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Marin Alexe, University of Warwick
Thursday 03 December 2020, 15:00-16:00
Functionalities induced by symmetry breaking
- đ¤ Speaker: Marin Alexe, University of Warwick
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 03 December 2020, 15:00 - 16:00
- đ Venue: https://zoom.us/j/92811261822?pwd=ZFYxdFo0UHdHb0djTnRTS1JwYnlKZz09 Meeting ID: 928 1126 1822 Passcode: 012201
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Malavika Nair
Abstract
Effects such as piezoelectricity, pyroelectricity, photogalvanic effect, etc. occurs spontaneously only in materials with broken symmetry. We will show here that similar effects can be induced in centrosymmetric materials by lowering the innate symmetry using elastic and electric fields. This offers new avenues for developing new devices, such as pyroelectric semiconductors, that are largely forbidden by the native materials.
Series This talk is part of the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy Seminar Series series.
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