Free-standing piezoelectric, ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate nanostructures

摘要

A technique for fabricating freestanding, piezoelectrically active ferroelectric nanotubes and other nanostructures from lead zirconate titanate (PZT) has been developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) in Atlanta, USA. The technique - called soft template infiltration - enables the production of ferroelectric nanostructures with user-defined shapes, location and pattern variation across the same substrate.