How Specific Atoms Move in Dielectric Materials (IMAGE)

North Carolina State University

How Specific Atoms Move in Dielectric Materials

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Researchers have measured how the atoms within electrically insulating solids reorient due to an applied electric field. Shown here for Na1/2Bi1/2TiO3, bismuth ions (purple) align along the electric field direction relative to their surrounding titanium ions (blue). Oxygen ions not shown.

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Tedi-Marie Usher

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