Due to the presence of strongly correlated electrons in some of the oxides, the GGA+U method is employed, with U representing the Hubbard-parameter. Similarly to our previous work, we expect to correctly converge to ferromagnetic and non-magnetic states in this way, but not to anti-ferromagnetic states. For the compounds that contain magnetic elements, a ferromagnetic state is initialized in the calculation. A cut-off for the plane waves of 1000 eV is used and a uniform k-point density of approximately 2,000 per reciprocal atom (pra) is employed, which means that the number of atoms per cell multiplied by the number of k-points equals approximately 2,000. In all calculations, we employ the Perdew, Becke and Ernzerhof (PBE) Generalized Gradient Approximation (GGA) for the exchange-correlation functional. Piezoelectric materials are capable of transforming mechanical strain and vibration energy into electrical energy. The first-principles results presented in this work are performed using the projector augmented wave (PAW) method as implemented in the Vienna Ab Initio Simulation Package (VASP). 1 and 2 and created using the open-source MTEX package. For these cases, the response cannot be depicted such as in Figs. Finally, note that for some compounds, a piezoelectric response is only induced by shear deformation rather than tensile or compressive deformation. In that case, the relative magnitudes of the tensor components dictate in which crystallographic direction, the maximum response occurs. 2 shows a more complicated longitudinal piezoelectric modulus-surface for an orthorhombic compound. Piezoelectric Materials and Devices: Applications in Engineering and Medical Sciences provides a complete overview of piezoelectric materials, covering all. By symmetry, this is always the case for cubic piezoelectric materials. As can be seen clearly, the maximum modulus occurs in the family of crystallographic directions. This is for the case of a cubic material. 1 shows an example of how the longitudinal piezoelectric modulus can be represented in 3D. One can think of these quantities as the piezoelectric counterpart of the well-known Young's modulus and the stiffest elastic direction in the context of elasticity-theory. On MP, in addition to the piezoelectric tensor in Voigt-notation, we report the maximum longitudinal piezoelectric modulus of the compound and the corresponding crystallographic direction in which this occurs. This piezoelectric effect only occurs in non-conductive materials. For piezoelectric properties, this isotropic averaging-approach does not quite work due to the requirement that inversion symmetry cannot occur in piezoelectric materials. The effect is reversible, so an electrical charge will cause the material to change shape.

In this way, the single-crystal materials of the iron and electric.

For elastic properties, which are based on a tensor of order 4, isotropic Voigt and Reuss averages can be derived on the bulk and shear moduli. Since the late eighties, people have developed ceramic materials for ferroelectric ceramics.

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