Ferroelectricity

Julio A. Gonzalo, Professor of Physics, Departamento de Fisica de Materiales: Professor Gonzalo has lectured at several prestigious academic and research institutes around the world, and was organizer and chairman of several international conferences on ferroelectricity. His research interests include ferroelectricity, phase transitions as well as materials physics in general. Basilio Jimenez, Research Director ICMM, Madrid: Professor Jimenez is a member of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics and Spanish Materials Society. He has directed many Spanish and European Research Projects. His research interests include, among other things, ferro-piezoelectric materials.

1 Foreword (B. Jimenez, J. A. Gonzalo).2 Selected Early Work 1921-1961.2.1 Piezo-electric Activity of Rochelle Salt Under Various Conditions (J. Valasek).2.2 Rochelle Salt as a Dielectric (C. B. Sawyer, C. H. Tower).2.3 A New Seignette-electric Substance (G. Busch, P. Scherrer).2.4 Theoretical Model for Explaining the Ferroelectric Effect in Barium Titanate (W. P. Mason, B. T. Matthias).2.5 Theory of Barium Titanate (A. F. Devonshire).2.6 The Lorentz Correction in Barium Titanate (J. C. Slater).2.7 Phase Transitions in Solid Solutions of PbZrO3 and PbTiO3 (G. Shirane, A. Takeda).2.8 Dielectric Constant in Perovskite Type Crystals (J. H. Barrett).2.9 Ferroelectricity of Glycine Sulfate (B. T. Matthias, C. E. Miller, J. P. Remeika).2.10 Switching Mechanism in Triglycine Sulfate and Other Ferroelectrics (E. Fatuzzo, W. J. Merz).2.11 Crystal Stability and the Theory of Ferroelectricity (W. Cochran).3 Ferroelectrics 1966-2001: An Overview (R. Blinc).3.1 Introduction.3.2 Statistical Indicators.3.3 Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena.3.4 Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals.3.5 Ferroelectric Thin Films.3.5.1 Crystalline Films.3.5.2 Ferroelectric Memories and Integrated Ferroelectrics.3.5.3 Two-dimensional Ferroelectricity in Crystalline Films.3.5.4 Freely Suspended Ferroelectric Smectic Thin Films.3.6 Dipolar Glasses and Relaxors.3.7 Incommensurate (IC) Systems.4 Phase Transitions in Ferroelectrics: Some Historical and Other Remarks (V. L. Ginzburg).5 Theory of Ferroelectrics (R. E. Cohen).6 Ferroelectric Ceramics: History and Technology (G. H. Haertling),7 Tenth International Meeting on Ferroelectricity: IMF-10, a Jubilee Meeting (W. Kleeman).7.1 A Touch of History.7.2 A Wealth of Science.7.3 A Glimpse at Spain, at Madrid and at Spanish Life and Culture.7.4 Summary.