Mechanical tailoring of dislocations in ceramics at room temperature: A perspective

X Fang - Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The potential of dislocations (line defects) in ceramics may have been greatly underrated
until most recently. Promising proofs‐of‐concept have been demonstrated for dislocation …

Mechanical manipulation for ordered topological defects

Z Gao, Y Zhang, X Li, X Zhang, X Chen, G Du… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Randomly distributed topological defects created during the spontaneous symmetry
breaking are the fingerprints to trace the evolution of symmetry, range of interaction, and …

Sub-nanometer-scale mapping of crystal orientation and depth-dependent structure of dislocation cores in SrTiO3

H Sha, Y Ma, G Cao, J Cui, W Yang, Q Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Defects in crystals play a fundamental role in modulating mechanical, electrical,
luminescent, and magnetic behaviors of materials. However, accurate measurement of …

The impact of flash sintering on densification and plasticity of strontium titanate: high heating rates, dislocation nucleation and plastic flow

W Rheinheimer, XL Phuah, L Porz, M Scherer… - Journal of the European …, 2023 - Elsevier
Flash sintering involves very rapid densification of ceramic powder compacts during a
thermal runaway induced by an applied voltage and current. The mechanisms of fast …

Dislocation toughening in single‐crystal KNbO3

O Preuß, E Bruder, W Lu, F Zhuo… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The growing research interest in dislocation‐tuned functionality in ceramics is evident, with
the most recent proofs‐of‐concept for enhanced ferroelectric properties, electrical …

Theoretical upper limit of dislocation density in slightly-ductile single-crystal ceramics

K Yasui, K Hamamoto - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Upper limit of dislocation density without fracture is numerically calculated for slightly-ductile
single-crystal ceramics for which the Griffith criterion for fracture and the Bailey–Hirsch type …

[HTML][HTML] Fatigue-free dielectric and piezoelectric response in single-crystal BaTiO3 tuned by dislocation imprint

F Zhuo, J Rödel - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Dislocations have recently been imprinted into barium titanate single crystals to provide
local domain wall pinning sites. Here, we assess the cycling stability under unipolar loading …

60 years of dislocations in ceramics: A conceptual framework for dislocation mechanics in ceramics

L Porz - International Journal of Ceramic Engineering & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
High‐tech ceramics are typically engineered by controlling point defects and interfaces
while one‐dimensional dislocations have found much less attention so far. Nevertheless …

Room‐temperature bulk plasticity and tunable dislocation densities in KTaO3

X Fang, J Zhang, A Frisch, O Preuß… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We report room‐temperature bulk plasticity mediated by dislocations in single‐crystal cubic
potassium tantalate oxide (KTaO3), contrasting the conventional knowledge that single …

The unusual case of plastic deformation and high dislocation densities with the cold sintering of the piezoelectric ceramic K0. 5Na0. 5NbO3

K Nakagawa, M Iwasaki, Z Fan, JI Roscow… - Journal of the European …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract K 0.5 Na 0.5 NbO 3 (KNN) can be readily densified using the cold sintering process,
but despite observing high relative permittivity, the ferroelectric hysteresis is strongly …