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. Frontiers of Ferroelectricity......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 ISBN 038738037X......Page 5 CONTENTS BY KEYWORD......Page 9 Preface......Page 10 Self-assembled nanoscale ferroelectrics......Page 11 Factors influencing the piezoelectric behaviour of PZT and other “morphotropic phase boundary” ferroelectrics......Page 22 Polar nanoclusters in relaxors......Page 35 Recent progress in relaxor ferroelectrics with perovskite structure......Page 49 Flexoelectric effects: Charge separation in insulating solids subjected to elastic strain gradients......Page 71 Piezoelectric anisotropy: Enhanced piezoelectric response along nonpolar directions in perovskite crystals......Page 76 Voltage tunable epitaxial PbxSr(1−x )TiO3 films on sapphire by MOCVD: Nanostructure and microwave properties......Page 88 Studies on the relaxor behavior of sol-gel derived Ba(ZrxTi1−x )O3 (0.30≤x≤0.70) thin films......Page 96 Magnetoelectric coupling, efficiency, and voltage gain effect in piezoelectric-piezomagnetic laminate composites......Page 106 Piezoresponse force microscopy and recent advances in nanoscale studies of ferroelectrics......Page 116 Dielectric response of polymer relaxors......Page 126 The relaxor enigma — charge disorder and random fields in ferroelectrics......Page 137 Properties of ferroelectric ultrathin films from first principles......Page 145 Fredholm integral equation of the Laser Intensity Modulation Method (LIMM): Solution with the polynomial regularization and L-curve methods......Page 154 Multilayer piezoelectric ceramic transformer with low temperature sintering......Page 161 A Monte Carlo simulation on domain pattern and ferroelectric behaviors of relaxor ferroelectrics......Page 166 Solid freeform fabrication of piezoelectric sensors and actuators......Page 179 Kinetics of ferroelectric domains: Application of general approach to LiNbO3 and LiTaO3......Page 201 Ferroelectric transducer arrays for transdermal insulin delivery......Page 213 Loss mechanisms and high power piezoelectrics......Page 219 Effect of electrical conductivity on poling and the dielectric, pyroelectric and piezoelectric properties of ferroelectric 0-3 composites......Page 231 Properties of triglycine sulfate/poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) 0-3 composites......Page 252 Near-field acoustic and piezoresponse microscopy of domain structures in ferroelectric material......Page 260 Normal ferroelectric to ferroelectric relaxor conversion in fluorinated polymers and the relaxor dynamics......Page 272 back-matter......Page 282 The?eld of ferroelectricity is a very active one. Many hundreds of papers in this?eld are published each year and a large number of local and international conferences are held. We felt that it wouldbeappropriate at this time to publish a set of papers in a single journal describing some of the most active areas in the?eld. The Journal of Materials Science agreed to publish a special issue on ferroelectricity. Accordingly, we sent requests for papers to a number of research groups around the world. It was diff?culttoselect a small number of groups from among the many excellent ones in the?eld and we apologize to those not included. We received 24 manuscripts from groups in North America, Asia and Europe, each one of which was reviewed by two referees. The papers include reviews and current research, both experimental and theoretical. It was especially satisfying that the authors included not only established researchers but also manyyounger people who are destined to continue in the?eld in the future. The special issue entitled “Frontiers of Ferroelectricity”appeared as Volume 41, Issue 1 of the Journal of Materials Science in January 2006. Because webelieved that many researchers and students would?nd great value in having the complete set of papers on their bookshelf, we suggested to the editors of Springer that Frontiers of Ferroelectricity shouldbe published in book form.

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.

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 materials scientists working with ferroelectric materials.