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Principles and applications of ferroelectrics and related materials /

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This text develops the modern theory of ferroelectricity in terms of soft modes and lattice dynamics, and also describes modern techniques of measurement, including x-ray, optic and neutron scattering, and magnetic resonance.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lines, Malcolm E., Glass, A. M. (Alastair M.) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2001.
Series:Oxford classic texts in the physical sciences.
Subjects:
Ferroelectricity.
Ferroelectric crystals.
Ferroélectricité.
Cristaux ferroélectriques.
Ferroelectric crystals
Ferroelectricity
Vaste stoffen.
Ferro-elektriciteit.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Basic Concepts
  • 2. Statistical Theory, Soft Modes, and Phase Transitions
  • 3. Macroscopics and Phenomenology
  • 4. Domains, Imperfections, and Polarization Reversal
  • 5. Experimental Study of Thermodynamic Properties
  • 6. Structural Crystallography and Phase Transitions
  • 7. Study of Soft Modes Using Infrared and Optic Techniques
  • 8. Oxygen Octahedra
  • 9. Order-Disorder Ferroelectrics
  • 10. Coupling to the Soft Mode
  • 11. Critical Phenomena
  • 12. Magnetic and Optic Studies of Local Environment
  • 13. Non-Linear Optics
  • 14. Semiconductor Ferroelectrics
  • 15. Films, Ceramics, and Metastable Polarization
  • 16. Applications of Ferroelectrics.