Symmetry Considerations for Ferroelectric Materials and Flexoelectricity
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 3528
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ferroelectrics are inseparable from symmetry breaking. In these and other related materials symmetry plays important role for the interpretation of observed phenomena, and enables their use in devices such as memory and reconfigurable electronics.
This Special Issue invites you to submit original research works, review articles, and short communications related to symmetry considerations for ferro-, antiferro-, piezo-, pyro-, and flexo-electricity, as well as other related effects. The impact of material’s symmetry as well as symmetry of defects, boundary conditions and applied stimuli on structure, properties and dynamics are of interest. This special issue aims to promote knowledge exchange for this important scientific direction, building at the intersection of physics, mathematics, and materials science.
The aims and scopes of the Issue include the developments to the continuum theory and phase field modeling. The role of symmetry in kinetics and dynamics of ferroelectrics, Definition/refinement of the thermodynamic potentials from symmetry, ab initio data, and practice are also welcome.
Dr. Peter V. Yudin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Ferroelectricity
- Flexoelectricity
- Polarization
- Strain
- Tensor
- Pyroelectricity
- Continuum mechanics
- Boundary conditions
- Higher order elasticity
- Electro-mechanical coupling
- Piezoelectricity
- Electrostriction
- Domains
- Landau theory
- Phase field
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