Ferroic Materials for Smart Systems

Jiyan Dai, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. His research interests include nanomaterials fabrication and application with an emphasis on functional oxide thin films and devices. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal papers and five book chapters.

1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION: SMART MATERIALS, SENSORS and ACTUATORS
1.1 Smart System
1.2 Device Application of Ferroelectric Materials
1.3 Device Application of Ferromagnetic Materials
1.4 Ferroelastic Material and Device Application
1.5 Scope of This Book
2. INTRODUCTION to FERROELECTRICS
2.1 What is Ferroelectrics?
2.2 Origin of Ferroelectrics
2.3 Theory of Ferroelectric Phase Transition
2.4 Ferroelectric Domains and Domain Switching
2.5 Ferroelectric Materials
2.6 Ferroelectric Domain and Phase Field Calculation
3. DEVICE APPLICATIONS of FERROELECTRICS
3.1 Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
3.2 Ferroelectric Tunneling Non-Volatile Memory
3.3 Pyroelectric Effect and Infrared Sensor Application
3.4 Application in Microwave Device
3.5 Ferroelectric Photovoltaics
3.6 Electrocaloric Effect
4. FERROELECTRIC CHARACTERIZATIONS
4.1 P-E Loop Measurement
4.2 Temperature-Dependent Dielectric Permittivity Measurement
4.3 Piezoresponse Force Microscopy (PFM)
4.4 Structural Characterization
4.5 Domain Imaging and Polarization Mapping by Transmission Electron Microscopy
5. RECENT ADVANCES in FERROELECTRIC RESEARCH
5.1 Size Limit of Ferroelectricity
5.2 Ferroelectricity in Emerging 2D Materials
5.3 Ferroelectric Vortex
5.4 Molecular Ferroelectrics
5.5 Ferroelectricity in HfO2 and ZrO2 Fluorite-oxide Thin Films
5.6 Ferroic Properties in Hybrid Perovskites
6. PIEZOELECTRIC EFFECT - BASIC THEORY
6.1 Piezoelectric Constants Measurement
6.2 Equivalent Circuit
6.3 Characterization of Piezoelectric Resonator Based on a Resonance Technique
7. PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES
7.1 Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducers
7.2 Ultrasonic Motor
7.3 Surface Acoustics Wave Devices
7.4 Lead-free Piezoelectric Materials
8. FERROMAGNETICS - FROM MATERIAL to DEVICE
8.1 General Introduction to Ferromagnetics
8.2 Ferromagnetic Phase Transition- Landau Free-energy Theory
8.3 Domain and Domain Wall
8.4 Magnetoresistance Effect and Device
8.5 Magnetostrictive Effect and Device Applications
8.6 Characterizations of Ferromagnetism
8.7 Hall Effect
9. MULTIFERROICS: SINGLE PHASE and COMPOSITES
9.1 Introduction on Multiferroic
9.2 Magnetoelectric Effect
9.3 Why are There So Few Magnetic Ferroelectrics?
9.4 Single Phase Multiferroic Materials
9.5 ME Composite Materials
9.6 Modelling the Interfacial Coupling in Multilayered ME Thin Film
10. DEVICE APPLICATION of MULTIFERROICS
10.1 ME Composite Devices
10.2 Memory Devices Based on Multiferroic Thin Films
10.3 Memory Devices Based on Multiferroic Tunneling
11. FERROELASTICITY and SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY
11.1 Shape Memory Alloys
11.2 Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys
11.3 Device Application of MSA