ABSTRACT
Dielectric and ferroelectric materials are an important class of insulating materials used in a wide variety of technological applications. Examples of their properties and relevant applications include the piezoelectric effect for transducer/actuator and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device applications, the electrooptical (e-o) effect for fiber-optic communication applications, high dielectric constants and remanent polarization for microelectronic memory device applications, electric-field tunability at microwave frequency for radar and microwave device applications, and the pyroelectric effect for infrared imaging.
