Dr Miguel Algueró is Senior Researcher at Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM), of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain. He is a material scientist with a strong expertise in ferroelectrics, mainly for piezoelectric applications, from which he approached the resurgent field of multiferroics. His research interest covers all ceramics and thin films, processing and properties with an emphasis on nanostructuring issues and size effects at the nanoscale. Professor J. Marty Gregg holds a chair in the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen's University Belfast, UK. His current research interests are in the experimental exploration of the behaviour of ferroelectrics at reduced dimensions and in nanoshapes of complex morphology.  He has co-organized various symposia including symposa E- Metal Oxide Nanostructures (EMRS, Strasbourg, 2009), Functional Ceramic Materials and Devices (EUROMAT 2009), and the International Symposium on Integrated Ferroelectrics held in Edinburgh in 2010.Professor Liliana Mitoseriu is based at the Faculty of Physics, University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Iasi, Romania. Prof. Mitoseriu has co-authored 130 peer reviewed papers in the field of ferroelectric and multiferroic oxides. She has written six books for students (in Romanian) and edited two international books addressing modern topics in Electroceramics. She is currently the Chair of the FP7-ESF-COST Action MP0904 Single- and multiphase ferroics and multiferroics with restricted geometries, and the major outputs are presented in this book.

• PrefaceList of ContributorsWhy nanoscale ferroelectrics and multiferroics?Miguel Algueró, J. Marty Gregg and Liliana MitoseriuPart A Nanostructuring: bulk1 Incorporation mechanism and functional properties of Ce-doped BaTiO3 ceramics derived from nanopowders prepared by the modified-Pechini methodAdelina-Carmen Ianculescu, Daniela C. Berger, Catalina A. Vasilescu, Marius Olariu, Bogdan S. Vasile, Lavinia P. Curecheriu, Andreja Gajović and Roxana Truşcă2 Synthesis and ceramic nanostructuring of ferroic and multiferroic low tolerance factor perovskite oxidesTeresa Hungria, Covadonga Correas and Alicia Castro3 Core-shell heterostructures: from particle synthesis to bulk dielectric, ferroelectric and multiferroic composite materialsVincenzo Buscaglia and Maria Teresa Buscaglia4 Modeling of colloidal suspensions for the synthesis of the ferroelectric oxides with complex chemical compositionGregor Trefalt, Bosiljka Tadić and Barbara MaličNanostructuring: thin films5 Self-assemblage and patterning of thin film ferroic nanostructuresTheodor Schneller6 Thin film porous ferroic nanostructures: Strategies and characterizationAlichandra Castro, Paula Ferreira, Stella Skiadopoulou, Paula M. Vilarinho, Liliana P. Ferreira, Margarida Godinho and Brian J. Rodriguez7 Low-temperature photo-chemical solution deposition of ferroelectric and multiferroic thin filmsChristopher De Dobbelaere, An Hardy, Marlies K. Van Bael, Iñigo Bretos, Ricardo Jiménez and M. Lourdes CalzadaNanostructuring: fibers and wires8 Synthesis and properties of ferroelectric nanotubes and nanowires. A reviewVincenzo Buscaglia and Maria Teresa Buscaglia9 Fabrication of one dimensional ferroelectric nano and micro structures by different spinning techniques and their characterizationTony Lusiola and Frank ClemensPART B Characterization (of the nanostructured materials): crystal structure10 Structural characterization of ferroelectric and multiferroic nanostructures by advanced TEM techniquesEtienne Snoeck, Axel Lubk and César Magén11 Raman spectroscopy of nanostructured ferroelectric materialsMarco Deluca and Andreja Gajovic12 Neutron and synchrotron X-ray scattering studies of bulk and nanostructured multiferroic and ferroelectric materialsEvagelia G. Moshopoulou, Pascale Foury-Leylekian, Katharine Page, C. Doubrovsky, Martha Greenblatt and Alan J. HurdCharacterization (of the nanostructured materials): domains13 Advanced characterization of multiferroic materials by scanning probe methods and scanning electron microscopyMichael R. Koblischka and Anjela Koblischka-Veneva14 Electrostatic and Kelvin probe force microscopy for domain imaging of ferroic systemsBrian J. RodriguezPART C Nanoscale effects: bulk properties15 Nanostructured barium titanate ceramics. Intrinsic vs. extrinsic size effectsLiliana Mitoseriu and Lavinia P. Curecheriu16 The effects of ceramic nanostructuring in high sensitivity piezoelectricsHarvey Amorín, Ricardo Jiménez, Jesús Ricote, Alicia Castro and Miguel Algueró17 Correlation between microstructure and electrical properties of ferroelectric relaxorsJ.D. Bobic, J. Macutkevic, R. Grigalaitis, Maksim Ivanov, M.M. Vijatovic Petrovic, Juras Banys and Biljana D. Stojanovic18 Local field engineering approach for tuning dielectric and ferroelectric properties in nanostructured ferroelectrics and compositesLeontin Padurariu and Liliana MitoseriuNanoscale effects: thin film properties19 Ferroelectric phase transitions in epitaxial perovskite filmsMarina Tyunina20 Interfaces in epitaxial ferroelectric layers/multilayers and their effect on the macroscopic electrical propertiesLucian Pintilie, Andra G. Boni, Cristina Chirila, Luminita M. Hrib, Alin Iuga, Lucian Trupina, Ioana Pintilie, Iuliana Pasuk, Raluca Negrea, Corneliu Ghica, Mihaela Botea, Nicoleta Apostol and Cristian M. Teodorescu21 Electric-field control of magnetism based on elastically coupled ferromagnetic and ferroelectric domainsKévin J. A. Franke, Tuomas H. E. Lahtinen, Arianna Casiraghi, Diego López González, Sampo J. Hämäläinen and Sebastiaan van DijkenNanoscale effects: novel phenomena and applications22 Ferroelectric vortices and related configurationsSergei Prosandeev, Ivan I. Naumov, Huaxiang Fu, Laurent Bellaiche, Michael P. D. Campbell,Raymond G. P. McQuaid, Li-Wu Chang, Alina Schilling, Leo. J. McGilly, Amit Kumar and J. Marty Gregg23 Reentrant phenomena in relaxorsAlexei A. Bokov and Zuo-Guang Ye24 Functional twin boundaries: Multiferroicity in confined spacesEkhard. K. H. Salje and Xiangdong Ding25 Novel approaches for genuine single phase room temperature magnetoelectric multiferroicsLynette Keeney, Michael Schmidt, Andreas Amann, Tuhin Maity, Nitin Deepak, Ahmad Faraz, Nikolay Petkov, Saibal Roy, Martyn E. Pemble and Roger W. Whatmore26 Semiconducting and photovoltaic ferroelectrics and multiferroicsAndrew R. Akbashev and Jonathan E SpanierIndex

Dr Miguel Algueró is Senior Researcher at Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM), of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain. He is a material scientist with a strong expertise in ferroelectrics, mainly for piezoelectric applications, from which he approached the resurgent field of multiferroics. His research interest covers all ceramics and thin films, processing and properties with an emphasis on nanostructuring issues and size effects at the nanoscale. Professor J. Marty Gregg holds a chair in the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen's University Belfast, UK. His current research interests are in the experimental exploration of the behaviour of ferroelectrics at reduced dimensions and in nanoshapes of complex morphology.  He has co-organized various symposia including symposa E- Metal Oxide Nanostructures (EMRS, Strasbourg, 2009), Functional Ceramic Materials and Devices (EUROMAT 2009), and the International Symposium on Integrated Ferroelectrics held in Edinburgh in 2010.Professor Liliana Mitoseriu is based at the Faculty of Physics, University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Iasi, Romania. Prof. Mitoseriu has co-authored 130 peer reviewed papers in the field of ferroelectric and multiferroic oxides. She has written six books for students (in Romanian) and edited two international books addressing modern topics in Electroceramics. She is currently the Chair of the FP7-ESF-COST Action MP0904 Single- and multiphase ferroics and multiferroics with restricted geometries, and the major outputs are presented in this book.

• PrefaceList of ContributorsWhy nanoscale ferroelectrics and multiferroics?Miguel Algueró, J. Marty Gregg and Liliana MitoseriuPart A Nanostructuring: bulk1 Incorporation mechanism and functional properties of Ce-doped BaTiO3 ceramics derived from nanopowders prepared by the modified-Pechini methodAdelina-Carmen Ianculescu, Daniela C. Berger, Catalina A. Vasilescu, Marius Olariu, Bogdan S. Vasile, Lavinia P. Curecheriu, Andreja Gajović and Roxana Truşcă2 Synthesis and ceramic nanostructuring of ferroic and multiferroic low tolerance factor perovskite oxidesTeresa Hungria, Covadonga Correas and Alicia Castro3 Core-shell heterostructures: from particle synthesis to bulk dielectric, ferroelectric and multiferroic composite materialsVincenzo Buscaglia and Maria Teresa Buscaglia4 Modeling of colloidal suspensions for the synthesis of the ferroelectric oxides with complex chemical compositionGregor Trefalt, Bosiljka Tadić and Barbara MaličNanostructuring: thin films5 Self-assemblage and patterning of thin film ferroic nanostructuresTheodor Schneller6 Thin film porous ferroic nanostructures: Strategies and characterizationAlichandra Castro, Paula Ferreira, Stella Skiadopoulou, Paula M. Vilarinho, Liliana P. Ferreira, Margarida Godinho and Brian J. Rodriguez7 Low-temperature photo-chemical solution deposition of ferroelectric and multiferroic thin filmsChristopher De Dobbelaere, An Hardy, Marlies K. Van Bael, Iñigo Bretos, Ricardo Jiménez and M. Lourdes CalzadaNanostructuring: fibers and wires8 Synthesis and properties of ferroelectric nanotubes and nanowires. A reviewVincenzo Buscaglia and Maria Teresa Buscaglia9 Fabrication of one dimensional ferroelectric nano and micro structures by different spinning techniques and their characterizationTony Lusiola and Frank ClemensPART B Characterization (of the nanostructured materials): crystal structure10 Structural characterization of ferroelectric and multiferroic nanostructures by advanced TEM techniquesEtienne Snoeck, Axel Lubk and César Magén11 Raman spectroscopy of nanostructured ferroelectric materialsMarco Deluca and Andreja Gajovic12 Neutron and synchrotron X-ray scattering studies of bulk and nanostructured multiferroic and ferroelectric materialsEvagelia G. Moshopoulou, Pascale Foury-Leylekian, Katharine Page, C. Doubrovsky, Martha Greenblatt and Alan J. HurdCharacterization (of the nanostructured materials): domains13 Advanced characterization of multiferroic materials by scanning probe methods and scanning electron microscopyMichael R. Koblischka and Anjela Koblischka-Veneva14 Electrostatic and Kelvin probe force microscopy for domain imaging of ferroic systemsBrian J. RodriguezPART C Nanoscale effects: bulk properties15 Nanostructured barium titanate ceramics. Intrinsic vs. extrinsic size effectsLiliana Mitoseriu and Lavinia P. Curecheriu16 The effects of ceramic nanostructuring in high sensitivity piezoelectricsHarvey Amorín, Ricardo Jiménez, Jesús Ricote, Alicia Castro and Miguel Algueró17 Correlation between microstructure and electrical properties of ferroelectric relaxorsJ.D. Bobic, J. Macutkevic, R. Grigalaitis, Maksim Ivanov, M.M. Vijatovic Petrovic, Juras Banys and Biljana D. Stojanovic18 Local field engineering approach for tuning dielectric and ferroelectric properties in nanostructured ferroelectrics and compositesLeontin Padurariu and Liliana MitoseriuNanoscale effects: thin film properties19 Ferroelectric phase transitions in epitaxial perovskite filmsMarina Tyunina20 Interfaces in epitaxial ferroelectric layers/multilayers and their effect on the macroscopic electrical propertiesLucian Pintilie, Andra G. Boni, Cristina Chirila, Luminita M. Hrib, Alin Iuga, Lucian Trupina, Ioana Pintilie, Iuliana Pasuk, Raluca Negrea, Corneliu Ghica, Mihaela Botea, Nicoleta Apostol and Cristian M. Teodorescu21 Electric-field control of magnetism based on elastically coupled ferromagnetic and ferroelectric domainsKévin J. A. Franke, Tuomas H. E. Lahtinen, Arianna Casiraghi, Diego López González, Sampo J. Hämäläinen and Sebastiaan van DijkenNanoscale effects: novel phenomena and applications22 Ferroelectric vortices and related configurationsSergei Prosandeev, Ivan I. Naumov, Huaxiang Fu, Laurent Bellaiche, Michael P. D. Campbell,Raymond G. P. McQuaid, Li-Wu Chang, Alina Schilling, Leo. J. McGilly, Amit Kumar and J. Marty Gregg23 Reentrant phenomena in relaxorsAlexei A. Bokov and Zuo-Guang Ye24 Functional twin boundaries: Multiferroicity in confined spacesEkhard. K. H. Salje and Xiangdong Ding25 Novel approaches for genuine single phase room temperature magnetoelectric multiferroicsLynette Keeney, Michael Schmidt, Andreas Amann, Tuhin Maity, Nitin Deepak, Ahmad Faraz, Nikolay Petkov, Saibal Roy, Martyn E. Pemble and Roger W. Whatmore26 Semiconducting and photovoltaic ferroelectrics and multiferroicsAndrew R. Akbashev and Jonathan E SpanierIndex