Computational Modeling of Flexoelectricity—A Review
Energies, 2020 Electromechanical coupling devices have been playing an indispensable role in modern engineering. Particularly, flexoelectricity, an electromechanical coupling effect that involves strain gradients, has shown promising potential for future miniaturized ...
Xiaoying Zhuang +2 more
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Flexoelectricity in Biological Materials and Its Potential Applications in Biomedical Research [PDF]
BioengineeringFlexoelectricity arises in materials under strain gradients, which can be particularly significant for situations in which the existence of other electromechanical properties is absent or generating large flexoelectric properties is achievable.
Melika Mohammadkhah +2 more
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Conservation Integrals in Nonhomogeneous Materials with Flexoelectricity
Applied Sciences, 2021 The flexoelectricity, which is a new electromechanical coupling phenomenon between strain gradients and electric polarization, has a great influence on the fracture analysis of flexoelectric solids due to the large gradients near the cracks. On the other
Pengfei Yu, Weifeng Leng, Yaohong Suo
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Electromechanical Coupling Analysis of a Piezoelectric–Flexoelectric–Semiconductor Cantilever Beam [PDF]
MicromachinesThis paper presents a theoretical study on the electromechanical coupling response of piezoelectric–flexoelectric–semiconductor (PFS) nanocantilevers by adopting flexoelectric elasticity and semiconductor theory.
Yaxuan Su, Xuezhi Wu, Zhidong Zhou
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Flexoelectricity Modulated Electron Transport of 2D Indium Oxide [PDF]
Advanced ScienceThe phenomenon of flexoelectricity, wherein mechanical deformation induces alterations in the electron configuration of metal oxides, has emerged as a promising avenue for regulating electron transport.
Xinyi Hu +12 more
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Schottky Diode Leakage Current Fluctuations: Electrostatically Induced Flexoelectricity in Silicon [PDF]
Advanced ScienceNearly four decades have passed since IBM scientists pioneered atomic force microscopy (AFM) by merging the principles of a scanning tunneling microscope with the features of a stylus profilometer.
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Antiferroelectric Order in Nematic Liquids: Flexoelectricity Versus Electrostatics [PDF]
Advanced ScienceThe recent discovery of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystalline phases marks a major breakthrough in soft matter research. An intermediate phase, often observed between the nonpolar and the ferroelectric nematic phase, shows a distinct antiferroelectric
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Flexoelectric Elastomer Enabled by Miscibility‐Driven Succinonitrile Molecular Rotation [PDF]
Advanced SciencePlastic crystals exhibit long‐range positional order alongside orientational disorder, positioning them between crystalline solids and liquids. Although their centrosymmetric structure suppresses intrinsic piezoelectric and ferroelectric effects, they ...
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Universal converse flexoelectricity in dielectric materials via varying electric field direction
International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials, 2021 Flexoelectricity is a symmetry independent electromechanical coupling phenomenon that outperforms piezoelectricity at micro and nanoscales due to its size-dependent behavior arising from gradient terms in its constitutive relations.
Saurav Sharma, Rajeev Kumar, Rahul Vaish
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Advanced Science, 2021 Flexoelectricity is an electromechanical coupling effect in which electric polarization is generated by a strain gradient. In this investigation, a potassium sodium niobite/poly(vinylidene fluoride‐trifluoroethylene) (KNN/PVDF‐TrFE)‐based nanocomposite ...
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