Table of Contents: Vol. 47, No. 9 (2008)

Special Issue: Ferroelectric Materials and Their Applications

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• Thin Films
• Multiferroics
• Ferroelectrics and Polymers
• Piezoelectrics
• Microwave Materials
• Fundamentals

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Thin Films

7475-7479 : Preparation of BaTiO₃ Films on Si Substrate with MgO Buffer Layer by RF Magnetron Sputtering

Wen-Ching Shih, Yuan-Sung Liang, and Mu-Shiang Wu
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (194K)]

7480-7485 : Fabrication of BaTiO₃ Thin Films Using Modified Chemical Solutions and Sintering Method

Kiyotaka Tanaka, Kazuyuki Suzuki, and Kazumi Kato
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (406K)]

7486-7489 : Oxygen Sensing Properties of SrTiO₃ Thin Films

Toru Hara, Takashi Ishiguro, Naoki Wakiya, and Kazuo Shinozaki
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (121K)]

7490-7493 : Fabrication of (Ba_0.6,Sr_0.4)TiO₃ Thick Films by Aerosol Deposition Method for Application to Embedded Multilayered Capacitor Structures

Daniel Popovici, Hiroki Tsuda, and Jun Akedo
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (430K)]

7494-7499 : Effect of Interface Structure on Electrical Properties of (Ba,Sr)TiO₃ Thin Films on Glazed Alumina Substrate

Takashi Nozaka, Yoji Mizutani, Bhakdisongkhram Gun, Masahiro Echizen, Takashi Nishida, Hiroaki Takeda, Kiyoshi Uchiyama, and Tadashi Shiosaki
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (335K)]

7500-7504 : Microwave Tunable Devices Composed of Coplanar Waveguide Line with (Ba_0.6,Sr_0.4)TiO₃/Au/Cr/(Ba_0.6,Sr_0.4)TiO₃ Sandwich Structure

Minoru Noda, Shigeyuki Watanabe, Kousuke Seki, Takeshi Kanashima, and Masanori Okuyama
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (1023K)]

7505-7509 : Epitaxial Growth and Ferroelectric Properties of PbTiO₃ Nanoislands and Thin Films Grown on Single-Crystalline Pt Films

Hironori Fujisawa, Yoshihiro Seioh, Masayoshi Kume, and Masaru Shimizu
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (3007K)]

7510-7513 : Raman Spectroscopy Study of Oxygen Vacancies in PbTiO₃ Thin Films Generated Heat-Treated in Hydrogen Atmosphere

Ken Nishida, Minoru Osada, Hironari Takeuchi, Ishimoto Yosiaki, Joe Sakai, Nobuaki Ito, Rikyu Ikariyama, Takafumi Kamo, Takashi Fujisawa, Hiroshi Funakubo, Takashi Katoda, and Takashi Yamamoto
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (195K)]

7514-7518 : Origin of Compressive Residual Stress in Alkoxide Derived PbTiO₃ Thin Film on Si Wafer

Tomoya Ohno, Babara Mali\uc, Hiroaki Fukazawa, Naoki Wakiya, Hisao Suzuki, Takeshi Matsuda, and Marija Kosec
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (155K)]

7519-7522 : Rapid Crystallization of Sol–Gel-Deposited Lead Zirconate Titanate Thin Films by 2.45 GHz Microwave Irradiation

Zhan Jie Wang, Yuka Otsuka, Ziping Cao, Noboru Yoshikawa, and Hiroyuki Kokawa
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (397K)]

7523-7526 : Low-Temperature Crystallization of PbZr_0.3Ti_0.7O₃ Film Induced by High-Oxygen-Pressure Processing

Xiaodong Zhang, Xiangjian Meng, Jinglan Sun, Tie Lin, Jianhua Ma, Junhao Chu, and Joonghoe Dho
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (383K)]

7527-7532 : A Ferroelectric Gate Field Effect Transistor with a ZnO/Pb(Zr,Ti)O₃ Heterostructure Formed on a Silicon Substrate

Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yukihiro Kaneko, and Yoshihisa Kato
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (488K)]

7533-7536 : Microelectromechanical Systems-Based Electrostatic Field Sensor Using Pb(Zr,Ti)O₃ Thin Films

Takeshi Kobayashi, Syoji Oyama, Masaharu Takahashi, Ryutaro Maeda, and Toshihiro Itoh
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (179K)]

7537-7540 : In-Plane Lattice Strain Evaluation in Piezoelectric Microcantilever by Two-Dimensional X-ray Diffraction

Hitoshi Morioka, Keisuke Saito, Takeshi Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Kurosawa, and Hiroshi Funakubo
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (426K)]

7541-7544 : Electrooptic and Piezoelectric Properties of (Pb,La)(Zr,Ti)O₃ Films with Various Zr/Ti Ratios

Hiromi Shima, Takashi Iijima, Hiroshi Funakubo, Takashi Nakajima, Hiroshi Naganuma, and Soichiro Okamura
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (743K)]

7545-7548 : Electro-optic Anisotropy of Epitaxially Grown (Pb,La)(Zr,Ti)O₃ Films Fabricated by Modified Sol–Gel Process

Masahiro Echizen, Takeshi Fujii, Takashi Nozaka, Takashi Nishida, Hiroaki Takeda, Kiyoshi Uchiyama, and Tadashi Shiosaki
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (139K)]

7549-7552 : Effect of Eu/Sr Ratios on Ferroelectric and Fluorescent Properties of Eu-Substituted Strontium Bismuth Tantalate Films

Koji Aizawa and Yusuke Ohtani
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (174K)]

7553-7555 : Effects of Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance Oxygen Plasma Irradiation on Properties of Insulator/Ge-Semiconductor Interfaces Prior to Germanium Nitride Formation

Yohei Otani, Yukio Fukuda, Tetsuya Sato, Kiyokazu Nakagawa, Hiroshi Toyota, and Toshiro Ono
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (378K)]

7556-7560 : Langmuir–Blodgett Fabrication of Nanosheet-Based Dielectric Films without an Interfacial Dead Layer

Minoru Osada, Kosho Akatsuka, Yasuo Ebina, Yoshinori Kotani, Kanta Ono, Hiroshi Funakubo, Shigenori Ueda, Keisuke Kobayashi, Kazunori Takada, and Takayoshi Sasaki
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (307K)]

7561-7564 : Effects of Flat HfO₂ Films Derived from Diethanolamine Solution on Structure and Properties of Metal/Ferroelectrics/Insulator/Semiconductor

Kazuyuki Suzuki, Kiyotaka Tanaka, and Kazumi Kato
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (381K)]

7565-7569 : Development of Pt/MgO(100) Buffer Layers for Orientation Control of Perovskite Oxide Thin Films

Tatsuro Matsumoto, Kazuhiro Tamai, Yuuji Murashima, Kazuki Komaki, and Shigeki Nakagawa
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (176K)]

Multiferroics

7570-7573 : Effect of Mn Substitution for Multiferroic BiFeO₃ Probed by High-Resolution Soft-X-ray Spectroscopy

Tohru Higuchi, Takeshi Hattori, Wataru Sakamoto, Naoyuki Itoh, Tetsuo Shimura, Toshinobu Yogo, Peng Yao, Yi-Sheng Liu, Per-Anders Glans, Chinglin Chang, Ziyu Wu, and Jinghua Guo
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (136K)]

7574-7578 : Annealing Temperature Dependences of Ferroelectric and Magnetic Properties in Polycrystalline Co-Substituted BiFeO₃ Films

Hiroshi Naganuma, Jun Miura, Mitsumasa Nakajima, Hiromi Shima, Soichiro Okamura, Shintaro Yasui, Hiroshi Funakubo, Ken Nishida, Takashi Iijima, Masaki Azuma, Yasuo Ando, Kenji Kamishima, Koichi Kakizaki, and Nobuyuki Hiratsuka
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (309K)]

7579-7581 : Rhombohedral–Tetragonal Phase Boundary with High Curie Temperature in (1-x)BiCoO₃–xBiFeO₃ Solid Solution

Masaki Azuma, Seiji Niitaka, Naoaki Hayashi, Kengo Oka, Mikio Takano, Hiroshi Funakubo, and Yuichi Shimakawa
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (220K)]

7582-7585 : Crystal Structure and Electrical Properties of {100}-Oriented Epitaxial BiCoO₃–BiFeO₃ Films Grown by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition

Shintaro Yasui, Hiroshi Naganuma, Soichiro Okamura, Ken Nishida, Takashi Yamamoto, Takashi Iijima, Masaki Azuma, Hitoshi Morioka, Keisuke Saito, Mutsuo Ishikawa, Tomoaki Yamada, and Hiroshi Funakubo
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (495K)]

7586-7589 : Composition Dependence in BiFeO₃ Film Capacitor with Suppressed Leakage Current by Nd and Mn Cosubstitution and Their Ferroelectric Properties

Takeshi Kawae, Hisashi Tsuda, Hiroshi Naganuma, Satoru Yamada, Minoru Kumeda, Soichiro Okamura, and Akiharu Morimoto
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (553K)]

7590-7594 : Local Structure of BiFeO₃–BaTiO₃ Mixture

Yasuhiro Yoneda, Kenji Yoshii, Shinji Kohara, Shuji Kitagawa, and Shigeo Mori
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (437K)]

7595-7598 : Effect of Oxygen Vacancies on Charge Ordered Structure in YFe₂O_4-δ

Shigeo Mori, Satoshi Shinohara, Yoji Matsuo, Yoichi Horibe, Kenji Yoshii, and Naoshi Ikeda
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (356K)]

7599-7602 : Magnetic and Dielectric Properties of HoFe₂O₄ and R_1-xR'_xFe₂O₄ (R, R': Rare Earths)

Kenji Yoshii, Yasuhiro Yoneda, Daisuke Maeda, Yusuke Yokota, Takamasa Michiuchi, Takuma Komatsu, Naoshi Ikeda, Yoji Matsuo, and Shigeo Mori
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (284K)]

7603-7606 : Modification of Ferroelectric Properties of BaTiO₃–CoFe₂O₄ Multiferroic Composite Thin Film by Application of Magnetic Field

Shigeki Sawamura, Naoki Wakiya, Naonori Sakamoto, Kazuo Shinozaki, and Hisao Suzuki
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (230K)]

Ferroelectrics and Polymers

7607-7611 : Domain Size Effect on Dielectric Properties of Barium Titanate Ceramics

Takuya Hoshina, Kayo Takizawa, Jianyong Li, Takeshi Kasama, Hirofumi Kakemoto, and Takaaki Tsurumi
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (367K)]

7612-7616 : Preparation of Highly Dispersed Barium Titanate Nanoparticles from Barium Titanyl Oxalate Nanoparticles and Their Dielectric Properties

Satoshi Wada, Shuhei Kondo, Chikako Moriyoshi, and Yoshihiro Kuroiwa
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (238K)]

7617-7622 : Synthesis and Dielectric-Magnetic Properties of Rare-Earth (La, Nd, Sm)-Modified Bi₄Ti₃O₁₂

Tatsuhiro Shigyo, Hajime Kiyono, Junya Nakano, Hidenobu Itoh, and Junichi Takahashi
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (569K)]

7623-7629 : High-Performance Bi_0.5Na_0.5TiO₃ Single Crystals Grown by High-Oxygen-Pressure Flux Method

Katsuya Yamamoto, Muneyasu Suzuki, Yuji Noguchi, and Masaru Miyayama
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (308K)]

7630-7634 : Preparation of Inkjet-Printed NiO Films for Ba(Ti,Zr)O₃-Based Ceramics and Application to Multilayer Ceramics with Ni Electrodes

Yuichi Sakai, Tomoaki Futakuchi, and Masatoshi Adachi
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (256K)]

7635-7637 : Characteristic Pressure Dependence of Spontaneous Polarization in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal

Hiroyuki Uehara
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (87K)]

7638-7641 : Helical Structure in Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals

Hirokazu Furue, Hiroe Kuramochi, and Daisaku Kakinuma
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (133K)]

7642-7645 : Electrically Controlled Piezoelectric Motion of Piezoelectric Chiral Polymeric Fibers

Masahiro Honda, Michiya Sawano, Yasuhiro Uenaka, Katsunori Morii, Ken Yamamoto, and Yoshiro Tajitsu
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (145K)]

Piezoelectrics

7646-7649 : Preparation and Properties of BaTiO₃ Ceramics by Spark Plasma Sintering

Hiroshi Maiwa
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (382K)]

7650-7654 : Effects of Pressure on Piezoelectric and Dielectric Responses of Relaxor Ferroelectric Solid Solution Pb(Mg_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃–PbTiO₃ Binary System Ceramics near a Morphotropic Phase Boundary Composition

Naohiko Yasuda, Koichi Ozawa, Md. M. Rahaman, Hidehiro Ohwa, Yohachi Yamashita, Makoto Iwata, and Yoshihiro Ishibashi
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (263K)]

7655-7658 : Giant Transverse-Mode Electromechanical Coupling Factor and Piezoelectric Strain in Relaxor Single-Crystal Plates Evaluated Using P–E Hysteresis Loop

Toshio Ogawa
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (397K)]

7659-7663 : Piezoelectric Properties of (Bi_1/2Na_1/2)TiO₃-Based Solid Solution for Lead-Free High-Power Applications

Yuji Hiruma, Tomomi Watanabe, Hajime Nagata, and Tadashi Takenaka
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (547K)]

7664-7668 : Fabrication of High-Density (Bi,La)(Zn,Mg,Ti)O₃–PbTiO₃ Solid Solutions with Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Functionalities by Microstructural Control

Masafumi Kobune, Wataru Adachi, Kazuya Kitada, Atsushi Mineshige, Tetsuo Yazawa, Hideshi Yamaguchi, and Koichiro Honda
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (567K)]

7669-7672 : Synthesis of KNbO₃ Piezoelectric Ceramics Using Citrate Precursors

Ken-ichi Kakimoto, Takeshi Ito, and Hitoshi Ohsato
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (235K)]

7673-7677 : Synthesis of Nondoped Potassium Niobate Ceramics by Ultrasonic Assisted Hydrothermal Method

Mutsuo Ishikawa, Yoichi Kadota, Norihito Takiguchi, Hiroshi Hosaka, and Takeshi Morita
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (752K)]

7678-7684 : Preparation of Barium Titanate–Potassium Niobate Solid Solution System Ceramics and Their Piezoelectric Properties

Satoshi Wada, Momoyo Nitta, Nobuhiro Kumada, Daisuke Tanaka, Masahito Furukawa, Satoshi Ohno, Chikako Moriyoshi, and Yoshihiro Kuroiwa
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (336K)]

7685-7688 : Hydrothermal Synthesis of (K,Na)NbO₃ Particles

Fan Zhang, Lu Han, Shan Bai, Tiedong Sun, Tomoaki Karaki, and Masatoshi Adachi
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (304K)]

7689-7692 : Depolarization Temperature Shift of Li_0.08Na_0.92NbO₃ Lead-Free Piezoelectric Ceramics by High-Electric-Field Poling

Rintaro Aoyagi, Akihiro Takeda, Makoto Iwata, Masaki Maeda, Takashi Nishida, and Tadashi Shiosaki
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (224K)]

7693-7697 : C-axis-Oriented (Sr,Ca)₂NaNb₅O₁₅ Multilayer Piezoelectric Ceramics Fabricated Using High-Magnetic-Field Method

Hiroyuki Shimizu, Yutaka Doshida, Satoshi Tanaka, and Keizo Uematsu
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (424K)]

7698-7701 : Vibration Control of Piezoelectric Lead Zirconate Titanate Ceramics Using Negative Capacitance

Jun Takarada, Kenji Imoto, Ken Yamamoto, Munehiro Date, Eiichi Fukada, and Yoshiro Tajitsu
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (159K)]

7702-7706 : A Shear-Mode Ultrasonic Motor Using Potassium Sodium Niobate-Based Ceramics with High Mechanical Quality Factor

Enzhu Li, Hirofumi Kakemoto, Takuya Hoshina, and Takaaki Tsurumi
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (572K)]

Microwave Materials

7707-7710 : Simulation and Fabrication of Embedded Capacitors in the Multilayer Printed Circuit Board

Hee-Wook You, Se-Ho Kim, and Jung-Hyuk Koh
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (428K)]

7711-7715 : Phase Shift of a Coplanar Waveguide by Bias Voltage on Thick Lead Zirconate Titanate Film at Microwave Frequency

Kouji Shibata, Takashi Iijima, and Yoichiro Masuda
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (550K)]

7716-7720 : Crystal Structural Characterization and Microwave Dielectric Properties of Ca(Ta_2-xNb_x)O₆ Ceramics

Akinori Kan and Hirotaka Ogawa
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (198K)]

7721-7724 : Microwave Dielectric Properties of Ca_0.8Sr_0.2TiO₃–Li_0.5Sm_0.5TiO₃ Ceramics with Near-Zero Temperature Coefficient of Resonant Frequency

Kang Yan, Naoto Shiichi, Tomoaki Karaki, and Masatoshi Adachi
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (606K)]

7725-7728 : Analysis of Dielectric Response of TiO₂ in Terahertz Frequency Region by General Harmonic Oscillator Model

Naoki Matsumoto, Tadasu Hosokura, Keisuke Kageyama, Hiroshi Takagi, Yukio Sakabe, and Masanori Hangyo
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (295K)]

7729-7731 : Quality Factor of Forsterite for Ultrahigh Frequency Dielectrics Depending on Synthesis Process

Minato Ando, Hitoshi Ohsato, Isao Kagomiya, and Tsutomu Tsunooka
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (487K)]

Fundamentals

7732-7734 : Generation of Two Self-Pumped Phase-Conjugated Waves at 532 nm by Nanosecond Pulsed Laser

Hiroshi Miyao, Mihoko Wakui, and Masafumi Yamashita
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (134K)]

7735-7739 : First-Principles Study of Lead-Free Piezoelectric SnTiO₃

Yoshitaka Uratani, Tatsuya Shishidou, and Tamio Oguchi
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (237K)]

7740-7744 : Brillouin Scattering Studies of Dynamics of Polar Nanoregions in Pb[(In_1/2Nb_1/2)_0.65Ti_0.35]O₃ Single Crystals

V. Sivasubramanian, Shinya Tsukada, and Seiji Kojima
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (1788K)]

7745-7748 : Electron Charge Density Study of (Na_1-xK_x)NbO₃ in Cubic Structure

Chikako Moriyoshi, Jun-ichi Kato, Yoshihiro Terado, Satoshi Wada, Masaki Takata, and Yoshihiro Kuroiwa
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (583K)]

7749-7752 : Phase Diagram of Mixed Crystals of Bi_4-xSm_xTi₃O₁₂

Makoto Iwata, Akihiro Toya, Rintaro Aoyagi, Masaki Maeda, and Yoshihiro Ishibashi
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (1097K)]

7753-7756 : Dielectric Properties and Phase Transition in CaCu₃Ti₄O₁₂ at High Temperatures

Akira Onodera, Masaki Takesada, Keiichi Kawatani, and Shogo Hiramatsu
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (909K)]

7757-7763 : Magnetic Properties of Optical Quantum Transition Line Shapes and Line Widths of Electron–Piezoelectric Potential Phonon Interacting Materials under Circularly Oscillating Fields

Joung Young Sug, Su Ho Lee, Jun Yong Choi, Geon Sa-Gong, and Jong Jae Kim
Published September 19, 2008
[Abstract] [Full Text PDF (294K)]

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