Advanced Ferroelectricity

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-957094-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 151, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 196 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 734 g

Reihe: International Series of Monographs on Physics

The field of ferroelectricity has greatly expanded and changed in recent times. In addition to classical organic and inorganic ferroelectrics, new fields and materials, unknown or inactive 20 to 40 years ago, have appeared. They are important for both basic science and applications, and show technological promise for novel multifunctional devices. New fields include multiferroic magnetoelectric systems, where spontaneous polarization and spontaneous magnetization are
allowed to coexist; incommensurate ferroelectrics, where the periodicity of the order parameter is incommensurate to the periodicity of the underlying basic crystal lattice; ferroelectric liquid crystals; dipolar glasses; relaxor ferroelectrics; ferroelectric thin films; nanoferroelectrics. These
new fields are not only of basic physical interest, but also of great technological importance, allowing the design of new memory devices, spintronic applications, and the design of electro-optic devices. They are also important for applications in acoustics, robotics, telecommunications and medicine. The book is primarily intended for material scientists working in research or industry. It is also intended for graduate and doctoral students and can be used as a textbook in graduate courses.
Finally, it should be useful for anybody interested in following the developments in modern solid state physics.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate material scientists, solid state physicists, solid state chemists, lecturers in physics, chemistry, and materials science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blinc, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Magnetismus
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Optik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Elektrizität, Elektrodynamik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Halbleiter- und Supraleiterphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: 1. Organic, inorganic and composite ferroelectrics
2: 1. Incommensurate systems
3: 1. Ferroelectric liquid systems
4: 1. Dipolar glasses
5: 1. Magnetoelectric ferroelectrics
6: 1. Relaxor ferroelectrics
7: 1. Ferroelectric polymers
8: 1. Electrocaloric effectin ferroelectrics and ferroelectric thin films
9: 1. Thin films
10: 1. Nanoferroelectrics

Über Autor(innen)

Blinc, Robert
Robert Blinc, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Robert Blinc is dean of the Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School in Ljubljana, and Professor of Physics at the University of Ljubljana. He has held visiting professorships in the USA, Brazil, Switzerland, and Austria, and won a number of prizes for his work on ferroelectrics and the application of magnetic resonance to the study of the local structure of matter.

Robert Blinc is dean of the Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School in Ljubljana, and Professor of Physics at the University of Ljubljana. He has held visiting professorships in the USA, Brazil, Switzerland, and Austria, and won a number of prizes for his work on ferroelectrics and the application of magnetic resonance to the study of the local structure of matter.