Operando metrology for energy storage materials – 21GRD01 EMPIR Project
Improved power and material measurements will enable development of optimised, future-proof electronic devices...
Giant electrostriction in single crystals
Giant strains in single crystals of an age old material - a new investigation highlights the importance of atomic defects on performance and durability. A new paper, co-authored by Electrosciences, is published in Applied Physics Letters, Materials. Video of the temperature dependence of XRD scans showing the evolution of the [...]
ESPYRig commissioned at UK’s Synchrotron
ESPYRig commissioned at the UK's Synchrotron. The Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire, UK, has just received our new ESPYRig operando stress rig for materials characterisation! The system was successfully commissioned on i16 by beamline scientist Gareth Nisbet this month. More details about the instrument can be found on our website. They can now [...]
Electrical nanoscale metrology in industry
Improved power and material measurements will enable development of optimised, future-proof electronic devices...
Simultaneous Large Optical and Piezoelectric Effects
A new paper, co-authored by Electrosciences, is published in Applied Physics Letters. 3D Evolution of the (220) reciprocal space (diffracting) volume during loading and unloading cycles. Electrical switching of ferroelectric domains and subsequent domain wall motion promotes strong piezoelectric activity, however, light scatters at refractive index discontinuities such [...]
Room-temperature multiferroic behavior in layer-structured Aurivillius phase ceramics
A new paper, co-authored by Electrosciences, is published in Applied Physics Letters. Spin density of the system (isosurface level 1⁄4 0.005): O (red), Bi (pink), La (green), Ti (light blue), Co (dark blue), and Fe (yellow) atoms. Multiferroics that simultaneously exhibit ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism have recently attracted great attention due [...]
In Situ Electric-Field Study of Surface Effects in Domain Engineered Crystals by Grazing Incidence Diffraction
A new paper, co-authored by Electrosciences, is published in Crystals. Software tools developed to create HKL reciprocal lattice maps In this work, we present a grazing incidence X-ray diffraction study of the surface of a 0.24Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)O3-Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 (PIN-PMN-PT) [011] poled rhombohedral single crystal. The near surface microstructure (the top several tens [...]
Higher efficiency sonar supported by new measurements
A new paper, co-authored by Electrosciences, points to new ways to control high powered sonar projectors using some of the newest single crystal piezoelectric materials that are becoming commercially available. Experimental measurements taken by Electrosciences in collaboration with the UK XMaS beamline at the ESRF, France, highlights the requirement to control the [...]
Is Fe doped BTO multiferroic?
New work just publsihed in APL-Materials shows that iron doped ferroelectric barium titanate exhibits multiferroic behaviour. New techniques developed under the European Metrology project 'ADVENT' by Electrosciences Ltd and the XMaS beamline at the ESRF (Synchrotron beamline in Grenoble, France) have shed new light on these materials. Software tools developed [...]
Tiny piezoelectronic device accelerates CMOS chips
Electrosciences is partner on EU project PETMEM The electronics industry needs a new CMOS transistor technology, and the EU-funded PETMEM project undertook efforts to develop it. The resulting alternative, called a piezoelectronic transduction (PET) transistor, is predicted to be faster and more energy efficient than conventional CMOS transistor alternatives. The project's key [...]
