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A New Simplified Method to Evaluate the Property Parameters of Polycrystalline Magnetic Caloric Materials
The magnetic entropy change and other relevant property parameters were calculated by the simplified method proposed by Mahmoud A. Hamad (referred to as the MAH method) and the conventional method, respectivel...
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Fabrication of lead titanate nanocrystals via gas-bubbling sol–gel process
With Pb(CH3COO)2 · 3H2O and Ti(C4H9O)4 as precursor materials, (CH3)2CHOH and ammonium tartrate as solvent and surfactant, respectively, the ferroelectric lead titanate (PT) nanocrystals of tailorable sizes were ...
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The local structure characterization and resulting phase-transition mechanism of amorphous ZrO2
In the framework of Faber-Ziman's formalism, the radial atomic number density distributions ρ(r) for two amorphous ZrO2-gel samples have been derived, and used to perform local structure simulations based on the ...
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Microstructure study of Sm, Mn-modified PbTiO3 piezoelectric ceramics by XRD profile-fitting technique
By using the X-ray diffraction profile-fitting technique, the microstructures of Sm, Mn-modified PbTiO3 piezoelectric ceramic discs, including ferroelectric domain sizes, microstrains, and their variations with t...