CONTENTS Preface, XI List of Contributors, XIII Part I. REPORTS. Materials Parameters Determining the Performance of 3-3 Piezocomposites C.R. Bowen, A. Perry, R. Stevens, and S. Mahon.............................................. 3 Dielectric Permittivity and Hysteresis of PZT Aerogels Stefan Geis, Jochen Fricke................................................................................ 23 Superfine Anomalies of the Cubic-Tetragonal Transition in the Perovskite-Type Ferroelectrics Detected by “mk-stabilized cell” Akira Kojima, Yukio Yoshimura, Hiroshi Iwasaki, and Ken-ichi Tozaki.......................................................................................... 33 NMR Study on m3h(seo4)2 (m: k, rb) Yasumitsu Matsuo, Keisuke Takahashi, and Seiichiro Ikehata............................. 51 Photovoltaic Effect in Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT)-Based Ceramics and Development for Photostrictor Application Kazuhiro Nonaka, Morito Akiyama, Chao-Nan Xu, Tsuyoshi Hagio, and Akira Takase.................................................................... 65 Novel Electronic Phase Transition in ii-vi Ferroelectric Semiconductor znO A. Onodera and H. Satoh................................................................................. 93 Brillouin Scattering Study of Structural Phase Transition in the kno3 Crystal Yasunari Takagi............................................................................................... 113 New Technologies for Future FeRAMs K. Uchiyama, M. Kazumura, Y. Shimada, T. Otsuki, N. Solayappan, V. Joshi, and C.A. Paz de Araujo............................................... 125 NANOCRYSTALLINE PEROVSKITE FILMS: FERROELECTRICS AND RELAXORS C. Ziebert, J.K. Krüger, H. Schmitt, A. Sternberg K.-H. Ehses, M. Marx................................................................................... 135 Part II. BRIEF REPORTS Studies of Ferroelectric Thin Film and Film-Based Device Processes via In Situ Analytic Techniques O. Auciello, S.K. Streiffer, G.B. Stephenson, J.A. Eastman, G. Bai, A.R. Krauss, J. Im, A.M. Dhote, C. Thompson, E.A. Irene, Y. Gao, A.H. Muller, M.J. Bedzyk, A. Kazimirov, D. Marasco, V.P. Dravid, A. Gruverman, S. Aggarwal, R. Ramesh, S.-H. Kim, A.I. Kingon, and C.B. Eom.................................................................................................. 155 The Spherical Random Bond – Random Field Model of Relaxor Ferroelectrics: Theory and Experiments R. Blinc, R. Pirc, B. Zalar, and A. Gregorovic.................................................... 159 Stabilization of Ferroelectricity in Quantum Paraelectrics by Isotopic Substitution A. Bussmann-Holder, H. Buttner, and A.R. Bishop............................................ 165 New Understanding of the Phases Transition Mechanism of Hydrogen-Bonded Ferroelectrics A. Bussmann-Holder, Naresh Dalal, Riqiang Fu, and Ricardo Migoni................... 167 Two Dimensional Ferroelectrics V.M. Fridkin, L.M. Blinov, S.P. Palto, S.G. Yudin, S. Ducharme, P.A. Dowben, and A.V. Bune.......................................................................... 169 Ferroelastic Twinning in Some Extremely Plastic Crystals Lyubov Kirpichnikova....................................................................................... 171 Investigation of the Anisotropy of srbi2ta2o9 and srbi2nb2o9 Through Epitaxial Growth J. Lettieri, M.A. Zurbuchen, Y. Jia, D.G. Schlom, S.K. Streiffer, and M.E. Hawley............................................................................................. 173 New Ideas in Relaxor Theory R.F. Mamin..................................................................................................... 179 Evaluation of Ferroelectric Domains in Lead Zirconate Titanate Ceramics by Poling Fields Toshio Ogawa.................................................................................................. 181 Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposited Ceramic Thin Films for Future Memory Applications M. Schumacher, J. Lindner, F. Schienle, D. Burgess, P. Strzyzewski, M. Dauelsberg, E. Merz, and H. Juergensen............................... 185 Dynamic and Static Aspects of the Antiferroelectric Phase Transition in rb3h1-xdx(so4)2 Crystals: An 87rb-nmr Study Andreas Titze and Roland Boehmer.................................................................. 187 Key Word Index………………………………………………………………………. 189 Contents of FERROELECTRICS.Vol.2. Frontier in Science and Technology Series. List of Titles. FSRC BOOKS of ABSTRACTS in Science and Technology Conference Series. List of Titles. F S R C. A Brief Info.

The past two decades have witnessed revolutionary breakthroughs in the understanding of ferroelectric materials, both from the perspective of theory and experiment. This book addresses the paradigmatic shifts in understanding brought about by these breakthroughs, including the consideration of novel fabrication methods and nanoscale applications of these materials, and new theoretical methods such as the effective Hamiltonian approach and density functional theory.

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This book presents the basic physical properties, structure, fabrication methods and applications of ferroelectric materials. These are widely used in various devices, such as piezoelectric/electrostrictive transducers and actuators, pyroelectric infrared detectors, optical integrated circuits, optical data storage, display devices, etc. The ferroelectric materials described in this book include a relatively complete list of practical and promising ferroelectric single crystals, bulk ceramics and thin films. Included are perovskite-type, lithium niobate, tungsten-bronze-type, water-soluable crystals and other inorganic materials, as well as organic ferroelectrics (polymers, liquid crystals, and composites). Basic concepts, principles and methods for the physical property characteristics of ferroelectric materials are introduced in the first two chapters for those readers new to the subject of ferroelectricity. Not only professional researchers and engineers but also students and other readers who have limited physical knowledge and an interest in ferroelectrics, will welcome this book.

Since Valasek's discovery of the ferroelectric properties of Rochelle salt nearly 60 years ago, ferroelectricity has been regarded as one of the tradi tional branches of dielectric physics. It has had important applications in lattice dynamics, quantum electronics, and nonlinear optics. The study of electron processes in ferroelectrics was begun with VUL's investigations of the ferroelectric properties of barium titanate [1.1]. In trinsic and extrinsic optical absorption, band structure, conductivity and photoconductivity, carrier mobility. and transport mechanisms were examined in this compound, and in other perovskite ferroelectric semiconductors. An important discovery was that of the highly photosensitive photoconducting ferroelectrics of type AVBVICVIII (e.g. SbSI) by MERZ et al. in 1962 [1.2,3]. A large number of ferroelectric semiconductors (some photosensitive, some not) are now known, including broad-band materials (e.g. lithium niobate, lithium tantalate, barium and strontium niobate, and type-A~B~I compounds), BI and narrow-band semiconductors (e.g. type_AIVB compounds). A series of improper ferroelectric semiconductors and photosensitive ferroelastics have been discovered, of which Sb 0 I is an example. s 7 Owing to the uncertainty of their band structure, the difficulty in deter mining the nature of the levels, the complexity of alloying, and their gen erally low mobility values, ferroelectrics are rarely of interest regarded as nonlinear semiconductors. The most fruitful approach has been the study of the influence of electrons (especially nonequilibrium electrons) and electron excitations on phase transitions and ferroelectric properties. A large group of phenomena have recently been discovered and investigated.