Hysteretic galvano-mechanical effect on charging and discharging ionistor structures
M. E. Kompan, V. P. Kuznetsov, Valerii V Rozanov, Alexander V. Yakubovich · Physics of the Solid State · 2004
The size of an ionistor capacitor structure is found to change during its charging and discharging. The specific feature of this effect that distinguishes it from other known effects of changing sizes under electric and magnetic fields (the piezoelectric effect and striction) is the complete hysteresis; i.e., the size reached under the exposure remains unchanged after the field is turned off.