**Meet the editor**

Dr. Husein Irzaman was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1963. He received the B.S. in Agro-meteorology from Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia, in 1988, his M.S. degree in Physics from the University of Indonesia in 1998, and his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Bandung Technology University, Bandung, Indonesia, in 2005. Since 1997, he has been a resident lecturer in the Phys-

ics Department, Bogor Agricultural University. From 2011, he is Head of the Material Physics Laboratory, Physics Department, Bogor Agricultural University. He is the author of 30 Scopus-indexed journal articles and one book chapter. His research interests include sensors engineering, semiconductor device physics and new material characterization, and ferroelectrics. From 2012, he has been a technical member of the Alternative Energy Division, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Republic of Indonesia.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Ferroelectrics Material and Their Applications 3**

Chapter 2 **Ferroelectric Photovoltaic Effect 9**

Xiaoling Deng

Alexander Skaliukh

**Section 2 Ferroelectrics Applications 71**

Suárez

Irzaman Husein and Renan Prasta Jenie

Chapter 3 **Nonlinear Optical Effects at Ferroelectric Domain Walls 21** Xin Chen, Wieslaw Krolikowski and Yan Sheng

Chapter 4 **About Mathematical Models of Irreversible Polarization**

Chapter 5 **On the Mechanical and Dielectric Properties of Biocomposites Containing Strontium Titanate Particles 73**

Chapter 6 **Lead Zirconium Titanate Films and Devices Made by a Low-Temperature Solution-Based Process 89** Phan Trong Tue and Yuzuru Takamura

Rongli Gao, Zhenhua Wang, Chunlin Fu, Wei Cai, Gang Chen and

**Processes of a Ferroelectric and Ferroelastic Polycrystals 39**

Amarilis Declet-Vega, Nelson Sepúlveda-Ramos and Oscar Marcelo

**Section 1 Ferroelectricity 1**
