TY - CHAP AU - Toshio Ogawa ED - Aime Pelaiz Barranco Y1 - 2015-07-29 PY - 2015 T1 - Origin of Piezoelectricity in Piezoelectric Ceramics from the Viewpoints of Elastic Constants Measured by Acoustic Wave Velocities N2 - Ferroelectric materials receive great attention from the scientific international community because of the interesting phenomena they exhibit and their multiple applications such as transducers, capacitors, pyroelectric sensors, sonars, random access memories, etc. The demand for ferroelectric materials for technological applications enforced the in-depth research, in addition to the improvement of processing and characterization techniques. This book contains nine chapters and offers the results of several researches covering fabrication, properties, theoretical topics, and phenomena at the nanoscale. BT - Ferroelectric Materials SP - Ch. 2 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/60793 DO - 10.5772/60793 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -