Special Issue on Advances in Piezoelectrics: Fundamentals, Characterization, Materials and Applications, Guest Editor: Dragan Damjanovic
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Editorial
Dragan Damjanovic
3-10
Octahedral tilting, domain structure and piezoelectricity in perovskites and related ceramics
Ian M. Reaney
11-23
Defect structure of oxide ferroelectrics—valence state, site of incorporation, mechanisms of charge compensation and internal bias fields
Invited review for J. Electroceram.
Rüdiger-A. Eichel
25-47
Picturing the elephant: Giant piezoelectric activity and the monoclinic phases of relaxor-ferroelectric single crystals
Matthew Davis
49-67
Domain wall contributions to the properties of piezoelectric thin films
Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb, Ichiro Fujii, Eunki Hong, Susan Trolier-McKinstry and David V. Taylor, et al.
69-81
The use of diffraction in the characterization of piezoelectric materials
Jacob L. Jones
83-96
Nanoscale characterization of polycrystalline ferroelectric materials for piezoelectric applications
A. L. Kholkin, I. K. Bdikin, D. A. Kiselev, V. V. Shvartsman and S.-H. Kim
97-112
Thick-film piezoceramics and devices
R. N. Torah, S. P. Beeby, M. J. Tudor and N. M. White
113-126
Lead-free piezoelectric ceramics: Alternatives for PZT?
Thomas R. Shrout and Shujun J. Zhang
127-139
Fabrication, modelling and use of porous ceramics for ultrasonic transducer applications
F. Levassort, J. Holc, E. Ringgaard, T. Bove and M. Kosec, et al.
141-147
Piezoelectric materials for high frequency medical imaging applications: A review
K. K. Shung, J. M. Cannata and Q. F. Zhou
149-166
Recent advancements in magnetoelectric particulate and laminate composites
Shashank Priya, Rashed Islam, Shuxiang Dong and D. Viehland
167-184
Advances in energy harvesting using low profile piezoelectric transducers
Shashank Priya
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Erratum
Lead-free piezoelectric ceramics: Alternatives for PZT?
Thomas R. Shrout and Shujun Zhang