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Domain Engineered Relaxor Ferroelectric Single Crystals

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Single crystal relaxor ferroelectric materials exhibit extraordinary electromechanical properties. They are being applied in high performance sensors, actuators, and transducers. Field induced polarization switching and phase transitions of these crystals lead to complex nonlinear behavior. In recent years experimental investigations have been conducted to characterize the polarization switching and phase transition behavior as a function of crystallographic orientation, temperature, electric field, and stress. The results give insight into the mechanism underlying the observed large field hysteretic behavior. This review article describes the observed behavior and presents results of multiscale modeling that predicts the macroscopic behavior from the single domain single crystal behavior and evolution of crystal variants at the microscale.

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Liu, T., Lynch, C.S. Domain Engineered Relaxor Ferroelectric Single Crystals. Continuum Mech. Thermodyn. 18, 119–135 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00161-006-0017-6

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