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Local mechanical properties of perovskite oxide ferroelectric materials

Author(s): Katarina Žiberna (Author), Andreja Benčan Golob (Supervisor), Hana Uršič Nemevšek (Co-Supervisor)

Year: 2025

Type: Doctoral dissertation

Ferroelectric materials have the ability to convert electrical energy into mechanical energy and vice versa, which makes them widely used as sensors, actuators, and ultrasonic transducers. While their electrical and electromechanical properties are well studied, mechanical properties like Young’s modulus (E) and hardness (H) remain known to a lesser extent. …

Atomically resolved transmission electron microscopy and in-situ voltage driven dynamic response of domain walls in lead-free ferroelectrics

Author(s): Oana-Andreea Condurache (Author), Andreja Benčan Golob (Supervisor), Goran Dražić (Co-Supervisor)

Year: 2023

Type: Doctoral dissertation

Ferroelectric domain walls (DWs) are nano-to-atomic-scale interfaces that separate domains of different polar order. What makes DWs so interesting is their dynamic nature in an electric field, which offers an exciting potential for nanoscale and atomic-scale applications, but, also, more generally, the dynamics of DWs is linked to a fundamental …