Piezoelectric enhancement under negative pressure

Recently, negative pressure has been observed in perovskite nanowires by annealing the wires from a lower-density phase. Here, the authors show that the negative pressure enhances the piezoelectric coefficient of PbTiO3 and Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 nanowires experimentally and by ab initiocalculations.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alexander Kvasov, Leo J. McGilly, Jin Wang, Zhiyong Shi, Cosmin S. Sandu, Tomas Sluka, Alexander K. Tagantsev, Nava Setter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12136