Ebook: Frontiers of Ferroelectricity: A Special Issue of the Journal of Materials Science

The field of ferroelectricity is a very active one. Many hundreds of papers in this field are published each year and a large number of local and international conferences are held. The material in this book originally appeared in the Journal of Materials Science. The special issue entitled Frontiers of Ferroelectricity appeared as Volume 41, Issue 1 of the Journal of Materials Science in January 2006. Researchers and students should find great value in having this complete set of papers available in book form.

The book presents theory, fundamentals and applications of ferroelectricity. It describes the current levels of understanding of various aspects of the subject as presented by authorities in the field. Reviews and research reports cover the spectrum of ferroelectricity. 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.

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The field of ferroelectricity is a very active one. Many hundreds of papers in this field are published each year and a large number of local and international conferences are held. The material in this book originally appeared in the Journal of Materials Science.  The special issue entitled Frontiers of Ferroelectricity appeared as Volume 41, Issue 1 of the Journal of Materials Science in January 2006.  Researchers and students should find great value in having this complete set of papers available in book form.

The book presents theory, fundamentals and applications of ferroelectricity. It describes the current levels of understanding of various aspects of the subject as presented by authorities in the field. Reviews and research reports cover the spectrum of ferroelectricity.  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.

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The field of ferroelectricity is a very active one. Many hundreds of papers in this field are published each year and a large number of local and international conferences are held. The material in this book originally appeared in the Journal of Materials Science.  The special issue entitled Frontiers of Ferroelectricity appeared as Volume 41, Issue 1 of the Journal of Materials Science in January 2006.  Researchers and students should find great value in having this complete set of papers available in book form.

The book presents theory, fundamentals and applications of ferroelectricity. It describes the current levels of understanding of various aspects of the subject as presented by authorities in the field. Reviews and research reports cover the spectrum of ferroelectricity.  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.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Self-assembled nanoscale ferroelectrics....Pages 1-11
Factors influencing the piezoelectric behaviour of PZT and other “morphotropic phase boundary” ferroelectrics....Pages 13-25
Polar nanoclusters in relaxors....Pages 27-30
Recent progress in relaxor ferroelectrics with perovskite structure....Pages 31-52
Flexoelectric effects: Charge separation in insulating solids subjected to elastic strain gradients....Pages 53-63
Piezoelectric anisotropy: Enhanced piezoelectric response along nonpolar directions in perovskite crystals....Pages 65-76
Voltage tunable epitaxial PbxSr(1?x)TiO3 films on sapphire by MOCVD: Nanostructure and microwave properties....Pages 77-86
Magnetoelectric coupling, efficiency, and voltage gain effect in piezoelectric-piezomagnetic laminate composites....Pages 87-96
Piezoresponse force microscopy and recent advances in nanoscale studies of ferroelectrics....Pages 97-106
Dielectric response of polymer relaxors....Pages 107-116
The relaxor enigma — charge disorder and random fields in ferroelectrics....Pages 117-127
Properties of ferroelectric ultrathin films from first principles....Pages 129-136
Fredholm integral equation of the Laser Intensity Modulation Method (LIMM): Solution with the polynomial regularization and L-curve methods....Pages 137-145
Multilayer piezoelectric ceramic transformer with low temperature sintering....Pages 147-153
A Monte Carlo simulation on domain pattern and ferroelectric behaviors of relaxor ferroelectrics....Pages 155-161
Solid freeform fabrication of piezoelectric sensors and actuators....Pages 163-175
Ferroelectric transducer arrays for transdermal insulin delivery....Pages 177-198
Loss mechanisms and high power piezoelectrics....Pages 199-210
Effect of electrical conductivity on poling and the dielectric, pyroelectric and piezoelectric properties of ferroelectric 0–3 composites....Pages 211-216
Properties of triglycine sulfate/poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) 0–3 composites....Pages 217-228
Near-field acoustic and piezoresponse microscopy of domain structures in ferroelectric material....Pages 229-249
Normal ferroelectric to ferroelectric relaxor conversion in fluorinated polymers and the relaxor dynamics....Pages 251-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-270
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