Ferroelectric Phenomena in Crystals: Physical Foundations

✍ Scribed by Professor Boris A. Strukov, Professor Arkadi P. Levanyuk (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a response to an evident demand for a university textbook on ferroelectricity. The authors discuss the current understanding of the physical nature of ferroelectric phenomena in a consistent and logical form using both phenomenological and microscopic approaches. They present not a descriptive but a conceptual view on the phenomenon and its position in the framework of the more general problem of structural phase transitions. Moreover, the book provides a basis for better understanding of the structural phase transitions themselves. It should be emphasized that the book is self-sufficient in the sense that there are no words like "it can be shown" or "it is easy to see" in it. The level of the book is appropriate for students who seek a deeper understanding of ferroelectric phenomena in dielectrics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
General Characteristics of Structural Phase Transitions in Crystals....Pages 1-29
Phenomenological Theory of Second-Order Structural Transitions in Crystal....Pages 31-47
Proper Ferroelectrics: Anomalies of Physical Properties in Phase Transitions....Pages 49-71
Dielectric Anomalies in Structural Nonferroelectric and Improper Ferroelectric Phase Transitions....Pages 73-88
Anomalies of Elastic and Electromechanical Characteristics of Crystals in Second-Order Phase Transitions....Pages 89-118
Fluctuations of the Order Parameter in Phenomenological Theory....Pages 119-134
Structural Phase Transitions in the Single-Ion Model....Pages 135-149
Statistical Theory of Ferroelectric Phase Transitions of the Order-Disorder Type....Pages 151-173
Dynamics of Displacive and Order-Disorder Phase Transitions....Pages 175-191
Domain Structure and Defects....Pages 193-226
Ferroelectrics with an Incommensurate Phase....Pages 227-265
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals....Pages 267-288
Crystallochemical Aspects of the Theory of Ferroelectric Phenomena....Pages 289-298
Recommended Literature....Pages 299-299
Back Matter....Pages 301-308

✦ Subjects

Metallic Materials;Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity;Condensed Matter Physics;Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems