Ferroelectric Materials: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2024 | Viewed by 2300
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multiferroic materials; magnetoelectric coupling; dielectric, magnetic, and transport properties, piezoelectricity and polarization phenomena; preparative chemistry of solids
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: crystal structure; X-ray diffraction; magnetic materials and magnetism; material characterization; advanced materials; ceramics; materials; condensed matter physics; materials science; materials chemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ferroelectrics, a class of dielectric materials, have attracted interest from the scientific community for decades. The physicochemical parameters of ferroelectric materials are extremely sensitive to external electromagnetic fields, pressure, and temperature; thus, they are widely used in various electronic devices. Recent progress in elucidating the structure and properties of these compounds, whose chemical composition is similar to morphotropic-phase boundaries, has fostered further fundamental investigations into ferroelectrics.
This Special Issue of Applied Sciences aims to summarize recent advances in the “structure–properties” relationship of ferroelectrics with an emphasis on relevant phenomena observed at the local scale. Contributions may include, but are not limited to, the following topics: synthesis; processing; theoretical and experimental methods of studying the structure and functional properties of ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials; domain wall phenomena; evolution of crystal structure and physicochemical parameters under external stimuli, polarization switching; applications of electric materials; etc.
Dr. Dmitry Karpinsky
Dr. Vladimir Khomchanka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ferroelectrics
- electric materials
- piezoelectricity
- functional properties
- crystal structure
- phase transitions
