Piezoelectric and electrooptic ferroics – qualitative domain and tensor characteristics

Abstract

The qualitative characteristics of domain states and equilibrium tensor properties are given for 173 piezoelectric (electrooptic) species defined by point-group symmetries of parent and ferroic phases. The number and classification of principal ferroic, ferroelectric, ferroelastic, and piezoelectric (electrooptic) domain states are listed, and the tables and matrices of non-zero independent components of main polar property tensors up to rank 4 of parent and ferroic phases are displayed on www pages.

Keywords:

• ferroic crystals
• piezoelectric materials
• electrooptic materials
• species
• orientation states
• tensor domain states

Acknowledgments

The authors thank Jan Linhart for checking property matrices and Miluše Kreidlová for technical help. This study was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic under the grant no. 202/07/1289.