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In the last ten years significant advances have been made in our understanding and ability to compute and predict properties of ferroelectrics and piezoelectrics using fundamental physics. Phase diagrams, electromechanical and elastic…
We review basic computational techniques for simulations of various magnetic properties of solids. Several applications to compute magnetic anisotropy energy, spin wave spectra, magnetic susceptibilities and temperature dependent…
Piezoelectricity of some materials has shown to have many applications, in particular in energy harvesting. Due to the inherent hysteresis in the characteristic of such materials, a number of hysteretic models have been proposed minding the…
We express the link between conductivity and coefficients of Seebeck, Nernst-Ettingshausen, Peltier, and Thompson and Reghi-Leduc via the temperature derivative of the chemical potential of a system. These general expressions are applied to…
Short review on advanced superconducting circuits and devices.
Carbon nanotubes have emerged as a possible new material for electronic applications. They show promising characteristics for transistors as well as for interconnects. Here we review their basic properties and focus on the status of…
Short review of the topical comprehension of the superconductor materials classes Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductors, other oxide superconductors, Iron-based Superconductors, Heavy-Fermion Superconductors, Nitride Superconductors,…
We study electron transport in composite ferroelectrics --- materials consisting of metallic grains embedded in a ferroelectric matrix. Due to its complex tunable morphology the thermodynamic properties of these materials can be essentially…
The recent discovery of giant electrostrictors has re-ignited the interest in electrostriction, an electromechanical coupling existing in all dielectrics but overshadowed by its linear counterpart: piezoelectricity. In this review, after a…
Piezoelectric actuators have been widely used to form a self-monitoring smart system to do Structural health monitoring (SHM). One of the most fundamental issues in using actuators is to determine the actuation effects being transferred…
There is an increasing reliance on mathematical modelling to assist in the design of piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers since this provides a cost-effective and quick way to arrive at a first prototype. Given a desired operating envelope…
Within the ever-evolving landscape of engineering, particularly in the dynamic domain of additive In manufacturing, a pursuit of precision and excellence in production processes takes centre stage. This research , This paper serves to give…
This work deals with the modelling and simulation of curing phenomena in adhesively bonded piezo metal composites which consist of an adhesive layer with integrated piezoelectric module and two surrounding metal sheet layers. In a first…
Piezoelectrics are materials that linearly deform in response to an applied electric field. As a fundamental prerequisite, piezoelectric material must possess a non centrosymmetric crystal structure. For more than a century, this remains…
Piezoresistivity is the most commonly used sensing principle in cement-based smart composites for strain-monitoring applications. Nonetheless, the need for external electric power to conduct electrical resistivity measurements restricts the…
The evolution of both information and energy technology is intimately connected to complex condensed matter systems, the properties of which are determined by electronic and chemical interactions and processes on a broad range of length and…
The physical principles motivating the Z-scanning laser photoreflectance technique are discussed. The technique is shown to provide a powerful non-contact means to unambiguously characterize electronic transport properties in…
A modified model of metal-semiconductor contacts is applied to analyze the capacitance-voltage and current-voltage characteristics of metal-ferroelectric-metal structures. The ferroelectric polarization is considered as a sheet of surface…
The electrical properties of thin TiO2 films have recently been extensively exploited towards enabling a variety for metal-oxide electron devices: unipolar/bipolar semiconductor devices and/or memristors. In such efforts, investigations on…
An integrated and automated smart structures approach for structural health monitoring is presented, utilizing an array of piezoelectric transducers attached to or embedded within the structure for both actuation and sensing. The system…