Ferroelectrics - Applications

prefaceFERROELECTRICS - APPLICATIONS......Page 1 Sensors and Actuators......Page 13 Giant k31 Relaxor Single-Crystal Plate and Their Applications......Page 15 MEMS Based on Thin Ferroelectric Layers......Page 47 Periodically Poled Acoustic Wave-Guide and Transducers for Radio-Frequency Applications......Page 71 Ferroelectric Polymer for Bio-Sonar Replica......Page 87 Ferroelectric Materials for Small-Scale Energy Harvesting Devices and Green Energy Products......Page 107 Memories......Page 127 Future Memory Technology and Ferroelectric Memory as an Ultimate Memory Solution......Page 129 Ultrahigh Density Probe-based Storage Using Ferroelectric Thin Films......Page 169 Fabrication and Study on One-Transistor-Capacitor Structure of Nonvolatile Random Access Memory TFT Devices Using Ferroelectric Gated Oxide Film......Page 191 Ferroelectric Copolymer-Based Plastic Memory Transistos......Page 207 Use of FRAM Memories in Spacecrafts......Page 225 Adaptive Boolean Logic Using Ferroelectrics Capacitors as Basic Units of Artificial Neurons......Page 243 Blank Page......Page 12 Ferroelectric materials have been and still are widely used in many applications, that have moved from sonar towards breakthrough technologies such as memories or optical devices. This book is a part of a four volume collection (covering material aspects, physical effects, characterization and modeling, and applications) and focuses on the application of ferroelectric devices to innovative systems. In particular, the use of these materials as varying capacitors, gyroscope, acoustics sensors and actuators, microgenerators and memory devices will be exposed, providing an up-to-date review of recent scientific findings and recent advances in the field of ferroelectric devices