Aluminum nitride (AlN) has gained wide interest owing to its high values of elastic modulus,
band gap, dielectric strength, resistivity, thermal conductivity and acoustic velocities …

Piezoelectric materials are essential parts of the electronics and electrical equipment used
for consumer and industrial applications, such as ultrasonic piezoelectric transducers …

The correlation between structure and electrical properties of lead-free (1− x)(Bi 1/2 Na 1/2)
TiO 3–x BaTiO 3 (BNT-100 x BT) polycrystalline piezoceramics was investigated …

Piezoceramics have long faced the challenge of achieving both a high Curie temperature
(TC) and outstanding electrical properties due to thermal depolarization. To address this, we …

In recent years, the stability field of a monoclinic phase at the morphotropic phase boundary
in lead zirconate titanate, Pb [Zr 1− x Ti x] O 3, has been under discussion. In the present …

The importance of a high shear coefficient d 15 (or d 24⁠) to the piezoelectric properties of
domain-engineered and polycrystalline ferroelectrics is discussed. The extent of polarization …

The diffusionless pseudobinary phase diagram, monodomain properties, and free energy of
(1− x) Ba (Z r 0.2 T i 0.8) O 3-x (B a 0.7 C a 0.3) Ti O 3 are computed for comparison with …

Diffuse X-ray scattering is a rich source of local structural information over and above that
obtained by conventional crystal structure determination. The main aim of the book is to …

A thermodynamic analysis is presented for the diffusionless phase diagrams of ferroelectric
solid solutions that display a morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) separating adjacent …

The invention of flexible piezoelectric nanogenerators in today's nanotechnology era
attracted the attention of researchers on nano-energy harvesting systems. Since then …