Layer splitting by helium and/or hydrogen implantation and wafer bonding was applied to transfer thin single-crystalline ferroelectric layers onto different substrates. The optimum conditions for achieving blistering/splitting after post-implantation annealing were experimentally obtained for LiNbO3, LaAlO3, SrTiO3 single crystals and PLZT ceramic. Under certain implantation conditions large ar...

PLZT 8.8-9.5/65/35 electrooptic (EO) devices subject to electric fields on the order of 1 V m μ can become highly scattering and depolarizing as well as exhibit high-order EO effects. We describe a method of modeling EO modulators that encounters for these effects. Utilizing these characteristics in simulating surface electrode devices we compare our model to measurements of a fabricated device...

Waste heat can be directly converted into electrical energy by performing the Olsen cycle on pyroelectric materials. The Olsen cycle consists of two isothermal and two isoelectric field processes in the electric displacement versus electric field diagram. This paper reports on the electrical energy generated by lanthanum-doped lead zirconate titanate (8/65/35 PLZT) subjected to the Olsen cycle....