Publications associées à Electroceramics

Ultrahigh Electrostrictive Effect in Lead-Free Ferroelectric Ceramics Via Texture Engineering

The electrostrictive effect, which induces strain in ferroelectric ceramics, offers distinct advantages over its piezoelectric counterpart for high-precision actuator applications, including anhysteretic behavior even at high frequencies, rapid reaction ti ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Field-induced ultrafast modulation of Rashba coupling at room temperature in ferroelectric alpha-GeTe(111)

Jan Hugo Dil

Rashba materials have appeared as an ideal playground for spin-to-charge conversion in prototype spintronics devices. Among them, alpha-GeTe(111) is a non-centrosymmetric ferroelectric semiconductor for which a strong spin-orbit interaction gives rise to g ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Sodium plating and stripping from Na-β"-alumina ceramics beyond 1000 mA/cm2

Sophia Haussener, Corsin Battaglia, Daniel Alexander Landmann

Dendrite formation limits the cycle life of lithium and sodium metal anodes and remainsa major challenge for their integration into next-generation batteries, even whenreplacing the liquid electrolyte by a solid electrolyte. Voids forming in solid metal an ...

2020

Effect of oxygen defects blocking barriers on gadolinium doped ceria (GDC) electro-chemo-mechanical properties

Paul Muralt, Robin Nigon, Ahsanul Kabir

Some oxygen defective metal oxides, such as cerium and bismuth oxides, have recently shown exceptional electrostrictive properties that are even superior to the best performing lead-based electrostrictors, e.g. lead-magnesium-niobates (PMN). Compared to pi ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Nanoionics Phenomena and Devices with Oxide Thin Films

Mahmoud Hadad

The number of studies on solid state ionic thin films (Nanoionics) has increased dramatically over last decades due to their high potential in micro and nanoscale technologies. Micro solid oxide fuel cells (micro-SOFC), and resistive switching memories (Re ...

EPFL2017

Piezoelectric response of BiFeO3 ceramics at elevated temperatures

Dragan Damjanovic

The high Curie temperature (T-C similar to 825 degrees C) of BiFeO3 has made this material potentially attractive for the development of high-T-C piezoelectric ceramics. Despite significant advances in the search of new BiFeO3-based compositions, the piezo ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2016

Green piezoelectric for autonomous smart textile

Danick Briand, Etienne Pierre Lemaire, Christopher John Borsa

In this work, the fabrication of Rochelle salt based piezoelectric textiles are shown. Structures composed of fibers and Rochelle salt are easily produced using green processes. Both manufacturing and the material itself are really efficient in terms of en ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Atomistic Modeling of Effect of Mg on Oxygen Vacancy Diffusion in alpha-Alumina

Paul Bowen, Ulrich Aschauer, Abhishek Tewari

Oxygen diffusion plays an important role in grain growth and densification during the sintering of alumina ceramics and governs high-temperature processes such as creep. The atomistic mechanism for oxygen diffusion in alumina is, however, still debated; at ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

In situ TEM study of reduction and reoxidation of NiO/ceramic composites

Quentin Thomas Jeangros

Nickel/ceramic solid oxide fuel cell anodes exhibit a dimensional instability when experiencing a reduction-oxidation cycle. As fuel is supplied on the anode side, the as-sintered nickel oxide phase (NiO) reduces to metallic Ni and then remains in this sta ...

EPFL2014

High Piezoelectric Longitudinal Coefficients in Sol-gel PZT Thin Film Multilayers

Paul Muralt, Andrea Mazzalai, Antonia Neels, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Nachiappan Chidambaram, Alex Dommann, Davide Balma

A five-layer stack of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin films with Pt electrodes was fabricated for potential applications in nanoactuator systems. The 1 mu m thick PZT films were deposited by a sol-gel technique, the platinum electrodes by sputtering. Th ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Atomistic Modeling of Processing Issues for Transparent Polycrystalline Alumina

Abhishek Tewari

Transparent polycrystalline alumina has many possible promising areas of application from jewelry and the watch industry to wave guides, energy economical lamp envelopes, and optical windows. Ultrahigh density, submicron sized grains and/or oriented micros ...

EPFL2013

Measurement of effective piezoelectric coefficients of PZT thin films for energy harvesting application with interdigitated electrodes

Paul Muralt, Andrea Mazzalai, Nachiappan Chidambaram

Interdigitated electrode (IDE) systems with lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin films play an increasingly important role for two reasons: first, such a configuration generates higher voltages than parallel plate capacitor-type electrode (PPE) structures, a ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Structure and properties of La-modified Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3 at ambient and elevated temperatures

Dragan Damjanovic

The crystal structure and property changes of sodium bismuth titanate (Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3, NBT) piezoelectric ceramics are reported as a function of La modification (0.5-2.0 at. %) and increasing temperature using high resolution x-ray diffraction, permittivit ...

American Institute of Physics2012

Broadband Dielectric Response in Hard and Soft PZT : Understanding Softening and Hardening Mechanisms

Li Jin

Lead zirconate titanate (Pb(Zr1-xTix)O3 or PZT) ferroelectric ceramics have been widely used in transducers, actuators, and sensors, since they posses high dielectric and piezoelectric properties with a relatively high temperature of operation. Commerciall ...

EPFL2011

X-ray Imaging and Analysis of 3D Microstructural Changes in Aged Ni-YSZ Anode

Jan Van Herle, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Antonin Faes

Ni-YSZ anode supports were used to fabricate test cells composed of yttria-stabilised zirconia (YSZ) electrolyte and lanthanum strontium ferrite (LSF) or lanthanum strontium manganite (LSM) / YSZ cathodes. These cells were operated at 720 °C at an average ...

2011

Dynamic fragmentation of ceramics, signature of defects and scaling of fragment sizes

Jean-François Molinari, Sarah Levy

Defects play a critical role in the dynamic fragmentation process of structural ceramics. Cracks initiate at seemingly random locations, propagate and coalesce to form fragments. The process is accompanied by stress release waves, whose influence is diffic ...

Elsevier2010

Dielectric and piezoelectric properties of PZT ceramics with anisotropic porosity

Dragan Damjanovic

Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 ceramics with homogenous, anisotropic porosity were manufactured and the influence of the anisotropic porosity on the dielectric and piezoelectric properties was studied. Image analysis allowed the quantification of the preferential orientation ...

Springer Verlag2010

High coupling materials for thin film bulk acoustic wave resonators

Janine Conde

Radio frequency (RF) filters based on bulk acoustic wave resonances in piezoelectric thin films have become indispensable components in mobile communications. The currently used material, AlN, exhibits many excellent properties for this purpose. However, i ...

EPFL2009

Subcoercive cyclic electrical loading of lead zirconate titanate ceramics I: nonlinearities and losses in the converse piezoelectric effect

Dragan Damjanovic

The converse piezoelectric response of Pb(ZrxTi1−x)O3 ceramics is investigated as a function of material composition. The effects of the crystallographic phase and different dopants on piezoelectric nonlinearity are separately examined. For a linear depend ...

2009

Softening and hardening transitions in ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 ceramics

Hysteretic and nonlinear dielectric behaviour in ferroelectric ceramics has been of interest since 1950s, when these materials found application in various electronic devices. Presently, these phenomena concern with important areas of science, technology a ...

EPFL2005