Crystallographic texturing of polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics offers a means of
achieving significant enhancements in the piezoelectric response. Templated grain growth …

Relaxor-based single crystal piezoelectrics began to live up to their promise of providing
unprecedented increase of bandwidth, sensitivity and high energy density for advanced …

Ferroelectrics are essential components in a wide range of applications, including ultrasonic
transducers, sensors, and actuators. In the single crystal form, relaxor-PbTiO 3 (PT) …

Sinteringof Ceramics provides the only comprehensive treatment ofthe theories and
principles of sintering and their application to the production of advanced ceramics. It …

Materials scientists continue to develop stronger, more versatile ceramics for advanced
technological applications, such as electronic components, fuel cells, engines, sensors …

The piezoelectric and dielectric constants in different crystal orientations of the lead
zirconate titanate (PZT) have been phenomenologically calculated for the compositions near …

Recent advances both in experimental instrumentation and computing power have made it
possible to interrogate the distribution of internal interfaces in polycrystals and the three …

The Third Edition of Ceramic Materials for Electronics studies a wide range of ceramic
materials, including insulators, conductors, piezoelectrics, and ferroelectrics, through …

Solid‐state conversion of single crystals from polycrystalline materials has the advantages of
cost‐effectiveness, chemical homogeneity, and versatility over the conventional melt growth …

The piezoelectric properties of (1− x) Pb (Mg 1/3 Nb 2/3) O 3–x PbTiO 3 (x= 0.3–0.35),
ceramics with a high degree of< 001> fiber texture were investigated for possible actuator …