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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 92, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.094101
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- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [DPI2011-26589, FIS2013-48668]
- ERC Starting Grant [308023]
- Severo Ochoa Excellence Award of ICN2
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
- European Research Council (ERC) [308023] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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Cracks generate the largest strain gradients that any material can withstand. Flexoelectricity (coupling between strain gradient and polarization) must therefore play an important role in fracture physics. Here we use a self-consistent continuum model to evidence two consequences of flexoelectricity in fracture: the resistance to fracture increases as structural size decreases, and it becomes asymmetric with respect to the sign of polarization. The latter phenomenon manifests itself in a range of intermediate sizes where piezo- and flexoelectricity compete. In BaTiO3 at room temperature, this range spans from 0.1 to 50 nm, a typical thickness range for epitaxial ferroelectric thin films.
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