Monte Carlo Simulations of Doping Properties of a Spin-3/2 Ising Nanotube

The effect of spin-1 impurities doping on the magnetic properties of a spin-3/2 Ising nanotube is investigated using Monte Carlo simulations within the Blume-Emery-Griffiths model in the presence of an external magnetic field. The thermal behaviors of the order parameters and different macroscopic instabilities as well as the hysteretic behavior of the material are examined in great detail as a function of the dopant density. It is found that the impurities concentration affects all the system magnetic properties generating for some specific values, compensation points and multi-cycle hysteresis. Doping conditions where the saturation/remanent magnetization and coercive field of the investigated material can be modified for permanent or soft magnets synthesis purpose are discussed.

Investigation of Domain Wall Velocity to External Fields for High-Quality Waveguide-Type Periodically Poled LiNbO_(3) Fabrication

The Ti-doped waveguide-type periodically poled LiNbO_(3)(PPLN)were fabricated and the dependence of domain wall velocity on an external field applied for domain inversion was investigated.The whole polarization reversal process was computer-controlled to regulate domain wall expansion at a feedback time shorter than 5μs.The coercive voltage and several values of excess voltage were applied on 500μm-thick wafers serially connected to a 1-MOhm external resistor which had an effect of the poling current reduction,i.e.the deceleration of domain wall expansion.The domain wall velocity is sensitive to the poling voltage,precisely speaking,to the excess voltage.The domain wall velocities were 28.70,16.02 and 5.75μm·s^(-1)under poling field of 23.5,22.0 and 21.0 kV·mm^(-1),respectively.Moreover,average duty cycle of PPLN is about 49.93%.

Magnetic properties of NdFeB-coated rubberwood composites

Magnetic properties of composites prepared by coating lacquer containing neodymium iron boron （Nd-Fe-B） powders on rubberwood were characterized by vibrating sample magnetometry （VSM）, magnetic moment measurements, and attraction tests with an iron-core solenoid. The Nd-Fe-B powders were recycled from electronic wastes by the ball-milling technique. Varying the milling time from 20 to 300 min, the magnetic squareness and the coercive field of the Nd-Fe-B powders were at the minimum when the powders were milled for 130 rain. It followed that the coercive field of the magnetic wood composites was increased with the milling time increasing from 130 to 300 min. For the magnetic wood composites using Nd-Fe-B obtained from the same milling time, the magnetic squareness and the coercive field were rather insensitive to the variation of Nd-Fe-B concentration in coating lacquer from 0.43 to 1.00 g/cm3. By contrast, the magnetization and magnetic moment were increased with the Nd-Fe-B concentration increasing. Furthermore, the electrical current in the solenoid required for the attraction of the magnetic wood composites was exponentially reduced with the increase in the amount of Nd-Fe-B used in the coating.

Effect of exchange interaction in ferromagnetic superlattices:A Monte Carlo study

The Monte Carlo simulation is used to investigate the magnetic properties of ferromagnetic superlattices through the Ising model. The reduced critical temperatures of the ferromagnetic superlattices are studied each as a function of layer thickness for different values of exchange interaction. The exchange interaction in each layer within the interface and the crystal field in the unit cell are studied. The magnetic coercive fields and magnetization remnants are obtained for different values of exchange interaction, different values of temperature and crystal field with fixed values of physical parameters.

Depolarization field in relaxor-based ferroelectric single crystals under one-cycle bipolar pulse drive

The [001]c-polarized(1-x)Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–xPbTiO3(PMN-PT) single crystals are widely used in ultrasonic detection transducers and underwater acoustic sensors. However, the relatively small coercive field( 2 kV/cm) of such crystals restricts their application at high frequencies because the driving field will exceed the coercive field. The depolarization field can be considerably larger in an antiparallel direction than in a parallel direction with respect to polarization when the bipolar driving cycle starts. Thus, if the direction of the sine wave signal in the first half cycle is opposite to the polarization direction, then the depolarized domains can be repolarized in the second half of the sine cycle. However, if the direction of the sine wave signal in the first half of the cycle is along the polarization direction, then the change is negligible,and the domains switched in the second half of the sine cycle cannot be recovered. The design of electric driving method needs to allow the use of a large applied field to emit strong enough signals and produce good images. This phenomenon combined with the coercive field increases with the driving frequency, thereby making the PMN-PT single crystals usable for high-frequency applications. As such, the applied field can be considerably larger than the conventionally defined coercive field.

The magnetic properties of diluted CoFe_2O_4 nanomaterials

The magnetic properties of （Cox Fe1-x）A （Zn1-x Fe1＋x）B O4 are studied using mean-field theory and the probability distribution law to obtain the saturation magnetization, the coercive field, the critical temperature, and the exchange interactions with different values of D （nm） and x. High-temperature series expansions （HTSEs） combined with the Pade approximant are used to calculate the critical temperature of （CoxFe1-x）A（Znl-xFe1＋x）BO4, and the critical exponent associated with magnetic susceptibility is obtained.

Optically Controlled Coercive Field of MAPbl_(3)/P(VDF-TrFE)Ferroelectric Composite Films

Ferroelectric polymers,such as poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene)[P(VDF-TrFE)or PVTF]have attracted growing interest in developing flexible devices because of their excellent ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity.High coercive field(E c)inherent to PVTF for switching its polarization,however,is not beneficial for practical memory or sensor device application.Different strategies,including irradiation and interface control,have been thus developed to reduce E c.Despite many efforts,a facile approach to tailoring intrinsic E_(c) of PVTF has not been documented.In this work,an optically controlled E_(c) was reported,which is achieved for the first time by introducing photosensitive MAPbI3 nanocrystals into PVTF matrix.When exposed to the irradiation of 532 nm laser light,a decreased E_(c) of the composites can be achieved reversibly by increasing the light density.The decreased level of E_(c) increases as the MAPbI3 content enhanced,and a 10.7%reduction of E_(c) can be achieved in 15%(mass fraction)MAPbI3/PVTF samples.These results could be attributed to loading an internal stress on PVTF,which was generated by the photostriction of MAPbI3 nanocrystals.This explanation was further supported by in-situ XRD results under irradiation of 532 nm laser light.Our findings may offer the opportunity to optically modulate the ferroelectric properties of PVTF composites for optimized device performances.

Dielectric Characteristics of Ba_(0.65)Sr_(0.35)TiO_3 Thin Films by Sol-Gel Method

Ferroelectric Ba0.65Sr0.35TiO3 （BST） thin films on the Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrate have been successfully prepared by sol-gel. Such films have approximately 300 nm thicknesses with a remnant polarization of about 2.95 μ℃/cm^2 and a coercive field of about 21.5 kV/cm. The investigations of X-ray diffraction and atomic force microscopy show that the BST films annealed at 650 ℃ exhibit a tetragonal structure and that the films dominantly consist of large column or grains of about 89 nm in diameter. The curves of the temperature dependence of dielectric coefficient in different frequencies display the curie transition at the temperature around 23 ℃. The dielectric loss tangent of BST thin fdms at 100 kHz is less than 0.04. As a result, the BST thin films are more applicable for fabrication of infrared detector compared with the BST thin films reported previously.

Temperature-and thickness-dependence of robust out-of-plane ferroelectricity in CVD grown ultrathin van der Waals a-In2Se3 layers

Two-dimensional(2D)ferroelectric materials with unique structure and extraordinary optoelectrical properties have attracted intensive research in the field of nanoelectronic and optoelectronic devices,such as optical sensors,transistors,photovoltaics and non-volatile memory devices.However,the transition temperature of the reported ferroelectrics in 2D limit is generally low or slightly above room temperature,hampering their applications in high-temperature electronic devices.Here,we report the robust high-temperature ferroelectricity in 2D a-In2Se3,grown by chemical vapor depostion(CVD),exhibiting an out-of-plane spontaneous polarization reaching above 200℃.The polarization switching and ferroelectric domains are observed in In2Se;nanoflakes in a wide temperature range.The coercive field of the CVD grown ferroelectric layers ilustrates a room-temperature thickness dependency and increases drastically when the film thickness decreases;whereas there is no large variance in the coercive field at dfterent termperature from the samples with identical thickness.The results show the stable ferroelectricit of In2Se3 nanoflakes maintained at high temperature and open up the opportunities of 2D materials for novel applications in high-temperature nanoelectronic devices.

Fatigue phenomena in thin ferroelectric films stimulated by repeated switching of the polarization

With the use of techniques of Sawyer
Tower and Mertz method regularities of the origin of "fatigue"in thin ferroelectric films of lead titanate and lead zirconate titanate have been investigated in the fields above coercive.We propose a model to explain the experimentally observed switching-dependent fatigue processes by the motion of charged dislocations in an applied external alternating electric field.

Crystal growth and property characterization for PIN–PMN–PT ternary piezoelectric crystals

Binary piezoelectric crystal Pb(Mg_(1/3)Nb_(2/3))O_(3)–PbTiO_(3)(PMN–PT)has excellent dielectric and piezoelectric properties,which has led to the commercialization for medical ultrasound imaging.Recently,there is a growing demand for piezoelectric crystals with improved thermal and electrical properties.Ternary piezoelectric crystals Pb(In_(1/2)Nb_(1/2))O_(3)–Pb(Mg_(1/3)Nb_(2/3))O_(3)–PbTiO_(3)(PIN–PMN–PT)have increased depoling temperature and coercive field than binary PMN–PT.To better understand the ternary crystal system and improve crystal properties,we systematically investigated crystal growth of PIN–PMN–PT with modified Bridgman method.Like PMN–PT,PIN–PMN–PT crystals have excellent piezoelectric properties(e.g.,k_(33)0:87–0.92,d_(33)1000–2200 pm/V).Higher PIN content leads to
40C increase in depoling temperature and more than doubling of coercive field(7.0 kV/cm).Such improvements are advantageous for applications where high temperature and/or high-drive are needed.