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The ongoing search for new piezoelectric materials offering adequate balance between piezoelectric response and other application-relevant properties has lead to the investigation of various alloy systems. In this work we study the alloy of…
Multi-principal element alloys open large composition spaces for alloy development. The large compositional space necessitates rapid synthesis and characterization to identify promising materials, as well as predictive strategies for alloy…
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