Frontiers of Ferroelectricity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Self-assembled nanoscale ferroelectrics

   • Marin Alexe, Dietrich Hesse

   Pages 1-11

3. Factors influencing the piezoelectric behaviour of PZT and other “morphotropic phase boundary” ferroelectrics

   • Andrew J. Bell

   Pages 13-25

4. Polar nanoclusters in relaxors

   • R. Blinc, V. V. Laguta, B. Zalar, J. Banys

   Pages 27-30

5. Recent progress in relaxor ferroelectrics with perovskite structure

   • A. A. Bokov, Z. -G. Ye

   Pages 31-52

6. Flexoelectric effects: Charge separation in insulating solids subjected to elastic strain gradients

   • L. Eric Cross

   Pages 53-63

7. Piezoelectric anisotropy: Enhanced piezoelectric response along nonpolar directions in perovskite crystals

   • D. Damjanovic, M. Budimir, M. Davis, N. Setter

   Pages 65-76

8. Voltage tunable epitaxial Pb_xSr_(1−x)TiO₃ films on sapphire by MOCVD: Nanostructure and microwave properties

   • S. K. Dey, C. G. Wang, W. Cao, S. Bhaskar, J. Li, G. Subramanyam

   Pages 77-86

9. Studies on the relaxor behavior of sol-gel derived Ba(Zr_xTi_1−x )O₃ (0.30≤x≤0.70) thin films

   • A. Dixit, S. B. Majumder, R. S. Katiyar, A. S. Bhalla

   Pages 87-96

10. Magnetoelectric coupling, efficiency, and voltage gain effect in piezoelectric-piezomagnetic laminate composites

    • Shuxiang Dong, Jie-Fang Li, D. Viehland

    Pages 97-106

11. Piezoresponse force microscopy and recent advances in nanoscale studies of ferroelectrics

    • A. Gruverman, S. V. Kalinin

    Pages 107-116

12. Dielectric response of polymer relaxors

    • Bożena Hilczer, Hilary Smogór, Janina Goslar

    Pages 117-127

13. The relaxor enigma — charge disorder and random fields in ferroelectrics

    • Wolfgang Kleemann

    Pages 129-136

14. Properties of ferroelectric ultrathin films from first principles

    • Igor A. Kornev, Huaxiang Fu, Laurent Bellaiche

    Pages 137-145

15. Fredholm integral equation of the Laser Intensity Modulation Method (LIMM): Solution with the polynomial regularization and L-curve methods

    • Sidney B. Lang

    Pages 147-153

16. Multilayer piezoelectric ceramic transformer with low temperature sintering

    • Longtu Li, Ningxin Zhang, Chenyang Bai, Xiangcheng Chu, Zhilun Gui

    Pages 155-161

17. A Monte Carlo simulation on domain pattern and ferroelectric behaviors of relaxor ferroelectrics

    • J. -M. Liu, S. T. Lau, H. L. W. Chan, C. L. Choy

    Pages 163-175

18. Solid freeform fabrication of piezoelectric sensors and actuators

    • A. Safari, M. Allahverdi, E. K. Akdogan

    Pages 177-198

19. Kinetics of ferroelectric domains: Application of general approach to LiNbO3 and LiTaO3

    • Vladimir Ya. Shur

    Pages 199-210

20. Ferroelectric transducer arrays for transdermal insulin delivery

    • Benjamin Snyder, Seungjun Lee, Nadine Barrie Smith, Robert E. Newnham

    Pages 211-216

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.

• Sensor
• ceramics
• cluster
• crystal
• ferroelectric materials
• ferroelectricity
• laser
• materials science
• nanostructure
• simulation
• sintering
• sol-gel
• thin film

• Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

  Sidney B. Lang

• Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

  Helen L. W. Chan

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