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Behaviour of ferroelectrics in an electric field
Krejčí, Josef ; Rozsívalová, Zdenka (referee) ; Frk, Martin (advisor)
The submitted thesis describes characteristics and use of ferroelectric materials which find their utilization in electrotechnical and electronics industry. The thesis is mainly aimed at their behaviour in the electrical field at various intensity and also focuses on their diagnostic methods. The method using an oscilloscope is selected as the most suitable and described here in more detail. Measuring laboratory workplace for detection of characteristics of ferroelectric materials in the electrical field has been innovated with available equipment and then its utility has been verified. Temperature and electric tension dependence of components of complex permittivity and electric condition of the material has been scaled using selected samples of ferroelectrics. A text in an electronic form has been integral part of the thesis. The text can be used as an instruction manual for laboratory trainings.
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Ferroelectrics in an electric field
Pavelka, Petr ; Rozsívalová, Zdenka (referee) ; Frk, Martin (advisor)
The submitted thesis describes characteristics and use of ferroelectric materials which find their utilization in electrotechnical and electronics industry. The thesis is mainly aimed at their behaviour in the electrical field at various intensity. The method using an osciloscope is selected for measuring. For the main measuring in part of this thesis was produced experimental wafer with five samples which were subsequently mesuared. The VEE PRO program was used for creating of collecting datas for histeresis loop and it’s functionality was checked on wafer with five examples in measuring. During this measuring was also measured electric tension dependence of components of complex permittivity.
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Ab initio calculation of doping in Ni2MnGa alloy
Janovec, Jozef ; Černý, Miroslav (referee) ; Zelený, Martin (advisor)
Cieľom tejto práce je teoretické štúdium systému Ni-Mn-Ga, vykazujúceho efekt magnetickej tvarovej pamäti. Pri výpočtoch bola použitá metóda Exaktných Mufiin-Tin Orbitálov v kombinácii s aproximáciou koherentného potenciálu vrámci Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker formalizmu. Totálna energia bola spočítaná pomocou metódy úplnej nábojovej hustoty. Skúmaný bol vplyv dopovania zinkom alebo kadmiom na totálne energie pozdĺž tetragonálnej deformačnej dráhy a následne na teplotu martenzitickej premeny TM a Curieho teplotu TC. Taktiež boli skúmané nestechiometrické zliatiny prebytkom Mn na úkor Ga. Výsledky predikujú nárast TM po všetkých pozorovaných substitúciách v podmriežke Ga a pokles TM po substitúciách v podmriežke Mn. Curieho teplotu znižujú všetky študované substitúcie s výnimkou zmeny magnetického usporiadania v martensite nestechiometrickej zliatiny.
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Topological insulators and magnetic order
Šebesta, Jakub ; Carva, Karel (advisor) ; Hamrle, Jaroslav (referee) ; Železný, Jakub (referee)
The occurrence of various defects can strongly influence the physical properties of real materials. Depending on their type, new outstanding features can arise, but also charac- teristic behavior might be lost. This thesis is dedicated to the impact of diverse disorder's presence on the physical behavior of three-dimensional topological insulators, namely, the well-known Bi2Se3 compound. Despite possessing a band gap in the bulk, these materials host unique metallic surface states protected by the time-reversal symmetry. Thus, the surface states are robust against perturbation, which respects the protecting symmetry. Breaking the symmetry, e.g. by the magnetic field, can open the surface gaps. In this work, the influence of the magnetic as well as native chemical defects, occurring in the real samples, on the electronic structure is described. Notably, the dispersion of the sur- face metallic states is followed up. Since the surface gap can be opened by the magnetic field, magnetic exchange interactions and related Curie temperatures of magnetic defects are thoroughly studied. Particularly, the influence of disorder on the character of the exchange interactions and related Curie temperatures is described. Dealing with layered systems, the behavior of planar defects might be inspected. Therefore, the...
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Physical properties of layered materials with Van der Waals bond
Michal, Ondřej ; Pospíšil, Jiří (advisor) ; Míšek, Martin (referee)
This thesis focuses on the study of van der Waals materials predicted to be high- temperature ferromagnets and methods of the influence of the value of magnetic ordering temperatures. We focused on the well-known van der Waals ferromagnet VI3 and its doping with Se and Te. The Curie temperature of undoped VI3 is about 49 K. The doping with Se and Te changed the TC only slightly, within 1 K. The VSe2 and VTe2 were also prepared in a polycrystalline form to test their magnetic properties. We attempted to prepare CrSeBr by physical vapour transport method; however, with no satisfactory result. Multiple phase products with binary stoichiometries were obtained. 1
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Historical use of waste from the Jáchymov uranium factory as a building material
Voháňková, Michaela ; Goliáš, Viktor (advisor) ; Šálek, Ondřej (referee)
Between 1853 and 1939, colourful and highly sought-after uranium paints were produced on an industrial scale in Jáchymov. Until the discovery of radium by Marie Curie Skłodowska in 1898, the waste from production was considered essentially worthless. In the 1970s, the use of materials with increased radioactivity was detected in buildings in Jáchymov. Some of the most affected buildings were demolished. In the 1990s, remediation interventions took place during which these building materials (plaster and mortar) were removed from most of the buildings. During this period, gamma radiation doses as well as radioactivity and uranium were measured in the laboratory. The mineralogical and phase character of the material was not investigated, which was the main objective for this bachelor thesis. The presumption of preservation of at least some of the surviving houses was minimal. Nevertheless, a few unique cases have been found. A total of 11 buildings were found along a 12 km tour whose plaster showed elevated radioactivity ranging from 3.2 to 28.4 μGy/h. Sampling was carried out at 6 of them. Determination of 226 Ra mass activities was performed by laboratory gamma spectrometry, uranium contents were determined by instrumental neutron activation analysis. In the study set, the radium activities reached...
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Substrátem kontrolované fyzikální vlastnosti tenkých vrstev magnetických oxidů pro spintronické aplikace
Maleček, Tomáš ; Veis, Martin (advisor) ; Václavková, Diana (referee)
As conventional electronics approaches its fundamental limits, new paradigms are re- quired. Integration of new spintronic materials with current silicon technology shows great promise. This thesis demonstrates the possibility of growing textured stress-free La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 (LSMO) thin films on silicon with properties comparable to epitaxi- ally grown layers on SrTiO3 (STO). Growth of LSMO is achieved by a two-dimensional nanosheet (NS) seed layer of Ca2Nb3O10 inducing epitaxial stabilization of LSMO films. Samples of LSMO on NS/Si, prepared by pulsed laser deposition, have been shown to have lower magnetization than samples of LSMO on STO yet also possess a higher Curie temperature by more than 10 K. Spectral dependence of the full permittivity tensor was calculated from optical and magneto-optical measurements. Spectra of the off-diagonal element have been fitted with three diamagnetic transitions located around 1.9, 2.9 and 3.5 eV for samples on NS/Si as well as for samples on STO. Similarities between the samples open the possibility of integration of LSMO into silicon technology using NS. Temperature-dependent optical and magneto-optical properties of a sample of LSMO on STO have been evaluated.
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The search for new spin-liquid materials - synthesis of kagome and pyrochlore fluoride magnetics
Kancko, Andrej ; Colman, Ross Harvey (advisor) ; Klicpera, Milan (referee)
This thesis focuses on the synthesis and characterization of a new AA′ B2F7-type pyrochlore fluoride family, NaCdB2F7 (B = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) predicted by a cal- culated pyrochlore structural tolerance factor, as well as the synthesis of new kagome flu- orides Na3CdCo3AlF14, Rb2SnCo3F12 and Cs2ZrCo3F12, aiming to expand the knowledge about the frustrated pyrochlore and kagome antiferromagnets. The synthesis techniques included solid-state reactions, laser floating zone melting and melt crystallization. All pyrochlore fluorides were successfully synthesized, although only B = Zn, Co, Mn and Ni as phase-pure single crystals. PXRD refinements confirmed the Fd̄3m structure in all synthesized pyrochlores, while SCXRD showed full Na/Cd disorder on the A-site and no A/B intersite mixing in the Co pyrochlore. Magnetization measurements revealed domi- nant antiferromagnetic interactions evidenced by large negative Curie-Weiss temperatures (from -38 K in Mn to -108 K in Co), with a spin-freezing transition below 4 K in B = Co, Mn and Ni, evidenced by further AC susceptibility and heat capacity measurements in Co and Mn. Cu showed no spin freezing down to the lowest-measured temperature, 1.8 K, implying a very large magnetic frustration. Fe has not been measured due to the large impurity content. The...
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Magnetic and magnetoelastic properties of f-d intermetallics with high content of 3d-metal
Gorbunov, Denis ; Andreev, Alexander (advisor) ; Kamarád, Jiří (referee) ; Svoboda, Pavel (referee)
Fundamental magnetic properties have been studied in RFexAl12-x (R - heavy rare-earth element) compounds with the tetragonal crystal structure of the ThMn12 type. In the homogeneity range 4 ≤ x ≤ 6, exchange interactions and magnetocrystalline anisotropy of the Fe sublattice are significantly modified as found in LuFexAl12-x with non-magnetic Lu. With increasing Fe content, antiferromagnetic exchange interactions weaken and ferromagnetic strengthen. The change of the type of magnetic ordering occurs in the vicinity of x = 5. The Fe sublattice displays an easy-plane magnetic anisotropy that weakens with growing Fe concentration. RFe5Al7 compounds with magnetic R are highly anisotropic ferrimagnets with Curie temperatures from 193 to 262 K. Spontaneous and field-induced magnetic phase transitions of anisotropic and exchange nature have been found in RFe5Al7 by measurements of magnetization and sound propagation. The transitions provide quantitative information on the R-Fe inter-sublattice exchange. A correlation between the R element and the fundamental magnetic properties has been found for RFe5Al7. The Fe magnetic moment is near 8 µB per formula unit. The compounds with R - Tb, Dy, Ho and Er have a compensation of the rare- earth and iron sublattice magnetizations. The compensation point and Curie...
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