Bismuth-containing heterometallic oxides are promising candidates for a variety of
applications with respect to the microelectronics industry. This is not only because of their …

According to the EU-Directives 2002/95/EC, 2002/96/EC, lead-based piezoceramics must
be substituted in the future with more environmentally friendly alternatives, only when a …

Noncentrosymmetric materials are of special interest in materials chemistry owing to their
technologically important properties, such as ferroelectricity and second-order nonlinear …

The development of novel photocatalysts for efficient utilization of solar energy is highly
essential for the most critical humanitarian challenges, ie, energy and water crises as well as …

ABO3 perovskites have fascinated solid-state chemists and physicists for decades because
they display a seemingly inexhaustible variety of chemical and physical properties …

Recent advances in the study of Aurivillius phases (Bi2A n-1BnO3 n+ 3, n= 1− 5) as oxide
ion conductors are presented. The structures of modified Aurivillius phases containing …

Many Aurivillius phases of ferroelectric complex bismuth oxides are currently known. With
the formula Bi 2 A m− 1 B m O 3m+ 3, they all consist of Bi 2 O 2 layers interleaved with …

Abstract The displacive ferroelectric Bi2SrTa209 [M,= 1011.47, a= 5.5306 (5), b--5.5344 (5),
c= 24.9839 (24)/~, Z= 4, Dx= 8.785 g cm-3, Mo Ka, A= 0.7107 A,/z= 806.8 cm-1, F (000) …

The structures of the ferroelectric two-layer Aurivillius phases Bi 2 ANb 2 O 9 (A= Ba, Sr, Ca)
have been refined using a combination of X-ray and neutron powder diffraction data. Bi 2 …

Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) has achieved unparalleled control in the integration of
semiconductors at the nanometer level; its use for the integration of oxides with similar …