Nanowire Arrays for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting
Electrosciences' Director Markys Cain worked with the European team involved in the development of nanowire energy harvesting technologies. Their most recent publication, 'Area-Selective Growth of Zinc Oxide Nanowire Arrays for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting' is available online. Electrosciences' contributions included [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Room temperature multiferroic
New paper published: 'Bi3.25La0.75Ti2.5Nb0.25(Fe0.5Co0.5)0.25O12, a single phase room temperature multiferroic' J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 2733 Multiferroics (MFs) have attracted great research interest due to the coexistence of ferroelectric and magnetic ordering, as well as magnetoelectric [...]
Dynamic In-situ Electrical and Interferometry Measurement Capability with High Resolution X-ray Diffraction Synchronisation
With the US electronics giant IBM having recently filed the first patents for piezoelectric transistors, European physicists, materials scientists and metrologists have joined forces in a project called Nanostrain...
Ferroelectrics for Fusion Energy
Can ferroelectrics be useful in fusion energy applications? Yes, they can! Far reaching review of functional materials for future energy from renewable resources New Review Article published by Royal Society of Chemistry Ferroelectric materials for [...]
Publications from Electrosciences 2017-2018
Electrosciences contributes to many peer reviewed papers published in high quality, high impact scientific journals. Some highlights in 2017/18 Electrosciences has co-authored three new scientific peer reviewed papers with a focus on the ferroelectric behaviour [...]
