Piezoelectric/Ferroelectric Ceramic Materials and Devices
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced and Functional Ceramics and Glasses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 4014
Special Issue Editor
Interests: perovskite structure; high-curie temperature; high- electromechanical performance; morphotropic phase boundary effects; ferroelectric phase transition; domain configuration; energy storage density; multifunctional application; ferroelectric photocatalysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As important functional materials, piezoelectric/ferroelectric materials have obtained widespread applications in transducers, sensors, actuators etc. With the rapid development of science and technology, extensive applications appear, such as high-Curie temperature (TC) piezoelectric materials in harsh operation conditions, high-electromechanical piezoelectrics/ferroelectrics in high-power applications such as sonar systems, relaxor-like ferroelectric/dielectric capacitors as energy-storage capacitors in pulse power equipment, rare-earth-doped piezoelectrics/ferroelectrics in multifunctional applications such as optoelectronic field, nanostructured ferroelectrics as ferroelectric photocatalysts, and so on.
Through the proper selection of materials, versatile piezoelectric/ferroelectric-based devices have been designed, such as bulk ceramic sensors, composite sensor configurations, and future developments are expected and will have great value. Furthermore, significant progress has been made in materials preparation and development, including nano-sized precursor powders prepared by liquid-phase techniques, novel forming techniques such as powder injection molding, novel sintering techniques such reaction sintering and cold sintering processes, and so on. This extensive progress has promoted the development of piezoelectric/ferroelectric materials and devices.
The forthcoming Special Issue will focus on recent advancements in the field of Piezoelectric/Ferroelectric Ceramic Materials and Devices. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Lead-based piezoelectric/ferroelectric materials and devices;
- Lead-free piezoelectric/ferroelectric materials and devices;
- Novel processing of piezoelectric/ferroelectric materials;
- Morphotropic phase boundary effects;
- Ferroelectric phase transition;
- Piezoelectric/ferroelectric nanostructures;
- Piezoelectric/ferroelectric size effects;
- Domain configuration of piezoelectric/ferroelectric materials;
- Applications of piezoelectric/ferroelectric materials—piezoelectric devices, pyroelectric devices, medical ultrasonic transducers, ferroelectric memory technology;
- Novel applications of piezoelectric/ferroelectric materials.
Prof. Dr. Bijun Fang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- perovskite structure
- high Curie temperature
- high electromechanical performance
- morphotropic phase boundary effects
- ferroelectric phase transition
- domain configuration
- energy storage density
- multifunctional application
- ferroelectric photocatalysis
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