Handbook of Advanced Dielectric, Piezoelectric and Ferroelectric Materials
Synthesis, Properties and Applications

Z-G Ye (Edited by)

9781845691868, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 20 March 2008

1096 pages
23.3 x 15.6 x 5.1 cm, 1.76 kg

This comprehensive book covers recent developments in advanced dielectric, piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials. Dielectric materials such as ceramics are used to manufacture microelectronic devices. Piezoelectric components have been used for many years in radioelectrics, time-keeping and, more recently, in microprocessor-based devices. Ferroelectric materials are widely used in various devices such as piezoelectric/electrostrictive transducers and actuators, pyroelectric infrared detectors, optical integrated circuits, optical data storage and display devices.The book is divided into eight parts under the general headings: High strain high performance piezo- and ferroelectric single crystals; Electric field-induced effects and domain engineering; Morphotropic phase boundary related phenomena; High power piezoelectric and microwave dielectric materials; Nanoscale piezo- and ferroelectrics; Piezo- and ferroelectric films; Novel processing and new materials; Novel properties of ferroelectrics and related materials. Each chapter looks at key recent research on these materials, their properties and potential applications.Advanced dielectric, piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials is an important reference tool for all those working in the area of electrical and electronic materials in general and dielectrics, piezoelectrics and ferroelectrics in particular.

Part 1 High strain high performance piezo- and ferroelectric single crystals: Bridgman growth and properties of PMN-PT single crystals
Flux growth and characterization of PZN-PT and PMN-PT single crystals
Recent developments and applications of Piezo crystals
Piezoelectric single crystals for medical ultrasonic transducers
High performance, high-TC piezoelectric crystals
Development of high performance piezoelectric single crystals by using solid-state single crystal growth (SSCG) method
Piezo- and ferroelectric (1-x)Pb(Sc1/2Nb1/2)O3?xPbTiO3 solid solution system
High-curie temperatures piezoelectric single crystal of the Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)O3-Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 ternary materials system. Part 2 Field-induced effects and domain engineering: Full set material properties and domain engineering principles of ferroelectric single crystals
Domain wall engineering in piezoelectric crystals with engineered domain configuration
Enhancement of piezoelectric properties in perovskite crystals by thermally, compositionally, electric field and stress induced instabilities
Electric-field-induced domain structures and phase transitions in PMN-PT single crystals
Energy analysis of field induced phase transitions in relaxor-based piezo- and ferroelectric crystals. Part 3 Morphotropic phase boundary and related phenomena: From the structure of relaxor to the structure of MPB systems
Size effects on the macroscopic properties of the relaxor-ferroelectric Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 solid solution. Part 4 High power piezoelectric and microwave dielectric materials: Loss mechanisms and high power piezoelectric components
Bismuth-based pyrochlore dielectric ceramics for microwave applications. Part 5 Nanoscale piezo- and ferroelectrics: Ferroelectric nanostructures for device applications
Domains in ferroelectric nanostructures from first principles
Nanosized ferroelectric crystals
Nano- and micro-domain engineering in normal and relaxor ferroelectrics
Interface control in 3D ferroelectric nano-composites. Part 6 Piezo- and ferroelectric films: Single crystalline PZT Films and the impact of extended structural defects on the ferroelectric properties
Piezoelectric thick films for MEMS application
Symmetry engineering in ferroelectric thin films. Part 7 Novel processing and new materials: Processing of textured piezoelectric and dielectric perovskite-structured ceramics by reactive-templated grain growth method
Grain orientation and electrical properties of bismuth layer-structured ferroelectrics
Novel solution routes to ferroelectrics and relaxors
Room temperature preparation of KNbO3 nanoparticles and thin film from a perovskite nanosheet
Lead-free relaxors. Part 8 Novel properties of ferroelectrics and related materials: Novel physical effects in dielectric superlattices and their applications
Dielectric and optical properties of perovskite artificial superlattices
Crystal structure and defect control in Bi4Ti3O12-based layered ferroelectric single crystals.

Subject Areas: Electronic devices & materials [TJFD]