Electrostriction plays an important role in the electromechanical behavior of ferroelectrics
and describes a phenomenon in dielectrics where the strain varies proportional to the …

Electrostriction is the basis of electromechanical coupling in all insulators. The quadratic
electrostrictive strain x ij associated with induced polarization components Pk and P l is …

Materials developing mechanical stress in response to the application of an external electric
field are of great importance for a wide range of applications from actuators for portable …

Gd-doped ceria (CGO) fluorite exhibits prominent electro-chemo-mechanical properties and
giant-electrostriction at room temperature and has been recently disclosed in both CGO …

The evaluation of electrostrictive properties of low permittivity dielectrics requires extremely
sensitive instrumentation. In the present work, a modified compressometer capable of …

Gadolium doped ceria, Gd: CeO 2 (CGO), have recently been shown to possess an
exceptional high electrostriction coefficient (Q), which is at the least three orders of …

In this work a new method for the calculation of the electrostrictive properties of materials
using density functional theory is presented. The method relies on the thermodynamical …

We present a general relation between the electromechanical couplings of infinitesimal
strain and electric field to arbitrary order, measured at fixed voltage and at fixed electric field …

The broad applicability of optical interferometry to the analysis of surfaces and bulk materials
is reflected in the growing library of available techniques. Laser interferometers are highly …

The photovoltaic signal is an important characteristic of photodetectors, including but not
limited to those that are based on p–n or p–i–n photodiodes. In an open-circuit configuration …