Barium titanate is a member of a large family of compounds with the general formula ABO3 called perovskites, as the crystal size of barium titanate increases and at critical crystalline size crystal structure of barium titanate transformed from cubic to tetragonal. Transformation of crystal structure is also take place at Curi temperature. Cubic structure show paramagenatic behavior while tetra...

Growth in the use of organic materials in the fabrication of electronic devices is on the rise. Recently, some attempts have been undertaken to manufacture polymer memory devices. Such devices are fabricated by depositing a blend (an admixture of organic polymer, small organic molecules and nanoparticles) between two metal electrodes. These devices show two electrical conductivity states ('high...

A purified compound of the activator of glucuronide formation was isolated from a boiled extract of rat liver by charcoal adsorption, ethanol fractionation of barium salts, and finally paper and Dowex-l column chromatographies. The analytical data and the chemical properties of the compound sugggested that the endogenous activator of glucuronide formation in rat liver might be uridine diphospha...

Barium hexaferrite powder samples with grains in the μm-range were obtained from solid-state sintering, and crystals with sizes up to 5 mm grown from PbO, Na₂CO₃, and BaB₂O₄ fluxes, respectively. Carbonate and borate fluxes provide the largest and structurally best crystals at significantly lower growth temperatures of 1533 K compared to flux-free synthesis (1623 K). The maximum synthesis tempe...

The bjarebyite group of minerals, characterized by the general formula BaX(2)Y(2)(PO(4))(3)(OH)(3), with X = Mg, Fe(2+) or Mn(2+), and Y = Al or Fe(3+), includes five members: bjarebyite BaMn(2+) (2)Al(2)(PO(4))(3)(OH)(3), johntomaite BaFe(2+) (2)Fe(3+) (2)(PO(4))(3)(OH)(3), kulanite BaFe(2+) (2)Al(2)(PO(4))(3)(OH)(3), penikisite BaMg(2)Al(2)(PO(4))(3)(OH)(3), and perloffite BaMn(2+) (2)Fe(3+) ...

In this work, the inductively coupled plasma etching technique was applied to etch the barium titanate thin film. A comparative study of etch characteristics of the barium titanate thin film has been investigated in fluorine-based (CF4/O2, C4F8/O2 and SF6/O2) plasmas. The etch rates were measured using focused ion beam in order to ensure the accuracy of measurement. The surface morphology of et...

In this work, the impacts of varying surface modification, matrix parameters, and fabrication conditions on the performance of optically printed (0-3) piezoelectric polymer nanocomposites are examined. For example, we find that a 75% reduction in nanoparticle edge-length boosted the piezoelectric coefficient (d33) by over 100%. By optimizing the composition and fabrication conditions, 10% by ma...

In order to utilize nanostructured materials for potential solar and other energy-harvesting applications, scalable synthetic techniques for these materials must be developed. Herein we use a vapor phase conversion approach to synthesize nanowire (NW) arrays of semiconducting barium silicide (BaSi2) in high yield for the first time for potential solar applications. Dense arrays of silicon NWs o...

A reduction process of the substituted Ba-ferrite has been found to be devided into three steps. At the first and second steps, the magneto-plumbite structure maintains and the coercivity increases. When the reduced-substituted Ba-ferrite particles are reoxidized, the coercivity is reversible in the first step but irreversible in the second step. During the third step, the magneto-plumbite stru...

As the macro behavior of the strength of exchange interaction, state of the art of Curie temperature Tc, which is directly proportional to the exchange integrals, makes sense to the high-frequency and high-reliability microwave devices. Challenge remains as finding a quantitative way to reveal the relationship between the Curie temperature and the exchange integrals for doped barium hexaferrite...