Smart dielectric materials with bioinspired and autonomous functions are expected to be
designed and fabricated for next-generation electrical insulation. Similar to organisms, such …

The continued development of ferroelectric materials into more and more consumer led
applications has been at the forefront of recent ferroelectric material research. It is, however …

Recent developments on the synthesis of networked nanostructures have added new
amplitudes for designing multifunctional devices, including sensors and UV photodetectors …

This paper deals with the application of ZnO varistors—an area which has not been treated
in a systematic way in the literature. The paper starts with a brief description of the …

Varistor Ceramics Page 1 Varistor Ceramics David R. Clarke*,** Materials Department, College
of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-5050 The …

Resistivity, Seebeck coefficient, and Hall measurements were performed on densified
nanocrystalline composite materials of undoped and Ag-doped PbTe nanocrystals to …

In ZnO quantum dot/graphene heterojunction photodetectors, fabricated by printing quantum
dots (QDs) directly on the graphene field-effect transistor (GFET) channel, the combination of …

Nontrivial capacitance behavior, including a negative capacitance (NC) effect, observed in a
variety of semiconductor devices, is discussed emphasizing the physical mechanism and …

An overview is given of zinc oxide varistors, which are made of semiconducting ceramics
with highly nonohmic current-voltage characteristics, which originate at the grain …

A detailed theoretical study of impact-ionization-related transport phenomena in SiO 2 thin
films is presented. The Boltzmann transport equation is integrated by the Monte Carlo …