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ferroelectric material
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ferroelectric material

Ceramic dielectric material that, like ferromagnetic materials, has a domain structure that makes it exhibit magnetism and usually the piezoelectric effect. An example is Rochelle salt (potassium sodium tartrate tetrahydrate, KNaC4H4O6.4H2O).



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A renaissance in the field of ferroelectricity has taken place over the past several years ever since the finding of exceptional piezoelectric properties in the lead-oxide class of relaxor ferroelectric materials Pb([Zn.
This structure gives them unusual properties such as high dielectric constant and even ferroelectricity depending on the specific atomic elements incorporated.
 
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