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This versatile reference/text provides a comprehensive introduction to fundamentals of ferroelectrics, including available materials, device designs, drive/control techniques, and essential applications­examining 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:

• analyzes multilayer, bimorph/moonie, and flexible composites
• explains the uses of PTC (positive temperature coefficient of resistivity) effects
• covers electrostriction, anharmonicity, polarization reversal, paraelectricity, and other phenomena
• illuminates ferroelectric volatile and nonvolatile memory development
• showcases "sensing" and "activating" functions in pyroelectric and piezoelectric materials
• examines eigen lattice vibration modes in various materials
• describes shear stress and strain configurations
• surveys applications of ferroelectric ceramic multilayer structures in capacitors, actuators, and electrooptic components

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 problems­making the book an ideal text for students or self-study guide for professionals.