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ProfessorRogerWhatmore

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Materials

Visiting Professor
 
 
 
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r.whatmore

 
 
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Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inbook{Whatmore:2017:10.1007/978-3-319-48933-9_26,
author = {Whatmore, R},
booktitle = {Springer Handbooks},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-48933-9_26},
title = {Ferroelectric materials},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48933-9_26},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - CHAP
AB  - Ferroelectric materials offer a wide range of useful properties. These include ferroelectric hysteresis (used in nonvolatile memories), high permittivities (used in capacitors), high piezoelectric effects (used in sensors, actuators and resonant wave devices such as radio-frequency filters), high pyroelectric coefficients (used in infra-red detectors), strong electro-optic effects (used in optical switches) and anomalous temperature coefficients of resistivity (used in electric-motor overload-protection circuits). In addition, ferroelectrics can be made in a wide variety of forms, including ceramics, single crystals, polymers and thin films – increasing their exploitability. This chapter gives an account of the basic theories behind the ferroelectric effect and the main ferroelectric material classes, discussing how their properties are related to their composition and the different ways they are made. Finally, it reviews the major applications for this class of materials, relating the ways in which their key functional properties affect those of the devices in which they are exploited.
AU  - Whatmore,R
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-319-48933-9_26
PY  - 2017///
TI  - Ferroelectric materials
T1  - Springer Handbooks
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48933-9_26
ER  -
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