Introduction to Ferroic Materials

Ferroic materials are important, not only because of the improved understanding of condensed matter, but also because of their present and potential device applications. This book presents a unified description of ferroic materials at an introductory level, with the unifying factor being the occurrence of nondisruptive phase transitions in crystals

Part A: Crystallography 1. Crystal Physics 2. Crystals and the Wavevector Space 3. Phase Transitions in Crystals 4. Classification of Ferroic Materials. Ferrogyrotropy 5. Domains 6. Domain Walls Part B: Classes of Ferroics, Microstructure, Nanostructure, Applications 7. Ferromagnetic Crystals 8. Ferroelectric Crystals 9. Secondary and Higher-Order Ferroics 10. Polycrystal Ferroics and Composite Ferroics 11. Application of Ferroic Materials