The last decade has witnessed significant advances in energy harvesting technologies as a
possible alternative to provide a continuous power supply for small, low-power devices in …

High-performance piezoceramics are some of the most important and widely used materials,
and as such research into this topic is at the forefront of high-technology advanced …

Piezoelectric materials convert mechanical stress to electrical energy and thus are widely
used in energy harvesting and wearable devices. However, in the piezoelectric family, there …

With the rapid development of the Internet of things (IoT), wearable electronics, how to
power them has been a great challenge, as the traditional powering method via batteries …

The piezoelectric effect, mechanical-to-electrical and electrical-to-mechanical energy
conversion, is highly beneficial for functional and responsive electronic devices. To fully …

We present an approach to the implementation of the virtual crystal approximation (VCA) for
the study of properties of solid solutions in the context of density-functional methods. Our …

High resolution x-ray powder diffraction measurements on poled PbZr 1− x Ti x O 3 (PZT)
ceramic samples close to the rhombohedral-tetragonal phase boundary (the so-called …

Construction of ferroelectric and optimization of macroscopic polarization has attracted
tremendous attention for next generation light weight and flexible devices, which brings …

Abstract 2D hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a wide‐bandgap van der Waals crystal with a
unique combination of properties, including exceptional strength, large oxidation resistance …

The perovskitelike ferroelectric system PbZr 1− x Ti x O 3 (PZT) has a nearly vertical
morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) around x= 0.45–0.50. Recent synchrotron x-ray …