy storage density of capacitors, but realizing their hypothetical gains has proved challenging. The introduction of high permittivity fillers often leads to reduction in breakdown strength due to field exclusion, which intensifies the applied electric field within the polymer matrix near nanoparticle interfaces. This has prompted re...