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Preface
has been employed to calculate the dielectric functions of high-quality LNO and LSCO
conductive oxide fi lms.
Chapter 5 reports on SrRuO
3
bo om electrodes grown with an epitaxial relationship
with SrO buff ered-Si(001) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. The structural and
electrical properties of the SrRuO
3
fi lms have been studied with deposition param-
eters of SrRuO
3
on the optimized SrO buff er layered Si (001) substrates. 100nm thick-
Pb(Zr
0.2
Ti
0.8
)O
3
thin fi lms deposited at 575
o
C on SrRuO
3
/SrO/Si substrates showed a (00l)
preferred orientation and exhibited a 2P
r
of 40 μC/cm
2
and a E
c
of 100 kV/cm.
In Chapter 6 the experimental results on Electro Caloric Eff ect (ECE) in ferroelectric
polymer fi lms. The relaxor ferroelectric P(VDF-TrFE-CFE) terpolymer has been stud-
ied which reveal a very large ECE at ambient condition in the relaxor terpolymers.
Chapter 7 studies the subtitutional eff ect in Bi
4
Ti
3
O
12
ferroelectric thin fi lms. BIT, BLT,
BTV and BLTV thin fi lms were fabricated on the Pt/TiO
2
/SiO
2
/p-Si(100) substrates by
sol-gel processes. The BLTV thin fi lm shows the largest 2P
r
of 50.8 μC/cm
2
with small
2E
c
of 194 kV/cm among these fi lms. For the BLTV thin fi lm, the fatigue test showed the
strongest fatigue endurance up to 10
10
cycles with leakage current density in the order
of 10
-9
-10
-8
A/cm
2
.
Chapter 8 reports the successful fabrication of uniaxially aligned semiconducting,
conducting, and carbon nanofi ber yarns by electrospinning and subsequent thermal
conversion or carbonization of PXTC, which would open up a new fi eld of applications
in organic nanoelectronics.
Chapter 9 reports on the introduction of carbon materials where in the excellent elec-
trical properties of carbon materials enable them to assist the applications of ferroelec-
tric and related materials.
In Chapter 10, the dielectric relaxation phenomenon is discussed in ferroelectric per-
ovskite-related structures considering the relaxation mechanisms and the infl uence of
the vacancies on them.
Chapter 11 reports on the ferroelectric-ferromagnetic composite ceramics with high
permi ivity and high permeability in hyper-frequency. The co-fi red composite ceram-
ics of 0.8Pb(Ni
1/3
Nb
2/3
)O
3
-0.2PbTiO
3
/Ba
2
Zn
1.2
Cu
0.8
Fe
12
O
22
are discussed in this chapter,
which has excellent co-fi ring behavior, dense microstructure and good electromag-
netic properties.
Chapter 12 investigates the aging-induced double ferroelectric hysteresis (P–E) loops
and recoverable electrostrain (S–E) curves in an Mn-doped orthorhombic KNbO
3
-
based [K(Nb
0.90
Ta
0.10
)O
3
] lead-free ceramic: K[(Nb
0.90
Ta
0.10
)
0.99
Mn
0.01
]O
3
. Double P–E loops
and large recoverable S–E curves with amplitudes in excess of 0.13% at 5 kV/mm have
been observed in the aged samples over a wide temperature range of 25–140
o
C.