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    • A flexoelectric microelectromechanical system on silicon 

      Bhaskar, Umesh Kumar; Banerjee, Nirupam; Abdollahi Hosnijeh, Amir; Wang, Zhen; Scholm, Darrell G.; Rijnders, Guus; Catalan, Gustau (2016)
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      Flexoelectricity allows a dielectric material to polarize in response to a mechanical bending moment and, conversely, to bend in response to an electric field. Compared with piezoelectricity, flexoelectricity is a weak ...
    • Flexoelectric MEMS: towards an electromechanical strain diode 

      Bhaskar, Umesh Kumar; Banerjee, Nirupam; Abdollahi Hosnijeh, Amir; Solanas, E.; Rijnders, Guus; Catalan, Gustau (2016)
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      Piezoelectricity and flexoelectricity are two independent but not incompatible forms of electromechanical response exhibited by nanoscale ferroelectrics. Here, we show that flexoelectricity can either enhance or suppress ...