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Impact of negative bias on the piezoelectric properties through the incidence of abnormal oriented grains in Al0.62Sc0.38N thin films

Paul Muralt, Thomas La Grange, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Mohammad Fazel Parsapour Kolour, Xiao Di, Robin Nigon, Lukas Riemer

Sputter deposited A1ScN films with an Sc content of 38 at % were investigated by X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy to study the influence of the radio frequency (RF) bias on the growth of abnormally oriented grains (AOG). Scanning electron microsco ...

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

Analysis of Performance Instabilities of Hafnia-Based Ferroelectrics Using Modulus Spectroscopy and Thermally Stimulated Depolarization Currents

Paul Muralt, Robin Nigon

2018

Probing-models for interdigitated electrode systems with ferroelectric thin films

Paul Muralt, Robin Nigon, Trygve Magnus Raeder

2018

Characterization methodology for lead zirconate titanate thin films with interdigitated electrode structures

Paul Muralt, Robin Nigon, Trygve Magnus Raeder

The accurate evaluation of ferroelectric thin films operated with interdigitated electrodes is quite a complex task. In this article, we show how to correct the electric field and the capacitance in order to obtain identical polarization and CV loops for a ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

Internal electric fields and electrode effects in ferroelectric thin films for piezoelectric energy harvesting

Robin Nigon

The continuing decrease of power requirements of electronic circuits offers the potential to deploy wireless systems as embedded sensors for cars or industrial tools, and implanted medical devices. Harvesting ambient vibrations by an appropriate energy har ...

EPFL2017

Domain Pinning: Comparison of Hafnia and PZT Based Ferroelectrics

Paul Muralt, Robin Nigon

Even though many studies on the field cycling behavior of ferroelectric hafnium oxide have recently been published, the issue is still not fully understood. The initial increase of polarization during first cycles is explained by different theoretical and ...

Wiley2017

Converse mode piezoelectric coefficient for lead zirconate titanate thin film with interdigitated electrode

Paul Muralt, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Nachiappan Chidambaram, Ramin Matloub Aghdam, Andrea Mazzalai, Robin Nigon, Davide Balma

The use of interdigitated electrodes (IDEs) in conjunction with ferroelectric thin films shows many attractive features for piezoelectric MEMS applications. In this work, growth of {1 0 0}-textured lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin films was achieved on i ...

Institute of Physics2015

Two-Fold Odd-Even Effect in Self-Assembled Nanowires from Oligopeptide-Polymer-Substituted Perylene Bisimides

Deborah Leite, Holger Frauenrath, Roman Niklaus Marty, Robin Nigon

Organic nanowires are important building blocks for nanoscopic organic electronic devices. In order to ensure efficient charge transport through such nanowires, it is important to understand in detail the molecular parameters that guide self-assembly of pi ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014