Electromechanical property measurements and microstructure observations using optical microscopy were performed on a [001] c oriented k33 resonator made of 91%Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-9%PbTiO3 single crystal, which was polarized under different electric fields. At room temperature, when the poling field is 1100 V/mm, the electromechanical coupling factor k33 is 0.90 and piezoelectric coefficient d33 is...

Domain inversion (DI) is applied to traveling-wave integrated electrooptic (EO) LiNbO3 modulators to achieve predefined EO frequency response and improved performance with respect to standard single-domain (not domain-inverted) counterparts, including lower driving voltages and larger modulation bandwidths. In particular, when an appropriate poling (DI) is performed along the interaction length...

0.1016/j.nanoen.2 lsevier Ltd. All rig thors. : [email protected] . Zhu), spriya@vt. ntributed equally Abstract We demonstrate the presence of ferroelectric domains in CH3NH3PbI3 by piezoresponse force microscopy and quantify the coercive field to the switching of the polarization of ferroelectric CH3NH3PbI3. For CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cell, negative electric poling decreases the net built-in...

We present measurements of the time development of the dielectric displacement and the remanent polaroization in PVDF for poling times ranging from 1 ~s to 1000 s and poling fields between 0.8 and 2.0 MV /cm. For longer times (0.1 to 1000 s) we determined also the time dependence of the polarization distribution across the film thickness. After applying a steep rectangular HV pulse, the sample ...

We report on the fabrication of ridge waveguides formed in congruent periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN). The were fabricated by periodic poling, proton exchange, subsequent annealing and reverse exchange followed diamond blade dicing. Up to 1 W single-pass second-harmonic generation at 775 nm has been realized 50 mm long with internal conversion efficiency 70%. Furthermore, difference fr...

Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3/polycarbonate (PZT/PC) composite films with different concentration of PZT ferroelectric nanocrystals are prepared. The polarization and dielectric relaxation behavior of PZT ferroelectric nanocrystals are characterized using in situ transmittance and X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements for the first time. It's found that 10% PZT/PC composite film has the largest orientation...

Periodically poled crystal (PPC) is a key component for nonlinear optical applications. Its poling quality relies largely on successful domain inversion and the alignment of spontaneous polarization (SP) vectors in each domain. Here we report the unexpected observation of bulk second harmonic generation (SHG) in PPC when excitation propagating along its optical axis. Based on its tensorial natu...

Electrical poling induces polar ordering of molecules in a grating that has been holographically inscribed on a thin film of polymer with azobenzene side chains. The resulting chi2 grating, seen by second-harmonic-generation (SHG) near-field scanning optical microscopy, can have a periodic structure that is significantly different from the topographical image. The far-field linear and SHG diffr...