Perovskites: Structure, Properties & Uses (Chemical Engineering Methods & Technology Series)

Perovskite is a calcium titanium oxide mineral species composed of calcium titanate. This book discusses perovskite thin films, which are widely employed in today's advanced technology. The broad range of physical properties in such category of materials has offered various functionalities in devices ranging from dynamic random access memories and ferroelectric nonvolatile memories to piezoelectric and optical devices. The structural, magnetic and electron transport properties of ordered-disordered perskovite cobaltites is discussed as is perovskite-type oxides, ferroelectric PbTiO3 from a single-domain state to composite components, and others.