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Huang Q, Yang J, Chen Z, Chen Y, Cabral MJ, Luo H, Li F, Zhang S, Li Y, Xie Z, Huang H, Mai YW, Ringer SP, Liu S, Liao X. Formation of Head/Tail-to-Body Charged Domain Walls by Mechanical Stress. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2023; 15:2313-2318. [PMID: 36534513 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c14598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Domain walls (DWs) in ferroelectric materials are interfaces that separate domains with different polarizations. Charged domain walls (CDWs) and neutral domain walls are commonly classified depending on the charge state at the DWs. CDWs are particularly attractive as they are configurable elements, which can enhance field susceptibility and enable functionalities such as conductance control. However, it is difficult to achieve CDWs in practice. Here, we demonstrate that applying mechanical stress is a robust and reproducible approach to generate CDWs. By mechanical compression, CDWs with a head/tail-to-body configuration were introduced in ultrathin BaTiO3, which was revealed by in-situ transmission electron microscopy. Finite element analysis shows strong strain fluctuation in ultrathin BaTiO3 under compressive mechanical stress. Molecular dynamics simulations suggest that the strain fluctuation is a critical factor in forming CDWs. This study provides insight into ferroelectric DWs and opens a pathway to creating CDWs in ferroelectric materials.
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- Qianwei Huang
- School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales2006, Australia
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- Key Laboratory for Quantum Materials of Zhejiang Province, Department of Physics, School of Science, Westlake University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang310030, China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou, Zhejiang310024, China
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- Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia5005, Australia
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- School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales2006, Australia
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- Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai200050, China
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- Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an710049, China
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- Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute of Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales2522, Australia
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, Washington99352, United States
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia5005, Australia
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing100081, China
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- School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales2006, Australia
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- School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales2006, Australia
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- Key Laboratory for Quantum Materials of Zhejiang Province, Department of Physics, School of Science, Westlake University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang310030, China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou, Zhejiang310024, China
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- School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales2006, Australia
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Huang Q, Chen Z, Cabral MJ, Luo H, Liu H, Zhang S, Li Y, Mai YW, Ringer SP, Liao X. Manipulating ferroelectric behaviors via electron-beam induced crystalline defects. Nanoscale 2021; 13:14330-14336. [PMID: 34477716 DOI: 10.1039/d1nr04300e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Ferroelectric nanoplates are attractive for applications in nanoelectronic devices. Defect engineering has been an effective way to control and manipulate ferroelectric properties in nanoscale devices. Defects can act as pinning centers for ferroelectric domain wall motion, altering the switching properties and domain dynamics of ferroelectrics. However, there is a lack of detailed investigation on the interactions between defects and domain walls in ferroelectric nanoplates due to the limitation of previous characterization techniques, which impedes the development of defect engineering in ferroelectric nanodevices. In this study, we applied in situ biasing transmission electron microscopy to explore how dislocation loops, which were judiciously introduced into barium titanate nanoplates via electron beam irradiation, affect the motion of ferroelectric domain walls. The results show that the motion was dramatically suppressed by these localized defects, because of the local strain fields induced by the defects. The pinning effect can be further enhanced by multiple domain walls embedded with defect arrays. These results indicate the possibility of manipulating domain switching in ferroelectric nanoplates via the electron beam.
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- Qianwei Huang
- School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Darlington, NSW 2008, Australia.
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Miller MJ, Cabral MJ, Dickey EC, LeBeau JM, Reich BJ. Accounting for Location Measurement Error in Imaging Data With Application to Atomic Resolution Images of Crystalline Materials. Technometrics 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/00401706.2021.1905070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Matthew J. Miller
- Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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- Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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Huang Q, Chen Z, Cabral MJ, Wang F, Zhang S, Li F, Li Y, Ringer SP, Luo H, Mai YW, Liao X. Direct observation of nanoscale dynamics of ferroelectric degradation. Nat Commun 2021; 12:2095. [PMID: 33828086 PMCID: PMC8027400 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22355-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Failure of polarization reversal, i.e., ferroelectric degradation, induced by cyclic electric loadings in ferroelectric materials, has been a long-standing challenge that negatively impacts the application of ferroelectrics in devices where reliability is critical. It is generally believed that space charges or injected charges dominate the ferroelectric degradation. However, the physics behind the phenomenon remains unclear. Here, using in-situ biasing transmission electron microscopy, we discover change of charge distribution in thin ferroelectrics during cyclic electric loadings. Charge accumulation at domain walls is the main reason of the formation of c domains, which are less responsive to the applied electric field. The rapid growth of the frozen c domains leads to the ferroelectric degradation. This finding gives insights into the nature of ferroelectric degradation in nanodevices, and reveals the role of the injected charges in polarization reversal.
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- Qianwei Huang
- grid.1013.30000 0004 1936 834XSchool of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW Australia
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- grid.1013.30000 0004 1936 834XSchool of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW Australia
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- grid.1013.30000 0004 1936 834XSchool of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW Australia
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- grid.412531.00000 0001 0701 1077Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Material and Device, Department of Physics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- grid.1007.60000 0004 0486 528XInstitute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute of Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW Australia
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- grid.43169.390000 0001 0599 1243Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
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- grid.451303.00000 0001 2218 3491Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA USA
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- grid.1013.30000 0004 1936 834XSchool of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW Australia
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- grid.9227.e0000000119573309Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- grid.1013.30000 0004 1936 834XSchool of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW Australia
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- grid.1013.30000 0004 1936 834XSchool of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW Australia
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Kumar A, Baker JN, Bowes PC, Cabral MJ, Zhang S, Dickey EC, Irving DL, LeBeau JM. Atomic-resolution electron microscopy of nanoscale local structure in lead-based relaxor ferroelectrics. Nat Mater 2021; 20:62-67. [PMID: 32895506 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-020-0794-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Relaxor ferroelectrics, which can exhibit exceptional electromechanical coupling, are some of the most important functional materials, with applications ranging from ultrasound imaging to actuators. Since their discovery, their complex nanoscale chemical and structural heterogeneity has made the origins of their electromechanical properties extremely difficult to understand. Here, we employ aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy to quantify various types of nanoscale heterogeneities and their connection to local polarization in the prototypical relaxor ferroelectric system Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3. We identify three main contributions that each depend on Ti content: chemical order, oxygen octahedral tilt and oxygen octahedral distortion. These heterogeneities are found to be spatially correlated with low-angle polar domain walls, indicating their role in disrupting long-range polarization and leading to nanoscale domain formation and the relaxor response. We further locate nanoscale regions of monoclinic-like distortion that correlate directly with Ti content and electromechanical performance. Through this approach, the connections between chemical heterogeneity, structural heterogeneity and local polarization are revealed, validating models that are needed to develop the next generation of relaxor ferroelectrics.
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- Abinash Kumar
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute of Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Luo N, Han K, Cabral MJ, Liao X, Zhang S, Liao C, Zhang G, Chen X, Feng Q, Li JF, Wei Y. Constructing phase boundary in AgNbO 3 antiferroelectrics: pathway simultaneously achieving high energy density and efficiency. Nat Commun 2020; 11:4824. [PMID: 32973146 PMCID: PMC7515927 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18665-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 09/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Dielectric capacitors with high energy storage density (Wrec) and efficiency (η) are in great demand for high/pulsed power electronic systems, but the state-of-the-art lead-free dielectric materials are facing the challenge of increasing one parameter at the cost of the other. Herein, we report that high Wrec of 6.3 J cm-3 with η of 90% can be simultaneously achieved by constructing a room temperature M2-M3 phase boundary in (1-x)AgNbO3-xAgTaO3 solid solution system. The designed material exhibits high energy storage stability over a wide temperature range of 20-150 °C and excellent cycling reliability up to 106 cycles. All these merits achieved in the studied solid solution are attributed to the unique relaxor antiferroelectric features relevant to the local structure heterogeneity and antiferroelectric ordering, being confirmed by scanning transmission electron microscopy and synchrotron X-ray diffraction. This work provides a good paradigm for developing new lead-free dielectrics for high-power energy storage applications.
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- Nengneng Luo
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Processing for Non-ferrous Metallic and Featured Materials, School of Resources, Environment and Materials, Guangxi University, 530004, Nanning, China. .,Center on Nanoenergy Research, School of Physical Science and Technology, Guangxi University, 530004, Nanning, China.
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Processing for Non-ferrous Metallic and Featured Materials, School of Resources, Environment and Materials, Guangxi University, 530004, Nanning, China
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- School of Aerospace, Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- School of Aerospace, Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute of Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2500, Australia.
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- Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, SAR, China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Processing for Non-ferrous Metallic and Featured Materials, School of Resources, Environment and Materials, Guangxi University, 530004, Nanning, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Processing for Non-ferrous Metallic and Featured Materials, School of Resources, Environment and Materials, Guangxi University, 530004, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Processing for Non-ferrous Metallic and Featured Materials, School of Resources, Environment and Materials, Guangxi University, 530004, Nanning, China.
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Li F, Cabral MJ, Xu B, Cheng Z, Dickey EC, LeBeau JM, Wang J, Luo J, Taylor S, Hackenberger W, Bellaiche L, Xu Z, Chen LQ, Shrout TR, Zhang S. Giant piezoelectricity of Sm-doped Pb(Mg 1/3Nb 2/3)O 3-PbTiO 3 single crystals. Science 2019; 364:264-268. [PMID: 31000659 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw2781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2018] [Accepted: 02/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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High-performance piezoelectrics benefit transducers and sensors in a variety of electromechanical applications. The materials with the highest piezoelectric charge coefficients (d 33) are relaxor-PbTiO3 crystals, which were discovered two decades ago. We successfully grew Sm-doped Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 (Sm-PMN-PT) single crystals with even higher d 33 values ranging from 3400 to 4100 picocoulombs per newton, with variation below 20% over the as-grown crystal boule, exhibiting good property uniformity. We characterized the Sm-PMN-PT on the atomic scale with scanning transmission electron microscopy and made first-principles calculations to determine that the giant piezoelectric properties arise from the enhanced local structural heterogeneity introduced by Sm3+ dopants. Rare-earth doping is thus identified as a general strategy for introducing local structural heterogeneity in order to enhance the piezoelectricity of relaxor ferroelectric crystals.
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- Fei Li
- Electronic Materials Research Lab, Key Lab of Education Ministry/International Center for Dielectric Research, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China. .,Materials Research Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China.,Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering and Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
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- ISEM, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2500, Australia
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
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- ISEM, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2500, Australia
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- TRS Technologies Inc., 2820 East College Avenue, State College, PA 16801, USA
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- TRS Technologies Inc., 2820 East College Avenue, State College, PA 16801, USA
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- TRS Technologies Inc., 2820 East College Avenue, State College, PA 16801, USA
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- Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering and Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
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- Electronic Materials Research Lab, Key Lab of Education Ministry/International Center for Dielectric Research, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
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- Materials Research Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Materials Research Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Materials Research Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. .,ISEM, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2500, Australia
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