Local Structure and Phase Transitions of Ferroelectric Materials
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2020) | Viewed by 312
Special Issue Editors
Interests: X-ray crystallography
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The phase transition temperature of a ferroelectric substance is usually defined by the change in crystal structure. Since the interaction between dipoles is a long-range correlation, the polarization mechanism of ferroelectrics can be strictly determined by the average structure. However, useful ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties have been found for substances whose polarization mechanism is difficult to understand only by using the average structure as represented by relaxor ferroelectrics. For this group of materials that are only partially ordered, we must clarify not only the average structure but also the local structure. Given the increasing importance of local structural analysis of crystalline materials, various new tools have been used for this purpose.
We invite researchers to contribute to the Special Issue on “Local Structure and Phase Transitions of Ferroelectric Materials”, which intends to serve as a unique multidisciplinary forum covering the broad aspects of science, technology, and application of ferroelectric materials modulated by local structure. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Relaxor ferroelectrics and related materials
- Domain engineering and domain modulated phenomena
- Ferroelectric nanocrystals
- Observations inside ferroelectric domains
- Artificial nanostructures
- Observation methods for nanoscale structures
Dr. Yasuhiro Yoneda
Prof. Seiji Nakashima
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- relaxor
- ferroelectrics
- ferroelectric nanocrystals
- ferroelectric thin films
- ferroelectric composite
- domain observation
- local structure analysis
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