TY - CHAP AU - Algirdas Audzijonis AU - Leonardas Žigas AU - Raimundas Sereika and Raimundas Žaltauskas ED - Toshio Ogawa Y1 - 2016-08-24 PY - 2016 T1 - Electronic Structure and Piezoelectric Properties of SbSI Crystals N2 - The science and technology in the area of piezoelectric ceramics are extremely progressing, especially the materials research, measurement technique, theory and applications, and furthermore, demanded to fit social technical requests such as environmental problems. While they had been concentrated on piezoelectric ceramics composed of lead-containing compositions, such as lead zirconate titanate (PZT) and lead titanate, at the beginning because of the high piezoelectricity, recently lead water pollution by soluble PZT of our environment must be considered. Therefore, different new compositions of lead-free ceramics in order to replace PZT are needed. Until now, there have been many studies on lead-free ceramics looking for new morphotropic phase boundaries, ceramic microstructure control to realize high ceramic density, including composites and texture developments, and applications to new evaluation techniques to search for high piezoelectricity. The purpose of this book is focused on the latest reports in piezoelectric materials such as lead-free ceramics, single crystals, and thin films from viewpoints of piezoelectric materials, piezoelectric science, and piezoelectric applications. BT - Piezoelectric Materials SP - Ch. 5 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/64223 DO - 10.5772/64223 SN - 978-953-51-2559-4 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -