Topics in electronic ceramics

Four topics in the field of electronic ceramics are reviewed: multilayer ceramic capacitors, piezoelectric ceramics, electrooptic ceramics, and ferroelectric thin films. They all are related to ferroelectric ceramic materials. The scope of this review is limited to oxide compounds, because oxide ferroelectrics, for the most part, exhibit the most useful properties and have found the most applications. The underlying physical concepts, ceramic and/or thin-film fabrication, structure/property relationships, specific applications, and future prospects in each of the four electronic ceramic application areas are discussed.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>