Manipulating Ferroelectrics through Changes in Surface and Interface Properties

Optical Properties of Ferroelectrics and Measurement Procedures

Tunnel electroresistance through organic ferroelectrics

Organic electronics is emerging for large-area applications such as photovoltaic cells, rollable displays or electronic paper. Its future development and integration will require a simple, low-power organic memory, that can be written, erased and readout electrically. Here we demonstrate a non-volatile memory in which the ferroelectric polarisation state of an organic tunnel barrier encodes the...

Manipulating Multiple User Interface Representations

Three types of representation are typically produced during the User Interface (UI) development life cycle: a conceptual representation holding the models used for elaborating a UI, an internal representation concerning the code of the UI, and an external representation expressing the look and feel of the UI. While the end user typically manipulates the external representation only, the designe...

Facilitation of bacterial transport through porous media by changes in solution and surface properties

Facilitation of bacterial transport for the purpose of bioaugmentation of contaminant degradation may be achieved by a number of methods typically involving changes in the properties of the groundwater or changes in the characteristics of the bacterial surface. Facilitated bacterial transport was investigated in laboratory experiments monitoring bacterial retention in quartz sand and glass bead...

Microstructure and stray electric fields at surface cracks in ferroelectrics

Ferroelectric perovskites are widely used in transducer, memory and optical applications due to their attractive electromechanical and optical properties. In these brittle materials, reliability and failure of devices is dominated by the behavior of cracks. The electromechanical coupling causes cracks to interact strongly with both mechanical as well as electrical fields. Additionally, cracks a...