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Recent Advance in Ferroelectric Composites
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Special Issue "Recent Advance in Ferroelectric Composites"

A special issue of Solids (ISSN 2673-6497).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2023 | Viewed by 1634

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Niklas Wolff

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Institute of Materials Science, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Interests: ferroelectric materials; thin films; nanocomposites; nanostructures; transmission electron microscopy; environmental sensing; shape memory alloys; networked matter; power electronic materials
Prof. Dr. Lorenz Kienle

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Institute of Materials Science, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Interests: composite sensors; magneto-plasmonic nanoparticles; chalkogenide thermoelectrics; energy materials, memristive devices; ferroelectric thin films; in operando TEM methods; solid state material analysis

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in the field of ferroelectric materials enable the introduction of new technological standards to address today’s societal needs for processing increasing amounts of energy and information. The latest research is dedicated to the materials themselves, thinking of environmentally friendly material compositions and new classes of ferroelectrics, e.g., wurtzite-type ferroelectrics such as AlScN. Their integration into composite structures offers advanced functionalities through the enhancement or coupling of properties, e.g., mechanoelectrical, for many kinds of applications.

This Special Issue aims to collect recent advances achieved in the field of ferroelectric composites and provide a comprehensive overview for all researchers, both new and well-established in the field.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: energy conversion and storage, MEMS, non-volatile memory, and the next generation of power electronic devices.

We look forward to receiving your contributions. 

Dr. Niklas Wolff
Prof. Dr. Lorenz Kienle
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • power electronic devices
  • non-volatile memory
  • energy conversion and storage
  • thin films
  • advanced architectures
  • nanostructure characterization
  • coupling in composites
  • simulation-based design

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Second-Order Collocation-Based Mixed FEM for Flexoelectric Solids
by
Kevin Tannhäuser
,
Prince Henry Serrao
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Sergey Kozinov
Solids 2023, 4(1), 39-70; https://doi.org/10.3390/solids4010004 - 02 Feb 2023
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Abstract
Flexoelectricity is an electromechanical coupling between the electric field and the mechanical strain gradient, as well as between the mechanical strains and the electric field gradient, observed in all dielectric materials, including those with centrosymmetry. Flexoelectricity demands C1-continuity for straightforward numerical [...] Read more.
Flexoelectricity is an electromechanical coupling between the electric field and the mechanical strain gradient, as well as between the mechanical strains and the electric field gradient, observed in all dielectric materials, including those with centrosymmetry. Flexoelectricity demands C1-continuity for straightforward numerical implementation as the governing equations in the gradient theory are fourth-order partial differential equations. In this work, an alternative collocation-based mixed finite element method for direct flexoelectricity is used, for which a newly developed quadratic element with a high capability of capturing gradients is introduced. In the collocation method, mechanical strains and electric field through independently assumed polynomials are collocated with the mechanical strains and electric field derived from the mechanical displacements and electric potential at collocation points inside a finite element. The mechanical strain gradient and electric field are obtained by taking the directional derivative of the independent mechanical strain and electric field gradients. However, an earlier proposed linear element is unable to capture all mechanical strain gradient components and, thus, simulate flexoelectricity correctly. This problem is solved in the present work by using quadratic shape functions for the mechanical displacements and electric potential with fewer degrees of freedom than the traditional mixed finite element method. A Fortran user-element code is developed by the authors: first, for the linear and, after that, for the quadratic element. After verifying the linear element with numerical results from the literature, both linear and quadratic elements’ behaviors are tested for different problems. It is shown that the proposed second-order collocation-based mixed FEM can capture the flexoelectric behavior better compared to the existing linear formulations. Full article
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