Graphene probe to explore the surface polarization in SrTiO3 without damage

2021 ◽  
Vol 119 (7) ◽  
pp. 071604
Author(s):  
Heng Yue ◽  
Anqi Hu ◽  
Qiaoli Liu ◽  
Xia Guo
Keyword(s):  
Surface Polarization

SENSOR PVDF DENGAN POLARISASI PERMUKAAN SEBAGAI PENDETEKSI GAYA POTONG PADA MESIN GURDI

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditya Nugraha ◽  
Masri Bin Ardin
Keyword(s):  
Cutting Force ◽  
Output Signal ◽  
Axial Loading ◽  
Force Sensor ◽  
Maximum Deviation ◽  
Drilling Machine ◽  
Sensor Output ◽  
Sensor Surface ◽  
Surface Polarization ◽  
Tangential Directions

PVDF sensor is a sensor that is often used to measure force, strain, vibration and heat. In this study, PVDF sensors with surface polarization are used to detect cutting forces on the machine. The PVDF sensor that has been polarized on the surface is placed in the chuck part of the engine. Measuring instrumen for testing and calibrating PVDF sensors is oscilloscope with increased loading and reduced axial and tangential directions. After the calibration process, the PVDF sensor was used to measure cutting force on drilling machine, and then the results were compared with the PCB piezotronics force sensor. The PVDF sensor output signal is measured and studied for its voltage using an oscilloscope, where the output signal is compared to the weight given to the PVDF sensor. From the results of these tests indicate that the maximum deviation in axial loading is 0.32V while the tangential loading is 0.31VKeywords. PVDF sensor, Surface polarization, Drilling machine, Cutting force

Surface polarization enables high charge separation in TiO2 nanorod photoanode

Nano Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Ma ◽  
Keke Huang ◽  
Xiaofeng Wu ◽  
Meng Wang ◽  
Shouhua Feng
Keyword(s):  
Charge Separation ◽  
High Charge ◽  
Tio2 Nanorod ◽  
Surface Polarization

A study on the propagation of surface polarization errors to the top of atmosphere

2021 ◽  
Vol 248 ◽  
pp. 118240
Author(s):  
Wei Chen ◽  
Yujiao Zhu ◽  
Haimeng Zhao ◽  
Huimin Tian ◽  
Jouni Peltoniemi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Polarization

Dynamics of Ferroelectric and Nematic Liquid Crystals Confined in Porous Matrices

1994 ◽  
Vol 366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fouad M. Aliev
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Heterogeneous Media ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Pore Wall ◽  
Polar Molecules ◽  
Average Pore ◽  
Surface Polarization ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Frequency Relaxation

ABSTRACTWe performed dielectric spectroscopy measurements to study dynamics of collective modes of ferroelectric (FLC) and molecular motion of nematic (NLC) liquid crystals with polar molecules confined in silica macroporous and microporous glasses with average pore sizes of 1000 Å (volume fraction of pores 40%) and 100 Å (27%) respectively. For FLC the Goldstone and the soft modes are found in macropores. The rotational viscosity associated with the soft mode is about 10 times higher in pores than in the bulk. These modes are not detected in micropores although low frequency relaxation is present. The last one probably is not connected with the nature of liquid crystal but is associated with surface polarization effects typical for two component heterogeneous media. The difference between the dynamics of orientational motion of the polar molecules of NLC in confined geometries and in the bulk is qualitatively determined by the total energy Fs of the interaction between molecules and the surface of the pore wall, which is found Fs ≈ 102erg/cm2.

Distribution of microvilli on dissociated blastomeres from mouse embryos: evidence for surface polarization at compaction

Development ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 339-350
Author(s):  
W. J. D. Reeve ◽  
C. A. Ziomek
Keyword(s):  
Ligand Binding ◽  
Single Cells ◽  
Progressive Increase ◽  
Mouse Embryos ◽  
Cell Stage ◽  
Characteristic Distribution ◽  
Surface Polarization ◽  
Cell Embryo ◽  
Fluorescent Ligand ◽  
Scanning Electron

Cells of mouse embryos develop a polarization of microvillous distribution at compaction. Cells of the 4-cell embryo show a uniform pattern of fluorescent-ligand binding and an even distribution of microvilli. Each cell of the early 8-cell embryo has a uniform distribution both of microvilli and of fluorescent ligand. During the 8-cell stage, there is a progressive increase in the incidence of cells which show microvilli restricted to a region normally on the exposed surface of the embryo. When late 8-cell embryos were disaggregated to single cells, and these sorted by pattern of fluorescent-ligand binding, each of the four patterns of staining related consistently to a characteristic distribution of microvilli as viewed by scanning electron microscopy. The 16-cell embryo possessed an inside population of uniformly labelled cells with a sparse microvillous distribution, and an outside population of cells, each of which had a microvillous pole.

Effects of interface bonding configuration on photoluminescence of ZnO quantum dots–SiOxNy nanocomposite films

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 1155-1162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Yun Peng ◽  
Tsung-Eong Hsieh ◽  
Chia-Hung Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Dots ◽  
Nanocomposite Films ◽  
Photoemission Spectroscopy ◽  
Yellow Emission ◽  
Interface Bonding ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Hole Trapping ◽  
Radio Frequency Sputtering ◽  
Surface Polarization ◽  
Zno Quantum Dots

Nanocomposite films containing ZnO quantum dots (QDs) and SiOxNy matrix were prepared by target-attached radio frequency sputtering. Photoluminescence (PL) dominated by violet and blue emissions was observed from all ZnO QD–SiOxNy nanocomposite films with dot diameters ranging from 2.77 to 6.65 nm. X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) revealed the formation of nitrogen-correlated bonding configurations in both the SiOxNy matrix and the dot/matrix interfaces. The nitrogen-correlated configuration at the interface produced a substantial polarization effect at dot surface. The suppression of green-yellow emission observed in photoluminescence spectra of all samples was ascribed to the hole-trapping process promoted by the enhancement of the surface polarization.

IP interpretation in environmental investigations

Geophysics ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee D. Slater ◽  
David Lesmes
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiments ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Environmental Parameters ◽  
Clay Content ◽  
Chemistry Laboratory ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Resistivity Method ◽  
Surface Polarization ◽  
Capacitive Properties ◽  
Diffusion Polarization

The induced polarization (IP) response of rocks and soils is a function of lithology and fluid conductivity. IP measurements are sensitive to the low‐frequency capacitive properties of rocks and soils, which are controlled by diffusion polarization mechanisms operating at the grain‐fluid interface. IP interpretation typically is in terms of the conventional field IP parameters: chargeability, percentage frequency effect, and phase angle. These parameters are dependent upon both surface polarization mechanisms and bulk (volumetric) conduction mechanisms. Consequently, they afford a poor quantification of surface polarization processes of interest to the field geophysicist. A parameter that quantifies the magnitude of surface polarization is the normalized chargeability, defined as the chargeability divided by the resistivity magnitude. This parameter is proportional to the quadrature conductivity measured in the complex resistivity method. For nonmetallic minerals, the quadrature conductivity and normalized chargeability are closely related to lithology (through the specific surface area) and surface chemistry. Laboratory and field experiments were performed to determine the dependence of the standard IP parameters and the normalized chargeability on two important environmental parameters: salinity and clay content. The laboratory experiments illustrate that the chargeability is strongly correlated with the sample resistivity, which depends on salinity, porosity, saturation, and clay content. The normalized chargeability is shown to be independent of the sample resistivity and it is proportional to the quadrature conductivity, which is directly related to the surface polarization processes. Laboratory‐derived relationships between conductivity and salinity, and normalized chargeability and clay content, are extended to the interpretation of 1‐D and 2‐D field‐IP surveys. In the 2‐D survey, the apparent conductivity and normalized chargeability data are used to segment the images into relatively clay‐free and clay‐rich zones. A similar approach can eventually be used to predict relative variations in the subsurface clay content, salinity and, perhaps, contaminant concentrations.

DNA replication and compaction in the cleaving embryo of the mouse

Development ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-148
Author(s):  
Roger K. W. Smith ◽  
Martin H. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Dna Replication ◽  
Dna Polymerase ◽  
Mouse Embryo ◽  
Cell Number ◽  
Reversible Inhibitor ◽  
Cell Stage ◽  
Dna Polymerase Alpha ◽  
Surface Polarization ◽  
Continuous Presence ◽  
Almost All

The effects of aphidicolin, a reversible inhibitor of DNA polymerase alpha, both on replication and on development of the mouse embryo from the 2- and 4-cell stages to the compacted late 8-cell stage have been assessed. The continuous presence of aphidicolin from G1 of the 4-cell stage resulted in inhibition of DNA replication and prevention of division from 4 to 8 cells, but was without effect on the timing or incidence of cell flattening, surface polarization and cytoplasmic polarization. The continuous presence of aphidicolin from G1 of the 2-cell stage resulted in inhibition of DNA replication, division, and polarization. Some slight intercellular flattening in a few embryos did occur. If addition of aphidicolin was delayed by 10 h to early in G2 of the 2-cell stage, further rounds of replication were blocked and some embryos failed to cleave to 4-cells. Nevertheless, almost all embryos showed evidence of flattening and polarization regardless of cell number. In contrast, if aphidicolin was added in G1 of the 2-cell stage and removed after 10 h, the cells showed delayed DNA replication, little evidence of division, and no cell flattening or polarization. We conclude that DNA replication at the 2-cell stage may be essential for the components of compaction studied, but that DNA replication at the 4- and 8-cell stages is not.

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