Ferroelectric Devices

Kenji Uchino

(1999) 320 pages

This versatile reference/text provides a comprehensive introduction to fundamentals of ferroelectrics, including available materials, device designs, drive/control techniques, and essential applications examining high-permittivity dielectrics, piezoelectric devices, pyroelectric sensors, and electrooptic devices.

Focuses on highly adaptive polycrystalline ceramics and other materials used in thin/thick film devices. It features the author's exclusive device development method:

Containing over 800 references, drawings, and photographs, this text serves as an excellent reference for materials, electrical, electronics, optical, electromechanical, solid-state, and robotics engineers, and a superb text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

This book offers a detailed and well-organized outline for a full-semester course in ferroelctric materials engineering, as well as example problems and end-of-chapter problems making the book an ideal text for students or self-study guide for professionals.

PREFACE

LIST OF SYMBOLS

SUGGESTED TEA CHINGSCHEDULE

PREREQUISITE KNOWLEDGE

GENERAL VIEW OF FERROELECTRICS

Crystal Structure and Ferroelectricity; Origin of Spontaneous Polarization; Origin of Field Induced Strain; Electrooptic Effect; Example of Ferroelectrics; Applications of Ferroelectrics

MATHEMATICAL TREATMENT OF FERROELECTRICS

Tensor Representation of Physical Properties; Phenomenology of Ferroelectricity

MATERIAL AND DEVICE DESIGNING AND

FABRICATION PROCESSES

Material Designing; Fabrication Processes of Ceramics; Device Designing; Grain Size Effect on Ferroelectricity; Ferroelectric Domain Contributions

HIGH PERMITTIVITY DIELECTRICS

Ceramic Capacitors; Chip Capacitors; Hybrid Substrate; Relaxor Ferroelectrics

FERROELECTRIC MEMORY DEVICES

DRAM; Non-Volatile Ferroelectric Memory

PYROELECTRIC DEVICES

Pyroelectric Materials; Temperature/Infrared Light Sensors; Infrared Image Sensors

PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES

Piezoelectric Materials and Properties; Pressure Sensors/Accelerometers/Gyroscopes; Piezoelectric Vibrators/Ultrasonic Transducers; Surface Acoustic Wave Devices; Piezoelectric Transformers; Piezoelectric Actuators; Ultrasonic Motors

ELECTROOPTIC DEVICES

Electrooptic Effect - Review; Transparent Electrooptic Ceramics; Bulk Electrooptic Devices; Waveguide Modulators

PTC MATERIALS

Mechanism of PTC Phenomenon; PTC Thermistors; Grain Boundary Layer Capacitors

COMPOSITE MATERIALS

Connectivity; Composite Effects; PZT

Polymer Composites; PZT Composite Dampers

FUTURE OF FERROELECTRIC DEVICES

Market Share; Reliability Issues; Development of Bestseller Devices

INDEX

Ferroelectric Devices

Kenji Uchino

(1999) 320 pages

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