TY - CHAP AU - Irzaman AU - Hendradi Hardhienata AU - Akhiruddin Maddu AU - Aminullah and Husin Alatas ED - Jose Edgar Alfonso Orjuela Y1 - 2017-07-26 PY - 2017 T1 - The Effects of Lanthanum Dopant on the Structural and Optical Properties of Ferroelectric Thin Films N2 - Rare earth elements have significant physical and chemical properties, which have been made indispensable in many magnetic, electronic, and optical applications. For instance, rare earth magnets have high magnetic intensity that can be retained at high temperatures, making them ideal for aerospace applications. Moreover, rare earth elements allow to fabricate faster, smaller, and lighter devices such as cell phones and hard drives. They are also important for in-ear headphones, microphones, loudspeakers, optical fibers, smartphones, and tablet computers. All these technological possibilities have made sure that the rare earth elements are part of the daily life. Therefore, this book has a main objective to let the readers know useful information about the rare earth elements that possibly allow development of the researches in different fields of science where the rare earth elements are used. BT - Rare Earth Element SP - Ch. 6 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.69029 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.69029 SN - 978-953-51-3402-2 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-25 ER -