The potassium sodium niobate (K x Na 1 −x)NbO 3 (KNN) family with the perovskite structure is a technologically important lead-free piezoelectric material. At first, the nature of end members, the ...

A group synthesized multilayer perovskites with four and five layers, which were difficult to synthesize in the past. Analyzing the materials revealed a unique function in which they switch their ...

A group of Nagoya University researchers in Japan has synthesized 4- and 5-layered versions of the important electrical material perovskite. Analyzing the mechanism of ferroelectricity in the material ...