Frontiers of Ferroelectricity: A Special Issue of the Journal of Materials Science
This book presents theory, fundamentals and applications of ferroelectricy. 24 chapters gather reviews and research reports covering the spectrum of ferroelectricity. It describes the current levels of understanding of various aspects of ferroelectricity as presented by authorities in the field. Topics include relaxors, piezoelectrics, microscale and nanoscale studies, polymers and composites, unusual properties, and techniques and devices. The book is intended for physicists, engineers and...
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The book presents theory, fundamentals and some applications of ferroelectricy. The 24 chapters comprise reviews and research reports covering the spectrum of ferroelectricity. It is intended to describe the current levels of understanding of various aspects of ferroelectricity as presented by authorities in the field. Topics include relaxors, piezoelectrics, microscale and nanoscale studies, polymers and composites, unusual properties, and techniques and devices. The information in this book is intended for physicists, engineers and materials scientists working with ferroelectric materials including ceramics, single crystals, polymers, composites and even some biological materials.
Keyword contents viiiPreface 1Self-assembled nanoscale ferroelectrics Marin Alexe Dietrich Hesse 1Factors influencing the piezoelectric behaviour of PZT and other "morphotropic phase boundary" ferroelectrics Andrew J. Bell 13Polar nanoclusters in relaxors R. Blinc V. V. Laguta B. Zalar J. Banys 27Recent progress in relaxor ferroelectrics with perovskite structure A. A. Bokov Z.-G. Ye 31Flexoelectric effects: Charge separation in insulating solids subjected to elastic strain gradients L. Eric Cross 53Piezoelectric anisotropy: Enhanced piezoelectric response along nonpolar directions in perovskite crystals D. Damjanovic M. Budimir M. Davis N. Setter 65Voltage tunable epitaxial Pb[subscript x]Sr2(1-x) TiO[superscript 3] films on sapphire by MOCVD: Nanostructure and microwave properties S. K. Dey C. G. Wang W. Cao S. Bhaskar J. Li G. Subramanyam 77Studies on the relaxor behavior of sol-gel derived Ba(Zr[subscript x]Ti[subscript 1-x])O[subscript 3] (0.30 [less than or equal to] x [less than or equal to] 0.70) thin films A. Dixit S. B.Majumder R. S. Katiyar A. S. Bhalla 87Magnetoelectric coupling, efficiency, and voltage gain effect in piezoelectric-piezomagnetic laminate composites Shuxiang Dong Jie-Fang Li D. Viehland 97Piezoresponse force microscopy and recent advances in nanoscale studies of ferroelectrics A. Gruverman S. V. Kalinin 107Dielectric response of polymer relaxors Bozena Hilczer Hilary Smogor Janina Goslar 117The relaxor enigma - charge disorder and random fields in ferroelectrics Wolfgang Kleemann 129Properties of ferroelectric ultrathin films from first principles Igor A. Kornev Huaxiang Fu Laurent Bellaiche 137Fredholm integral equation of the Laser Intensity Modulation Method (LIMM): Solution with the polynomial regularization and L-curve methods Sidney B. Lang 147Multilayer piezoelectric ceramic transformer with low temperature sintering Longtu Li Ningxin Zhang Chenyang Bai Xiangcheng Chu Zhilun Gui 155A Monte Carlo simulation on domain pattern and ferroelectric behaviors of relaxor ferroelectrics J.-M. Liu S. T. Lau H. L. W. Chan C. L. Choy 163Solid freeform fabrication of piezoelectric sensors and actuators A. Safari M. Allahverdi E. K. Akdogan 177Kinetics of ferroelectric domains: Application of general approach to LiNbO[subscript 3] and Li7aO[subscript 3] Vladimir Ya. Shur 199Ferroelectric transducer arrays for transdermal insulin delivery Benjamin Snyder Seungjun Lee Nadine Barrie Smith Robert E. Newnham 211Loss mechanisms and high power piezoelectrics K. Uchino J. H. Zheng Y. H. Chen X. H. Du J. Ryu Y. Gao S. Ural S. Priya S. Hirose 217Effect of electrical conductivity on poling and the dielectric, pyroelectric and piezoelectric properties of ferroelectric 0-3 composites C. K. Wong F. G. Shin 229Properties of triglycine sulfate/poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) 0-3 composites Y. Yang H. L. W. Chan C. L. Choy 251Near-field acoustic and piezoresponse microscopy of domain structures in ferroelectric material Q. R. Yin H. R. Zeng H. F. Yu G. R. Li 259Normal ferroelectric to ferroelectric relaxor conversion in fluorinated polymers and the relaxor dynamics Shihai Zhang Rob J. Klein Kailiang Ren Baojin Chu Xi Zhang James Runt Q. M. Zhang 271Index 281
