Advances in Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials appear in many of our everyday electronic devices, as well as finding many industrial and medical applications. Piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials have traditionally found numerous applications such as actuators, ultrasonic motors, transducers, sensors and capacitors. New applications such as ferroelectric random-access memory, neuromorphic computing, high-temperature capacitors, energy harvesting, energy storage materials, biomaterials and photocatalysts are constantly being developed, as well as new categories of materials such as high-entropy ferroelectric and anti-ferroelectric relaxor materials.

In this Special Issue, we welcome the latest research contributions on piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials, with suitable topics including novel compositions (e.g. high-entropy compositions, morphotropic phase boundaries, dopant addition), domain control (e.g. domain engineering, incipient ferroelectric materials, antiferroelectric materials, electrostrictive materials), microstructure control (e.g. single crystals, polycrystalline ceramics, nanoceramics, textured ceramics, thin/thick films), processing (e.g. sintering, multilayer processing, nanomaterials, 2D materials) and applications (e.g. catalysts, energy storage capacitors, computing, micro-/nano-positioning).

Prof. Dr. John G. Fisher
Guest Editor

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