Advanced Ferroelectric Materials and Films: From Materials to Applications
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Thin Films".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 3803
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ferroelectric, dielectric, and superconducting film growth and characterization; ferroelectric films for microwave applications; ferroelectric tunable and storage devices
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Dear Colleagues,
Ferroelectricity has been one of the most used and studied phenomena in both scientific and industrial communities. Ferroelectrics have been studied for many years and have been found to be particularly important materials for application in piezoelectric, pyroelectric, electrostrictive, and linear and nonlinear high frequency and optical devices. In the past two decades, intensive development efforts are being made in this direction. A wide range of materials has been produced, and some excellent-quality thin-film, polycrystalline, and single-crystal ferroelectrics have been obtained. Based on ferroelectric materials, such devices as high-energy-density capacitors, high-power transmitting antennas, devices for matching energy transmission lines, controlled dielectric lenses, and electrically tunable capacitive elements have been elaborated. Promising breakthrough applications of ferroelectric materials are still under development (non‐volatile memory, microwave, optical devices, etc.), making ferroelectrics one of tomorrow’s most important materials. The main driving force for this resurgent interest is the potential for substantial miniaturization of components and systems (also accompanied by a large cost reduction) and the potential for integration with microelectronic circuits due to the development of thin-film ferroelectric technology.
The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight the most recent advancements in the science and technology of ferroelectric materials, covering a broad range of fields from theory and modeling, via processing and characterization thereof, to the development of new applications and devices, through a combination of original research papers and review articles from leading groups around the world.
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Ferroelectric film growth and characterization;
- Novel ferroelectric/piezoelectric/multiferroic thin films, composites, and bulk materials;
- Novel materials for ferroelectric memories and capacitors;
- Tunable ferroelectric devices for high-frequency applications;
- Energy harvesting, piezoelectric, IR, and terahertz sensors;
- Bulk acoustic devices (BAW and FBAR).
Prof. Dr. Andrey Tumarkin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ferroelectric materials and applications
- piezoelectrics
- multiferroics
- ferroelectric memories
- tunable devices
- storage devices
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