Reducing or even prohibiting the use of toxic lead in electronic devices has become one of
the most cutting-edge topics in various disciplines. The recently proposed phase boundary …

High-performance piezoceramics are some of the most important and widely used materials,
and as such research into this topic is at the forefront of high-technology advanced …

The year of 2021 is the 100th anniversary of the first publication of ferroelectric behaviour in
Rochelle salt, focussing on its piezoelectric properties. Over the past many decades, people …

A large body of work has been reported in the last 5 years on the development of lead‐free
piezoceramics in the quest to replace lead–zirconate–titanate (PZT) as the main material for …

Piezoelectric materials convert mechanical energy into electric energy, and vice versa. They
have been applied in many critical fields, such as motor vehicles, medical devices, the …

The potassium sodium niobate, K0. 5Na0. 5NbO3, solid solution (KNN) is considered as one
of the most promising, environment-friendly, lead-free candidates to replace highly efficient …

Fabrication of single crystals has long been limited to melt-and solution-growth techniques.
However, in recent years solid-state single crystal growth (SSCG) has appeared as a …

The global demand for Bi0. 5Na0. 5TiO3 (BNT) based perovskite materials with wide-
ranging applications in the sensors, detectors, capacitors, random access memories, and …

Texture engineering offers an approach for achieving enhanced properties in bulk ceramics
by introducing crystallographic anisotropy. Recent developments on texture engineering …

Piezoelectric single crystals based on the perovskite ferroelectric system (K, Na) NbO3 have
been widely investigated over the past 20 years due to large piezoelectric coefficients, high …