461 research outputs found
The future state: Russian cinema and neoliberal cultural statecraft
This book focusses on Russia’s cultural statecraft in dealing with a number of institutional cultural domains such as education, museums and monuments, high arts and sport. It analyses to what extent Russia’s cultural activities abroad have been used for foreign policy purposes, and perceived as having a political dimension.
Building on the concept of cultural statecraft, the authors present a broad and nuanced view of how Russia sees the role of culture in its external relations, how this shapes the image of Russia, and the ways in which this cultural statecraft is received by foreign audiences. The expert team of contributors consider: what choices are made in fostering this agenda; how Russian state authorities see the purpose and limits of various cultural instruments; to what extent can the authorities shape these instruments; what domains have received more attention and become more politicised and what fields have remained more autonomous. The methodological research design of the book as a whole is a comparative case study comparing the nature of Russian cultural statecraft across time, target countries and diverse cultural domains.
It will be of interest to scholars and students of Russian foreign policy and external relations and those working on the role of culture in world politics
Domain Dynamics in Piezoresponse Force Microscopy: Quantitative Deconvolution and Hysteresis Loop Fine Structure
Domain dynamics in the Piezoresponse Force Spectroscopy (PFS) experiment is
studied using the combination of local hysteresis loop acquisition with
simultaneous domain imaging. The analytical theory for PFS signal from domain
of arbitrary cross-section is developed and used for the analysis of
experimental data on Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 polycrystalline films. The results suggest
formation of oblate domain at early stage of the domain nucleation and growth,
consistent with efficient screening of depolarization field within the
material. The fine structure of the hysteresis loop is shown to be related to
the observed jumps in the domain geometry during domain wall propagation
(nanoscale Barkhausen jumps), indicative of strong domain-defect interactions.Comment: 17 pages, 3 figures, 2 Appendices, to be submmited to Appl. Phys.
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Universal Properties of Ferroelectric Domains
Basing on Ginzburg-Landau approach we generalize the Kittel theory and derive
the interpolation formula for the temperature evolution of a multi-domain
polarization profile P(x,z). We resolve the long-standing problem of the
near-surface polarization behavior in ferroelectric domains and demonstrate the
polarization vanishing instead of usually assumed fractal domain branching. We
propose an effective scaling approach to compare the properties of different
domain-containing ferroelectric plates and films.Comment: Phys. Rev. Lett. to be publishe
Domain enhanced interlayer coupling in ferroelectric/paraelectric superlattices
We investigate the ferroelectric phase transition and domain formation in a
periodic superlattice consisting of alternate ferroelectric (FE) and
paraelectric (PE) layers of nanometric thickness. We find that the polarization
domains formed in the different FE layers can interact with each other via the
PE layers. By coupling the electrostatic equations with those obtained by
minimizing the Ginzburg-Landau functional we calculate the critical temperature
of transition Tc as a function of the FE/PE superlattice wavelength and
quantitatively explain the recent experimental observation of a thickness
dependence of the ferroelectric transition temperature in KTaO3/KNbO3
strained-layer superlattices.Comment: Latest version as was published in PR
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