Dielectric capacitors with the prominent features of ultrafast charging–discharging rates and
ultrahigh power densities are ubiquitous components in modern electronics. To meet the …

Ferroelectric materials have remained one of the major focal points of condensed matter
physics and materials science for over 50 years. In the last 20 years, the development of …

Transparent piezoelectrics are highly desirable for numerous hybrid ultrasound–optical
devices ranging from photoacoustic imaging transducers to transparent actuators for haptic …

Feature size is a natural determinant of material properties. Its design offers the
technological perspectives for material improvement. Grain size, crystallite size, domain …

Relaxor ferroelectrics were discovered almost 50 years ago among the complex oxides with
perovskite structure. In recent years this field of research has experienced a revival of …

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) has emerged as a powerful and versatile tool for
probing nanoscale phenomena in ferroelectric materials on the nanometer and micrometer …

The properties of ferroelectric-ferroelastic twin boundaries in tetragonal Ba Ti O 3-like
crystals are analyzed in the framework of the phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau …

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is used to afford insight into the nanoscale
electromechanical behavior of lead‐free piezoceramics. Materials based on Bi1/2Na1/2TiO3 …

Lead-free relaxor ferroelectric (RFE) ceramics find application in a broad range of
technological devices due to their large electrostrain. But few lead-free ceramics show …

Relaxor ferroelectrics, with their strong dependence of polarization on the applied electric
field, are of considerable technological importance. On a microscopic scale, however, there …