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Advances in P(VDF-TrFE) Composites: A Methodical Review on Enhanced Properties and Emerging Electronics Applications

  • Lekshmi Priya P S,
  • Biswaranjan Swain,
  • Shailendra Rajput,
  • Saubhagyalaxmi Behera and
  • Sabyasachi Parida

Piezoelectric polymers are a class of material that belong to carbon–hydrogen-based organic materials with a long polymer chain. They fill the void where single crystals and ceramics fail to perform. This characteristic of piezoelectric polymer...

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24 Citations
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17 Pages

Interactions and Dynamics of One-Dimensional Droplets, Bubbles and Kinks

  • Garyfallia C. Katsimiga,
  • Simeon I. Mistakidis,
  • Boris A. Malomed,
  • Dimitris J. Frantzeskakis,
  • Ricardo Carretero-Gonzalez and
  • Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We explore the dynamics and interactions of multiple bright droplets and bubbles, as well as the interactions of kinks with droplets and with antikinks, in the extended one-dimensional Gross–Pitaevskii model including the Lee–Huang–...

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15 Citations
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Systematic Trends in Hybrid-DFT Computations of BaTiO3/SrTiO3, PbTiO3/SrTiO3 and PbZrO3/SrZrO3 (001) Hetero Structures

  • Roberts I. Eglitis,
  • Sergei Piskunov,
  • Anatoli I. Popov,
  • Juris Purans,
  • Dmitry Bocharov and
  • Ran Jia

We performed predictive hybrid-DFT computations for PbTiO3, BaTiO3, SrTiO3, PbZrO3 and SrZrO3 (001) surfaces, as well as their BaTiO3/SrTiO3, PbTiO3/SrTiO3 and PbZrO3/SrZrO3 (001) heterostructures. According to our hybrid-DFT computations for BO2 and...

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12 Citations
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11 Pages

In this report, we discuss the preparation of undoped and (Fe,Co) co-doped ZnO nanocomposites via an ultrasonicated probe, which were both under UV irradiation for 12 h and annealed at 400 °C for four hours in ambient air. Here, we investigated t...

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10 Citations
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19 Pages

The Cryogenic Anticoincidence Detector for the NewAthena X-IFU Instrument: A Program Overview

  • Claudio Macculi,
  • Andrea Argan,
  • Matteo D’Andrea,
  • Simone Lotti,
  • Gabriele Minervini,
  • Luigi Piro,
  • Lorenzo Ferrari Barusso,
  • Corrado Boragno,
  • Edvige Celasco and
  • Giovanni Gallucci
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Athena (advanced telescope for high-energy astrophysics) is an ESA large-class mission, at present under a re-definition “design-to-cost” phase, planned for a prospective launch at L1 orbit in the second half of the 2030s. It will be an o...

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Influence of a Non-Resonant Intense Laser and Structural Defect on the Electronic and Optical Properties of a GaAs Quantum Ring under Inversely Quadratic Potential

  • José C. León-González,
  • Rafael G. Toscano-Negrette,
  • Juan A. Vinasco,
  • Alvaro L. Morales,
  • Miguel E. Mora-Ramos and
  • Carlos A. Duque

We investigated the impact of a non-resonant intense laser, structural defects, and magnetic fields on the electronic and optical properties of a simple GaAs quantum ring under the inverse quadratic Hellmann potential, using the effective mass and pa...

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11 Pages

This research synthesised zinc oxide (ZnO) structure by a hydrothermal method. ZnO samples were prepared using different molarities of zinc (Zn) precursor, ranging from 0.10 to 0.16 M. Structural and morphological properties were characterised by X-r...

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12 Pages

Superconducting Diode Effect in Topological Hybrid Structures

  • Tairzhan Karabassov,
  • Emir S. Amirov,
  • Irina V. Bobkova,
  • Alexander A. Golubov,
  • Elena A. Kazakova and
  • Andrey S. Vasenko

Currently, the superconducting diode effect (SDE) is being actively discussed, due to its large application potential in superconducting electronics. In particular, superconducting hybrid structures, based on three-dimensional (3D) topological insula...

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9 Citations
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Advanced Boron Carbide Matrix Nanocomposites Obtained from Liquid-Charge: Focused Review

  • Levan Chkhartishvili,
  • Archil Mikeladze,
  • Otar Tsagareishvili,
  • Vakhtang Kvatchadze,
  • Valery Tavkhelidze,
  • Zviad Mestvirishvili,
  • Dimitri Driaev,
  • Natia Barbakadze,
  • Lili Nadaraia and
  • Ketevan Sarajishvili
  • + 3 authors

Boron carbide is known as a hard material; it possesses a unique complex of physical-mechanical properties and has diverse applications in industries. An expansion of its field of uses stems from the creation of boron carbide matrix nanocomposite mat...

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Polarons in Rock-Forming Minerals: Physical Implications

  • Boriana Mihailova,
  • Giancarlo Della Ventura,
  • Naemi Waeselmann,
  • Simone Bernardini,
  • Wei Xu and
  • Augusto Marcelli

The existence of thermally-activated quasiparticles in amphiboles is an important issue, as amphiboles are among the main hydrous complex silicate minerals in the Earth’s lithosphere. The amphibole structure consists of stripes of 6-membered TO...