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This book presents selected topics on processing and properties of ferroelectric materials that are currently the focus of attention in scientific and technical research.
Ferro-piezoelectric ceramics are key materials in devices for many applications, such as automotive, healthcare and non-destructive testing. As they are polycrystalline, non-centrosymmetric materials, their piezoelectricity is induced by the so-called poling process. This is based on the principle of polarization reversal by the action of an electric field that characterizes the ferroelectric materials.
This book was born with the aim of increasing the awareness of the multifunctionality of ferroelectric materials among different communities, such as researchers, electronic engineers, end-users and manufacturers, working on and with ferro-piezoelectric ceramic materials and devices which are based on them.
The initiative to write this book comes from a well-establishedgroup of researchers at the Laboratories of Ferroelectric Materials, Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM-CSIC). This group has been working in different areas concerning thin films and bulk ceramic materials since the mid-1980s. It is a partner of the Network of Excellence on Multifunctional and Integrated Piezoelectric Devices (MIND) of the EC, in which the European Institute of Piezoelectric Materials and Devices has its origin.
List of contents
Introduction to multifunctional polycrystalline ferroelectric materials1 - Advances in processing of bulk ferroelectric materials2 - Processing of ferroelectric ceramic thick films3 - Tailored liquid alkoxides for the chemical solution processing of Pb-free ferroelectric thin 4 - Ferroelectrics onto substrates prepared by Chemical Solution Deposition: from the thin film to the self-assembled nanosized structures5 - Approaches towards the minimisation of toxicity in CSD processes of lead-based ferroelectric thin films6 - Synchrotron radiation diffraction and scattering in ferroelectrics7 - X-Ray absorption fine structure applied to ferrolectrics8 - Quantitative texture analysis of polycrystalline ferroelectrics9 - Nanoscale investigation of polycrystalline ferroelectric materials via piezoresponse force microscopy10 - Mechanical properties of Ferro-Piezoceramics11 - The elastic properties of ferroelectric thin films using nanoindentation12 - Pyroelectricityin polycrystalline ferroelectrics13 - Properties of ferro-piezoelectric ceramic materials in the linear range: determination from impedance measurements at resonance14 - Domain engineered ceramic resonators15 - Non-linear behaviour of piezoelectric ceramics16 - Piezoelectric transducers for structural health monitoring: modelling and imaging
Summary
This book presents selected topics on processing and properties of ferroelectric materials that are currently the focus of attention in scientific and technical research.
Ferro-piezoelectric ceramics are key materials in devices for many applications, such as automotive, healthcare and non-destructive testing. As they are polycrystalline, non-centrosymmetric materials, their piezoelectricity is induced by the so-called poling process. This is based on the principle of polarization reversal by the action of an electric field that characterizes the ferroelectric materials.
This book was born with the aim of increasing the awareness of the multifunctionality of ferroelectric materials among different communities, such as researchers, electronic engineers, end-users and manufacturers, working on and with ferro-piezoelectric ceramic materials and devices which are based on them.
The initiative to write this book comes from a well-establishedgroup of researchers at the Laboratories of Ferroelectric Materials, Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM-CSIC). This group has been working in different areas concerning thin films and bulk ceramic materials since the mid-1980s. It is a partner of the Network of Excellence on Multifunctional and Integrated Piezoelectric Devices (MIND) of the EC, in which the European Institute of Piezoelectric Materials and Devices has its origin.
