Perovskite Ceramics : Recent Advances and Emerging Applications

Perovskite-based ceramics are a significant class of innovative materials with fascinating physical properties, which are now receiving intensive research attention in condensed matter physics and in the area of practical device applications. Perovskite Ceramics provides a state-of-the-art review on the latest advances in perovskite-based ceramic materials, as well as the development of devices from these materials for different applications.

Perovskite Ceramics: Recent Advances and Emerging Applications is divided into two main parts. The first part focuses on the basics of perovskite-based ceramic materials and includes chapters on the fundamentals, synthesis and processing, characterization, and properties of these materials. Chapters are also included on bulk and thin materials, phase transitions, polaronic effects and the compensation and screening of ferroelectricity. This section will allow the reader to familiarize themselves with the standard traditional approach, but it will also introduce new concepts that are fast evolving in this field. The second part presents an extensive review of up-to-date research on new and innovative advances in perovskite-based ceramic materials. Chapters cover multiferroic applications, lead-free perovskites, energy storage applications, perovskite-based memories, light manipulation and spectral modifications, and solar cells and fuel cells. All these fields of research are rapidly evolving, so the book acts a platform to showcase latest results on optical strategies and materials for light manipulation, and spectral up- and down-conversion too (mainly rare earth doped oxides and complexes).

The book will be an essential reference resource for academic and industrial researchers working in materials research and development particularly in functional and oxide ceramics and perovskites.

• A comprehensive and systematic review of advanced research in perovskite-based ceramics
• Covers both oxide and halide perovskites, their synthesis, processing, properties and applications
• Presents advanced methods of synthesis as well as latest applications
• Discusses all aspects from theory to production
• Covers the most important advances both in terms of new materials and application strategies

Dr. Jose Luis Clabel Huaman is presently, working as a researcher and professor at the Institute of Physics of São Carlos – University of São Paulo, Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Federal University of São Carlos, in 2015. He has remained a post-doctoral fellow at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Institute of Physics of São Carlos – University of São Paulo and the Department of Physics – Viçosa Federal University. His main research experience is in Condensed-Matter Physics and Materials Science. His interdisciplinary research interests include investigating multiferroic composites, and ferro-/piezoelectric and luminescent materials for structural and functional applications. He has monitored various aspects and features of ceramics and thin films with perovskite structures, mainly to understand their structural and opto-electronic behavior and their applications. His research works involve the use of a broad-spectrum of material characterization techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), atomic force microscopy (AFM), Raman and Infrared Spectroscopies, thermal analysis, dielectric/magnetic measurement, luminescence spectroscopy, scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy. He has published more than 15 research articles in high impact international journals.

Dr. Victor Anthony Garcia Rivera achieved his bachelor’s degree in physics from the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, Peru, in 2002. He then went on to obtain his master’s degree in physics from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil in 2005 and PhD degree in physics from the Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil, in 2009. He previously worked at the Institute of Physics of Sao Carlos (USP), Brazil for almost six years and then for one year as a researcher at the Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers at Laval University, in Quebec, Canada. He has also been a program manager of Basic Science Research at CONCYTEC - Peru (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnologica, in Spanish). Currently, he is a principal professor at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima – Peru. He is also the General Editor of the Campus Journal at the University of San Martín de Porres. He is an experimentalist whose research interests include: (i) photonics (fiber and integrated optics, glass materials); (ii) plasmonics (nanowaveguide and plasmon-photon interaction) and (iii) perovskite ceramics (rare-earth substitution and optical properties). He has published over 60 research papers has been a guest editor and author of several book chapters.