ferroelectric
Speech parts
1. ferroelectric - Noun
2. ferroelectric - Adjective
Meaning
ferroelectric (not comparable)
(physics) of, or relating to the permanent electrical polarization of a crystalline dielectric in an electric field
ferroelectric (plural ferroelectrics)
A ferroelectric material
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Examples
Chiral smectic liquid crystals are used in ferroelectric LCDs which are fast-switching binary light modulators.
They polarize ferroelectric thin films with lower and higher electric fields by scanning the surface of the sample with the atomic force microscopy tip.
In 2010 David Field found that prosaic films of chemicals such as nitrous oxide or propane exhibited ferroelectric properties.
See citation and citation Thus, the prefix ferro, meaning iron, was used to describe the property despite the fact that most ferroelectric materials do not contain iron.
The ferroelectric transition, which is caused by the lining up of the orientations of permanent dipoles along a particular direction, is called an order-disorder phase transition.
The spontaneous polarization of ferroelectric materials implies a hysteresis effect which can be used as a memory function, and ferroelectric capacitors are indeed used to make ferroelectric RAM citation for computers and RFID cards.