Ductile inorganic semiconductors for deformable electronics

X Li, FR Chen, Y Lu - Interdisciplinary Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Traditionally, it is relatively easy to process metal materials and polymers (plastics), while
ceramic and inorganic semiconductor materials are hard to process, due to their intrinsic …

Multislip-enabled morphing of all-inorganic perovskites

X Li, Y Meng, W Li, J Zhang, C Dang, H Wang… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
All-inorganic lead halide perovskites (CsPbX3, X= Cl, Br or I) are becoming increasingly
important for energy conversion and optoelectronics because of their outstanding …

Mechanical tailoring of dislocations in ceramics at room temperature: A perspective

X Fang - Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The potential of dislocations (line defects) in ceramics may have been greatly underrated
until most recently. Promising proofs‐of‐concept have been demonstrated for dislocation …

Theoretical insights into the Peierls plasticity in SrTiO3 ceramics via dislocation remodelling

Y Li, X Liu, P Zhang, Y Han, M Huang, C Wan - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
An in-depth understanding of the dislocations motion process in non-metallic materials
becomes increasingly important, stimulated by the recent emergence of ceramics and …

The impact of flash sintering on densification and plasticity of strontium titanate: high heating rates, dislocation nucleation and plastic flow

W Rheinheimer, XL Phuah, L Porz, M Scherer… - Journal of the European …, 2023 - Elsevier
Flash sintering involves very rapid densification of ceramic powder compacts during a
thermal runaway induced by an applied voltage and current. The mechanisms of fast …

Enhancing the photoelectric performance of metal oxide semiconductors by introduction of dislocations

H Zhang, S Gao, H Wang, F Zhuo… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Photocatalysis, a heavily researched approach to sustainable synthesis of chemicals, often
faces challenges of high cost and the use of scarce materials or low efficiency of sustainable …

Insights into the anomalous hardness of the tantalum carbides from dislocation mobility

BR Watkins, C Haas Blacksher, A Stubbers… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The tantalum carbides, TaC x, have been repeatedly shown to harden dramatically with
some loss of carbon content, then soften with further decarburization. First observed in 1963 …

Thermally enhanced dislocation density improves both hardness and fracture toughness in single‐crystal SrTiO3

MN Salem, K Ding, J Rödel… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dislocation‐tuned functionality in ceramic oxides for potential versatile applications gains
increasing attention. As the widespread chemical do** suffers from poor temperature …

[HTML][HTML] Structure evolution of the interfacial layer of BaTiO3 thin films during annealing process and related good resistive switching behaviors

Z Sun, S Huang, W Zhu, YA Birkhölzer, X Gao… - APL materials, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
BaTiO 3 thin films with different annealing times were grown on LSMO/STO (001) substrates
by pulsed laser deposition. An interesting phenomenon of loss-and-reappearance of the …

Room‐temperature bulk plasticity and tunable dislocation densities in KTaO3

X Fang, J Zhang, A Frisch, O Preuß… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We report room‐temperature bulk plasticity mediated by dislocations in single‐crystal cubic
potassium tantalate oxide (KTaO3), contrasting the conventional knowledge that single …