Lead zirconate (PbZrO 3 or PZ)-based antiferroelectric (AFE) materials, as a group of
important electronic materials, have attracted increasing attention for their potential …

This paper provides a review of a systematic micro‐Raman scattering study on various lead‐
and barium‐based ABO3 perovskites (A= Pb, La, Ba, Sr, Ce, Gd, Nd and B= Ti, Zr) …

Antiferroelectric (AFE) materials are of great interest owing to their scientific richness and
their utility in high‐energy density capacitors. Here, the history of AFEs is reviewed, and the …

Antiferroelectrics are essential ingredients for the widely applied piezoelectric and
ferroelectric materials: the most common ferroelectric, lead zirconate titanate is an alloy of …

Compositions within the lead zirconate-titanate (PZT) solid solution system have been
extensively used in polycrystalline ceramic form in a wide range of piezoelectric transducer …

Antiferroelectric‐based dielectric capacitors are receiving tremendous attention for their
outstanding energy‐storage performance and extraordinary flexibility in collecting pulsed …

The physics of pyroelectric infra red detectors as it applies to the selection of detector
materials is briefly reviewed and the properties of a number of the more commonly used …

Structural instabilities and electronic properties of PrZrO 3 are investigated using local-
density calculations. Substantial hybridization is found in the electronic band structure, both …

The fundamental physics of antiferroelectric oxides and their properties are reviewed. First,
the difficulties in formulating a precise definition of antiferroelectricity are discussed, drawing …

Transmission electron microscopy studies have been performed on a series of Pb (Zr 1− x Ti
x) O 3 compositions for 0≤ x≤ 0.2. These studies revealed several important features of the …