Advances in Relaxor Ferroelectric Single Crystals, Ceramics and Their Applications
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 332
Special Issue Editors
Interests: piezoelectric actuators; ultrasonic motors; energy harvesting; piezoelectric ceramics and crystals
Interests: magnetoelectric materials and devices
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Relaxor ferroelectric crystals and ceramics attract a great deal of attention in high-performance materials and related devices applications. Massive piezoelectricity is realized by introducing local heterogeneity, engineered domain structure, nanopolar region, ceramic texture, and other methods. All these advances stimulate enhancement in various applications based on relaxor ferroelectric crystals and ceramics, including ultrasonic motors, piezoelectric actuators, energy harvesting, medical sensing, etc. In this Special Issue, the current state of this exciting research field will be presented, covering a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
- Novel relaxor ferroelectric materials: crystals, ceramics, thin films, and composites;
- Piezoelectric devices: actuators, sensors, transducers, energy harvesters, millirobots, ultrasonic motors, gyrators, transformers;
- Piezoelectric device modelling, design, fabrication, and application;
- New concepts and architectures for piezoelectric and magnetoelectric devices.
Prof. Dr. Xiangyu Gao
Prof. Dr. Zhaoqiang Chu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- relaxor ferroelectric single crystal
- relaxor ferroelectric ceramic
- piezoelectric and magnetoelectric composites
- piezoelectric actuator
- piezoelectric transducer
- energy harvesting
- ultrasonic motor
- piezoelectric sensor
- magnetoelectric sensor
- texture ceramic
- piezoelectric transformer
