Preface xv
1 Ferroic Materials: From Past to Present 1
Sandeep Yadav, Pallavi Jain and Prashant Singh
2 An Overview of Ferroic Materials 19
M. Rizwan, K. Nawaz, F. Arooj, F. Noor and A. Ayub
3 Future Perspectives of Ferroic/Multiferroic Materials 35
Sajida Shamsher, Maria Wasim, Aneela Sabir, Muhammad Sahfiq, Abdur Rehman Mushtaq Ahmad and Ishna Adeefa
4 Basic Principles and Measurement Techniques of Electrocaloric Effect in Ferroelectric Materials 55
Madhushree P., N. S. Kiran Kumar, P. Saidi Reddy and K. C. Sekhar
5 Ferroelectric/Ferroelastoelectric Materials: Preparation, Improvement, and Characterizations 99
Serkan Baslayici and Mehmet Bugdayci
6 Elastocaloric Effect in Ferroelectric Materials 125
Uzma Hira, Uswa Ameen and Atfa Ashraf
7 Effective Flexomagnetic/Flexoelectric Sensitivity in Ferroics / Nanosized Ferroic Materials 157
Uzma Hira and Asifa Safdar
8 Advancements in Ferroic Thin Films, Multilayers, and Heterostructures 173
Abdur Rehman Mushtaq Ahmad, Maria Wasim, Aneela Sabir, Muhammad Shafiq, Rafi Ullah Khan and Farhan Asghar
9 Physics of Multiferroic Materials 207
M. Rizwan, A. Ayub and S. Ilyas
10 Overview of Comparison Between Primary Ferroic Crystals with Secondary Ferroic Crystals 227
V. Renuga
11 Robust Domain Boundary Engineering of Ferroic and Multiferroic Materials 257
Uzma Hira, Ayeza Arshad and Abdul Sattar
12 Magnetoelectric, Dielectric, and Optical Characteristics of Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Materials 279
M. S. Hasan, Sabahat Urossha, M. Zulqarnain and S. S. Ali
13 Ferroic Characteristics of Metal-Halide Perovskites 305
Nawishta Jabeen, Ahmad Hussain, Najam ul Hassan and Jazib Ali
References 321
Index 327
