Electrocapillary coupling at rough surfaces

Electrocapillary coupling at rough surfaces.

We investigate the impact of the surface roughness on the experimental value of the electrocapillary coupling coefficient, ς. This quantity relates the response of electrode potential, E, to tangential elastic strain, e, and also measures the variation of the surface stress, f, with the superficial charge density, q. We combine experiments measuring the apparent coupling coefficient ςeff for go...

Avalanches at rough surfaces.

We describe the surface properties of a simple lattice model of a sandpile that includes evolving structural disorder. We present a dynamical scaling hypothesis for generic sandpile automata and, additionally, explore the kinetic roughening of the sandpile surface, indicating its relationship with the sandpile evolution. Finally, we comment on the surprisingly good agreement found between this ...

Magnetoelectric coupling at metal surfaces.

Magnetoelectric coupling allows the magnetic state of a material to be changed by an applied electric field. To date, this phenomenon has mainly been observed in insulating materials such as complex multiferroic oxides. Bulk metallic systems do not exhibit magnetoelectric coupling, because applied electric fields are screened by conduction electrons. We demonstrate strong magnetoelectric coupli...

Modeling Rough Surfaces

Scattering on Multiscale rough surfaces

We present a method to recover a fractal dimension of a multi-scale rough surface, the so-called correlation dimension, from the knowledge of the far-field scattered intensity. The results are validated by numerical experiments on Weierstrass-like surfaces.