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Volume 107, Issue 3

June 2012

Soft Materials for Electromechanical Transducers

Issue Editors:

Siegfried Bauer,
Gerhard Sessler

32 articles in this issue

Thermophoresis/diffusion as a plausible mechanism for unipolar resistive switching in metal–oxide–metal memristors
Dmitri B. Strukov
Fabien Alibart
R. Stanley Williams
Invited paper 31 March 2012 Pages: 509 - 518
Curie temperatures of CoPt ultrathin continuous films
Wupeng Cai
Shinji Muraishi
Ronghai Yu
Rapid communication 17 April 2012 Pages: 519 - 523
Fabrication of three-focal diffractive lenses by two-photon polymerization technique
Vladimir Osipov
Leonid L. Doskolovich
Boris Chichkov
Rapid communication 30 March 2012 Pages: 525 - 529
Dynamic performance of dielectric elastomers utilized as acoustic actuators
K. Hochradel
S. J. Rupitsch
P. Steinmann
Invited paper 25 February 2012 Pages: 531 - 538
The effect of mechanical relaxation on ultra-fast charge pulses in flexible epoxy resin nanocomposites
G. C. Montanari
M. Xu
L. A. Dissado
Invited paper 02 March 2012 Pages: 539 - 551
Pressure dependence of space charge deposition in piezoelectric polymer foams: simulations and experimental verification
Scott Harris
Axel Mellinger
Invited paper 25 February 2012 Pages: 553 - 558
Electrocaloric effect in ferroelectric polymers
S. G. Lu
B. Rozic
R. Pirc
Invited paper 07 March 2012 Pages: 559 - 566
Review on the properties of the ferrorelaxor polymers and some new recent developments
François Bauer
Invited paper 29 February 2012 Pages: 567 - 573
Spectral density representation of dielectric mixtures
Enis Tuncer
Invited paper 29 February 2012 Pages: 575 - 582
Dielectric elastomer and ferroelectret films combined in a single device: how do they reinforce each other?
Werner Wirges
Sebastian Raabe
Xunlin Qiu
Invited paper 29 February 2012 Pages: 583 - 588
Chemical and physical surface modification of PTFE films—an approach to produce stable electrets
D. Rychkov
M. Yablokov
A. Rychkov
Invited paper 25 February 2012 Pages: 589 - 596
Dielectric characteristics of CaCu₃Ti₄O₁₂/P(VDF-TrFE) nanocomposites
Lin Zhang
Xiaobing Shan
Z.-Y. Cheng
Invited paper 28 February 2012 Pages: 597 - 602
Relaxation processes and structural transitions in stretched films of polyvinylidene fluoride and its copolymer with hexafluoropropylene
Peter Frübing
Feipeng Wang
Michael Wegener
Invited paper 28 February 2012 Pages: 603 - 611
Piezoelectric performance of fluor polymer sandwiches with different void structures
Kexing Lou
Xiaoqing Zhang
Zhongfu Xia
Invited paper 28 February 2012 Pages: 613 - 620
Fluoroethylenepropylene ferroelectrets with patterned microstructure and high, thermally stable piezoelectricity
X. Zhang
J. Hillenbrand
K. Lou
Invited paper 01 March 2012 Pages: 621 - 629
Measurements of the thermal, dielectric, piezoelectric, pyroelectric and elastic properties of porous PZT samples
Sidney B. Lang
Erling Ringgaard
Invited paper 06 March 2012 Pages: 631 - 638
Piezoelectric property of hot pressed electrospun poly(γ-benzyl-α, L-glutamate) fibers
Kailiang Ren
William L. Wilson
S. Michael Yu
Invited paper 29 February 2012 Pages: 639 - 646
AC surface photovoltage of indium phosphide nanowire networks
Andrew J. Lohn
Nobuhiko P. Kobayashi
OriginalPaper 06 March 2012 Pages: 647 - 651
High-temperature laser annealing for thin film polycrystalline silicon solar cell on glass substrate
A. Chowdhury
J. Schneider
A. Slaoui
OriginalPaper 29 February 2012 Pages: 653 - 659
Sonochemical approach for rapid growth of zinc oxide nanowalls
Avinash P. Nayak
Aaron M. Katzenmeyer
M. Saif Islam
OriginalPaper 03 April 2012 Pages: 661 - 667
Effects of the embedding kinetics on the surface nano-morphology of nano-grained Au and Ag films on PS and PMMA layers annealed above the glass transition temperature
F. Ruffino
V. Torrisi
M. G. Grimaldi
OriginalPaper 14 March 2012 Pages: 669 - 683
Effect of scratching speed on deformation of soda–lime–silica glass
Payel Bandyopadhyay
Arjun Dey
Anoop K. Mukhopadhyay
OriginalPaper 15 March 2012 Pages: 685 - 690
CdSe-ZnS quantum dots as temperature sensors during thermal coagulation of bovine serum albumin (BSA) solder
Evelin Jaschinski
Martin Wehner
OriginalPaper 17 March 2012 Pages: 691 - 696
Dielectric properties of CaCu₃Ti₄O₁₂–silicone resin composites
Sanjesh Babu
Kirti Singh
Anil Govindan
OriginalPaper Open access 14 April 2012 Pages: 697 - 700
Gallium-based thermal interface material with high compliance and wettability
Yunxia Gao
Jing Liu
OriginalPaper 30 March 2012 Pages: 701 - 708
Synthesis and functionalization study of hierarchical ZnO nanowires for potential nitroaromatic sensing applications
Anurag Gupta
Bruce C. Kim
Paul Ruffin
OriginalPaper 31 March 2012 Pages: 709 - 714
Structural and optical properties of electrohydrodynamically atomized TiO₂ nanostructured thin films
Kyung-Hyun Choi
Navaneethan Duraisamy
Jeongdai Jo
OriginalPaper 11 February 2012 Pages: 715 - 722
Binder-free composite electrodes using carbon nanotube networks as a host matrix for activated carbon microparticles
Jesse Smithyman
Andrew Moench
Chuck Zhang
OriginalPaper 07 February 2012 Pages: 723 - 731
Structural and dielectric properties of La- and Ti-modified K_0.5Na_0.5NbO₃ ceramics
J. Fuentes
J. Portelles
J. M. Siqueiros
OriginalPaper 08 February 2012 Pages: 733 - 738
Electrical conductivity of BaTi₄O₉ film prepared by laser chemical vapor deposition method
Dongyun Guo
Takashi Goto
Lianmeng Zhang
OriginalPaper 16 February 2012 Pages: 739 - 742
Enhancing transmission efficiency of bending waveguide based on graded sonic crystals using antireflection structures
Liang-Yu Wu
Lien-Wen Chen
OriginalPaper 16 February 2012 Pages: 743 - 748
Fabrication of coaxial nanowire heterostructures: SiO_x nanowires with conformal TiO₂ coatings
Avi Shalav
Dinesh K. Venkatachalam
Robert G. Elliman
OriginalPaper 23 February 2012 Pages: 749 - 754