Advanced Solid State Physics

Structural phase transitions

Outline
• Tin
• Iron
• Pyroelectricity     W Pyroelektrizität.pdf
• Ferroelectricity     W Ferroelektrizität.pdf
• Paraelectricity     W
• Piezoelectricity     W
• Antiferroelectricity     W
• Perovskites     W

Reading
Kittel chapter 16: the sections on structural phase transitions and ferroelectrics

Resources
• An interesting discussion of structural phase transitions in iron: The surprising role of magnetism on the phase stability of Fe (Ferro), Calphad Vol 33, Pages 3-7, 2009.
• DFT calculation of pressure induced phase transition in silicon (pdf), Michael Scherbela, 2015