Piezoelectric-effect-induced formation of nanorings, nanohelices, and straight nanobelts of ZnO

Soft Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-44

  Wang, Bo Lin ^a,b   Cao, Yu Ning ^a   Ou Yang, Zhong Can ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Bending; Flexoelectric effect; Liquid crystal; Piezoelectric effect; Polarization; Strain

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CRYSTALS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POLARIZATION; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; ZINC OXIDE;

FLEXOELECTRIC EFFECTS; NANOHELICES;

NANOBELTS;

EID: 39749170241     PISSN: 1539445X     EISSN: 15394468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15394450801887299     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Kong, X.Y. and Wang, Z.L. (2003) Nano. Lett., 3: 1625.
2. Wang, Z.L. (2004) J. Phys.: Condens. Matter., 16: R829.
3. Wander, A., Schedin, F., Steadman, P., Norris, A., McGrath, R., Turner, T.S., Thornton, G., and Harrison, N.M. (2001) Phys. Rev. Lett., 86: 3811.
4. Tasker, P.W. (1979) J. Phys. C, 12: 4977.
5. Dulub, O., Diebold, U., and Kresse, G. (2003) Phys. Rev. Lett., 90: 016102.
6. Meyer, B. and Marx, D. (2003) Phys. Rev. B, 67: 035403.
7. Dal Corso, A., Posternak, M., Resta, R., and Baldereschi, A. (1994) Phys. Rev. B, 50: 10715.
8. Jerphagnon, J. and Newkirt, H.W. (1971) Appl. Phys. Lett., 18: 245.
9. Miller, R.C. (1964) Appl. Phys. Lett., 5: 17.
10. Kong, X.Y., Ding, Y., Yang, R., and Wang, Z.L. (2004) Science, 303: 1348.
11. Bernardini, F., Fiorentini, V., and Vanderbilt, D. (1997) Phys. Rev. B, 56: R10024.
12. Meyer, R.B. (1969) Phys. Rev. Lett., 22: 918.
13. Ou-Yang, Z.C., Hu, J.G., and Liu, J.X. (1992) Mod. Phys. Lett. B, 6: 1577.
14. Ou-Yang, Z.C., Liu, J.X., and Xie, Y.Z. (1999) Geometric Methods in the Elastic Theory of Membranes in Liquid Crystal Phases; World Scientific: Singapore.
15. Tong, H., Wang, B.L., and Ou-Yang, Z.C. (2007) Thin Solid Films, doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2007.04.155 (in press).
16. Wang, Z.L. and Song, J.H. (2006) Science, 312: 242.
17. Landau, L.D. and Lifshitz, E.M. (1986) Theory of Elasticity, Course of Theoretical Physics, 3rd edn.; Pergamon: Oxford, Vol. 7.
18. Landau, L.D. and Lifshitz, E.M. (1984) Electrodynamics of Continuous Media, Course of Theoretical Physics, 2nd edn.; Pergamon: Oxford, Vol. 8.
19. Helfrich, W.Z. (1973) Naturforsch., 28C: 693.
20. Ou-Yang, Z.C., Su, Z.B., and Wang, C.L. (1997) Phys. Rev. Lett., 78: 4055.
21. Komura, S. and Ou-Yang, Z.C. (1998) Phys. Rev. Lett., 81: 473.
22. Tu, Z.C., Li, Q.X., and Hu, X. (2006) Phys. Rev. B, 73: 115402.
23. Tu, Z.C. and Ou-Yang, Z.C. (2003) Phys. Rev. E, 68: 61915.
24. Li, F., Ding, Y., Gao, P.X., Xin, X.Q., and Wang, Z.L. (2004) Angew. Chem., 116: 5350.
25. Gao, P.X., Ding, Y., Mai, W., Hughes, W.L., Lao, C., and Wang, Z.L. (2005) Science, 309: 1700.
26. Hughes, W.L. and Wang, Z.L. (2004) J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126: 6703.