Microstructure, Property and Processing of Functional Ceramics describes the preparation, property and local structure microscopy of functional ceramics.
It covers functional ceramic fabrication processing, grain boundary phenomena and micro-, nanoscale structures characterizations including scanning electron acoustic microscopy, scanning probe acoustic microscopy and piezoresponse force microscopy.
This book is intended for advanced undergraduates, graduates and researchers in the field of ma

1 Microstructure and Properties of Functional Ceramics
1.1 General Description
1.2 Grain
1.2.1 Grain category
1.2.2 Grain properties
1.3 Grain Boundary Structures
1.3.1 Concepts of grain boundary structures
1.3.2 Properties of grain boundary structures
1.3.3 Nano grain boundary structures
1.4 Pore Phases
1.5 Domain Structure
1.6 Mechanical Properties of Ferroelectric Ceramics
1.6. 1 General
1.6.2 Electric domain and internal stress
1.6.3 PLZT ceramics and internal stress
1.6.4 PTC ceramics and internal stress
1.6.5 Aging
1.7 Capacitor Ceramics
1.7.1 Ordinary dielectric materials for capacitor
1.7.2 Relaxor ferroelectric materials
1.7.3 Microwave dielectric materials
1.8 Piezoelectric Ceramics
1.8.1 Microstructures of piezoelectric ceramics
1.8.2 Properties of piezoelectric ceramics
1.9 Transparent Ferroelectric Ceramics
1.9. 1 Microstructures of transparent ferroelectric ceramics
1.9.2 Experimental method and two phases of PLZT ceramics
1.9.3 Domain switching properties of PLZT ceramics
1.9.4 Grain boundaries in PLZT ceramics
1.9.5 Summary
1.10 Thermistor Materials
1.10.1 Microstructures and properties of PTC materials
1.10.2 NTC materials and segregation at grain boundaries
1.11 Varistor Materials
1.12 Ceramics for Humidity Sensitive Resistor
1.13 Magnetic Ceramics
1.14 Biologically Functional Ceramics
1.15 Functional Ceramic Films
1.16 Alumina Ceramics
1.17 Summary
References
2 Grain Boundary Phenomenaof Functional Ceramics
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Generalization of Grain Boundary
2.2.1 Grain boundary structure
2.2.2 Grain boundary properties
2.3 Grain Boundary Segregation
2.3.1 Generalization
2.3.2 Boundary layer capacitors
2.3.3 PTC materials
2.3.4 Magnetic ceramics
2.3.5 ZnO varistor materials
2.3.6 Other examples of segregation
2.4 Grain Boundary Region
2.4.1 General description about grain boundary region
2.4.2 Grain boundary region of BaTiO3 ceramics
2.4.3 Grain boundary region of PLZT ceramics
2.4.4 Grain boundary region and stress
2.4.5 "Core-shell" structure
2.5 Grain Boundary Migration
2.5.1 Generalization
2.5.2 Centripetal and acentric grain boundary migration
2.5.3 Liquid phase and abnormal grain growth during sintering
2.6 Relation between Grain Boundary and Properties
2.6. 1 Influence on mechanical properties
2.6.2 Influence on electric properties
2.7 Summary
References
3 Near-field Acoustic Microscopy of Functional Ceramics
3.1 Introduction
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4 Piezoresponse Force Microscoy of Functional Ceramics
5 Fabrication Processes for Functional Ceramics
6 Review and Prospect of Functional Ceramics
Index
Appendix