Edited by the "father of integrated ferroelectrics", this is a comprehensive summary of emerging applications for ferroelectric materials in energy-related fields. As such, the book reviews both recent advances and future perspectives for these materials with the topics covered including, but not limited to, piezoelectric energy generation, ferroelectric photovoltaics, electrocaloric cooling, electric energy storage, photocatalysis, and first-principles calculations. With its highly application-oriented approach this volume is of high interest to material scientists, solid state physicists, and engineering scientists as well as industrial researchers.

Dr. Haitao Huang is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Physics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. He obtained his Ph.D in Materials Science from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research includes materials for energy storage and conversion, such as supercapacitors, lithium ion batteries and dye-sensitized solar cells, and ferroelectric materials. He has published more than 170 research papers. Dr. James F. Scott has been appointed as Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy and in the School of Chemistry at University of St Andrews, UK, after sixteen years as Professor at Cambridge University, UK. He is an experimental condensed matter physicist with a strong interest in ferroelectric oxides and fluorides. He was elected to the Fellow of the Royal Society (Physics) in 2008 and the Slovenia Academy of Sciences in 2011. He was awarded the Materials Research Society (MRS) gold medal in 2008 and the Jozef Stefan Medal from Slovenia in 2009.

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