Frontiers of Ferroelectricity

Self-assembled nanoscale ferroelectrics.- Factors influencing the piezoelectric behaviour of PZT and other "morphotropic phase boundary" ferroelectrics.- Polar nanoclusters in relaxors.- Recent progress in relaxor ferroelectrics with perovskite structure.- Flexoelectric effects: Charge separation in insulating solids subjected to elastic strain gradients.- Piezoelectric anisotropy: Enhanced piezoelectric response along nonpolar directions in perovskite crystals.- Voltage tunable epitaxial PbxSr(1?x)TiO3 films on sapphire by MOCVD: Nanostructure and microwave properties.- Studies on the relaxor behavior of sol-gel derived Ba(ZrxTi1?x )O3 (0.30?x?0.70) thin films.- Magnetoelectric coupling, efficiency, and voltage gain effect in piezoelectric-piezomagnetic laminate composites.- Piezoresponse force microscopy and recent advances in nanoscale studies of ferroelectrics.- Dielectric response of polymer relaxors.- The relaxor enigma - charge disorder and random fields in ferroelectrics.- Properties of ferroelectric ultrathin films from first principles.- Fredholm integral equation of the Laser Intensity Modulation Method (LIMM): Solution with the polynomial regularization and L-curve methods.- Multilayer piezoelectric ceramic transformer with low temperature sintering.- A Monte Carlo simulation on domain pattern and ferroelectric behaviors of relaxor ferroelectrics.- Solid freeform fabrication of piezoelectric sensors and actuators.- Kinetics of ferroelectric domains: Application of general approach to LiNbO3 and LiTaO3.- Ferroelectric transducer arrays for transdermal insulin delivery.- Loss mechanisms and high power piezoelectrics.- Effect of electrical conductivity on poling and the dielectric, pyroelectric and piezoelectric properties of ferroelectric 0-3 composites.- Properties of triglycine sulfate/poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) 0-3 composites.- Near-field acoustic and piezoresponse microscopy of domain structures in ferroelectric material.- Normal