Research and Development of Multi-Ferroic Materials and their Engineering Applications

Abstract

Development of higher performance and active actuator/sensor materials is most important to intelligent/smart technologies. Most of solid-state actuator/sensors has some relation with phase transformation during energy conversion between physical properties to mechanical stress/strain actuation. These are called as ferroic materials. In this paper, our recent study on developing new ferroic actuator/sensor and more advanced multi-ferries approach will be presented.