Advantages and challenges of relaxor-PbTiO3 ferroelectric crystals for electroacoustic transducers–A review

S Zhang, F Li, X Jiang, J Kim, J Luo, X Geng - Progress in materials science, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Relaxor-PbTiO 3 (PT) based ferroelectric crystals with the perovskite structure have
been investigated over the last few decades due to their ultrahigh piezoelectric coefficients …

Recent progress in relaxor ferroelectrics with perovskite structure

AA Bokov, ZG Ye - Journal of materials science, 2006 - Springer
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 …

Giant anharmonic phonon scattering in PbTe

O Delaire, J Ma, K Marty, AF May, MA McGuire… - Nature materials, 2011 - nature.com
Understanding the microscopic processes affecting the bulk thermal conductivity is crucial to
develop more efficient thermoelectric materials. PbTe is currently one of the leading …

Relaxing with relaxors: a review of relaxor ferroelectrics

RA Cowley, SN Gvasaliya, SG Lushnikov… - Advances in …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Relaxor ferroelectrics were discovered in the 1950s but many of their properties are not
understood. In this review, we shall concentrate on materials such as PMN …

Designing disorder into crystalline materials

A Simonov, AL Goodwin - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Crystals are a state of matter characterized by periodic order. Yet, crystalline materials can
harbour disorder in many guises, such as non-repeating variations in composition, atom …

Phase instability induced by polar nanoregions in a relaxor ferroelectric system

G Xu, J Wen, C Stock, PM Gehring - Nature materials, 2008 - nature.com
Relaxor ferroelectrics are a special class of material that exhibit an enormous
electromechanical response and are easily polarized with an external field. These …

Physiology of cerebral venous blood flow: from experimental data in animals to normal function in humans

B Schaller - Brain research reviews, 2004 - Elsevier
In contrast to the cerebroarterial system, the cerebrovenous system is not well examined and
only partly understood. The cerebrovenous system represents a complex three-dimensional …

Role of random electric fields in relaxors

D Phelan, C Stock… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
PbZr1–x Ti x O3 (PZT) and Pb (Mg1/3Nb2/3) 1–x Ti x O3 (PMN-x PT) are complex lead-
oxide perovskites that display exceptional piezoelectric properties for pseudorhombohedral …

Soft-mode spectroscopy of ferroelectrics and multiferroics: A review

S Kamba - APL Materials, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This article summarizes the results of the investigations of the dynamics of ferroelectric (FE)
phase transitions (PTs) obtained in Prague during the last 25 years. After a short …

Mixed phononic and non-phononic transport in hybrid lead halide perovskites: glass-crystal duality, dynamical disorder, and anharmonicity

T Zhu, E Ertekin - Energy & Environmental Science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In hybrid materials, a high-symmetry lattice is decorated by low-symmetry building blocks.
The result is an aperiodic solid that hosts many nearly-degenerate disordered …