Journal of Inorganic Materials ›› 2014, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (5): 449-460.DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1077.2014.13669

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Recent Progress on Bismuth Layer-structured Ferroelectrics

ZHANG Fa-Qiang1, 2, LI Yong-Xiang1   

  1. (1. The Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China; 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China)
  • Received:2013-12-19 Revised:2014-01-23 Published:2014-05-20 Online:2014-04-24
  • About author:ZHANG Fa-Qiang. E-mail: zhangfq@student.sic.ac.cn
  • Supported by:

    National Natural Science Foundation of China (50932007); The Ministry of Science and Technology Project 973(2009CB613305)

Abstract: As an improtant lead-free ferroelectric/piezoelectric system, the past few decades have attracted increasing attention of bismuth layer structured-ferroelectrics (BLSF) due to its comprehensive advantages in the areas of high temperature, high frequency and ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM). In this paper, the recent progresses on the study of this system were reviewed. Firstly, as the basic of other researches, the key issues in strucutre design and microstructure study were dicussed in detail. Then special emphasis was put on ferroelectric/ piezoelectric performance and film technology. Additionally, some new research fields that were closely related to ferroelectric were introduced. In the end, the research directions were also extracted according to the authors’ knowledge.

Key words: bismuth layered structure, ferroelectric, lead-free piezoelectric, ferroelectric random access memory, review

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