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A measurement of the longitudinal polarization of the electron beam at HERA utilizing coherent interactions of high energy photons in crystals is proposed. Modification of existing facilities would allow an independent polarization…

The electromagnetic calorimeter of PANDA at the FAIR facility will rely on an operation of lead tungstate (PWO) scintillation crystals at temperatures near -25 deg.C to provide sufficient resolution for photons in the energy range from 8…

The study of pyroelectric response of monocrystalline TGS cubic specimens to changes of temperature induced by linear and pulse heating of three mutually perpendicular pairs of cube sides demonstrated a complicated structure of signals. We…

Seebeck-Voltage measurements of Cobalt-based oxide-composites containing rare-earth elements (RE= Nd, Y, Gd, Ce) were performed under high temperature gradients up to 700 K. Several dependences were measured, Seebeeck voltage as a function…

We have studied the temperature dependence of the photoemission spectra of Pr$_{1-x}$Ca$_x$MnO$_3$ (PCMO) with $x=0.25$, 0.3 and 0.5. For $x=0.3$ and 0.5, we observed a gap in the low-temperature CE-type charge-ordered (CO) phase and a…

The magnetic moment induced by an external magnetic field of 5.8 T on the Co3+ ions in LaCoO3 has been measured by polarized neutron diffraction. Measurements were made at 100 K, near to the spin-state transition, at 1.5 K and at 285 K. The…

The charge profile of thermally poled electrets has been studied using two different methods, laser induced pressure pulse (LIPP) and pulsed electroacoustic (PEA), to gain insight into the mechanisms that are activated and assess which is…

The electric polarization hysteresis loops and remanent polarization were revealed in multiferroics RMn$_2$O$_5$ with $R = Gd$ and $Bi$ at wide temperature interval from 5 K up to 330 K. Until recently, the long-range ferroelectric order…

We have performed optical microscopy, micro-photoelectron spectroscopy, and micro-Raman scattering measurements on Y$_{0.63}$Ca$_{0.37}$TiO$_3$ single crystals in order to clarify the interplay between the microstructure and the temperature…

We used an optical reflection method to measure the temperature-dependence of the piezoelectricity, electrostriction and time constant of a morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) thin film. We obtained the piezoelectric constant and the…

Dielectric spectroscopy of $SrTiO_3$ single crystal over a broad range of microwave frequency using quasi $TE_{m,1,1}$ and quasi $TM_{m,1,1}$ modes reveals crystal asymmetry from typical measurement of $Q$-factor, transmission or frequency…

We report measurements of the magnetic susceptibility of twinned single crystals of YBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{6+x}$ from just above their superconducting transition temperatures to 300 K with magnetic fields of up to 5 T applied parallel and…

Metal-insulator transitions strongly coupled with lattice were found in Bi1-xLaxNiO3. Synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction revealed that pressure (P ~ 3 GPa, T = 300 K), temperature (T ~ 340 K, x = 0.05), and La-substitution (x ~ 0.075, T =…

The dielectric constant of CaCu3Ti4O12 is measured with a different electrode geometry than previous measurements. Similar colossal values are obtained showing that they are "intrinsic" to the material. We show that in braced structures…

The authors report on the interplay between magnetically ordered phases with temperature and magnetic field across compressively strained interfaces of thin La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 films on LaAlO3 substrates. From the temperature dependence of the…

PbZr0.52Ti0.48O3/La0.67Sr0.33MnO3(PZT/LSMO) bilayer with surface roughness ~ 1.8 nm thin films have been grown by pulsed laser deposition on LaAlO3(LAO) substrates. High remnant polarization (30-54 micro C/cm2), dielectric…

A powder X-ray diffraction study, combined with the magnetic susceptibility and electric transport measurements, was performed on a series of LnCoO3 perovskites (Ln = Y, Dy, Gd, Sm, Nd, Pr and La) over a temperature range 100 - 1000 K. A…

Monte Carlo simulations with an effective Hamiltonian parametrized from first principles are performed to study the dielectric response of BaTiO3 as a function of temperature, with particular emphasis on the behavior of the dielectric…

BaTiO3 is a model ferroelectric perovskite whose properties are highly sensitive to local structure, defect chemistry, and dopant distribution. However, conventional diffraction mainly probes the average lattice and can miss subtle changes…

This work addresses the effect of substituting Mn$^{3+}$ by Fe$^{3+}$ at the octahedral site of TbMnO$_3$ on the magnetic phase sequence, ferroelectric and magnetoelectric properties, keeping the Fe$^{3+}$ concentration below 5%. The…