High-electromechanical performance for high-power piezoelectric applications: Fundamental, progress, and perspective

L Chen, H Liu, H Qi, J Chen - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric materials with excellent electromechanical performance are widely used as
core components in high-power applications such as ultrasonic transducers, piezoelectric …

Relaxor-based ferroelectric single crystals: Growth, domain engineering, characterization and applications

E Sun, W Cao - Progress in materials science, 2014 - Elsevier
In the past decade, domain engineered relaxor-PT ferroelectric single crystals, including (1−
x) Pb (Mg 1/3 Nb 2/3) O 3–xPbTiO 3 (PMN–PT),(1− x) Pb (Zn 1/3 Nb 2/3) O 3–xPbTiO 3 (PZN …

High performance ferroelectric relaxor-PbTiO3 single crystals: Status and perspective

S Zhang, F Li - Journal of Applied Physics, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Ferroelectrics are essential components in a wide range of applications, including ultrasonic
transducers, sensors, and actuators. In the single crystal form, relaxor-PbTiO 3 (PT) …

A conformable phased-array ultrasound patch for bladder volume monitoring

L Zhang, C Marcus, D Lin, D Mejorado… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Ultrasound can be used to image soft tissues in vivo for the early diagnosis and monitoring
of disease progression. However, conventional ultrasound probes are rigid, have a narrow …

Pyroelectric energy conversion with large energy and power density in relaxor ferroelectric thin films

S Pandya, J Wilbur, J Kim, R Gao, A Dasgupta… - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
The need for efficient energy utilization is driving research into ways to harvest ubiquitous
waste heat. Here, we explore pyroelectric energy conversion from low-grade thermal …

Single Domain Spin Manipulation by Electric Fields in Strain Coupled Artificial<? format?> Multiferroic Nanostructures

M Buzzi, RV Chopdekar, JL Hockel, A Bur, T Wu… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We demonstrate in situ 90° electric field-induced uniform magnetization rotation in single
domain submicron ferromagnetic islands grown on a ferroelectric single crystal using x-ray …

Ferroelectric polymers exhibiting negative longitudinal piezoelectric coefficient: progress and prospects

Y Liu, Q Wang - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric polymers are well‐recognized to hold great promise for a wide range of
flexible, wearable, and biocompatible applications. Among the known piezoelectric …

Processing and characterization of piezoelectric materials and integration into microelectromechanical systems

DL Polla, LF Francis - Annual review of materials science, 1998 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Piezoelectric materials have been integrated with silicon microelectromechanical
systems (MEMS) in both microsensor and microactuator applications. Thin-film materials …

Caloric effects in perovskite oxides

A Barman, S Kar‐Narayan… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Perovskite oxides show an amazing diversity of electronic and magnetic properties along
with a myriad of structural variants and phase transitions. Large thermal changes may be …

Triple-point-type morphotropic phase boundary based large piezoelectric Pb-free material—Ba (Ti0. 8Hf0. 2) O3-(Ba0. 7Ca0. 3) TiO3

C Zhou, W Liu, D Xue, X Ren, H Bao, J Gao… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We report a large piezoelectric Pb-free system—Ba (Ti 0.8 Hf 0.2) O 3-(Ba 0.7 Ca 0.3) TiO 3,
designed upon a triple-point morphotropic phase boundary (TMPB) idea. The system shows …