铁电物理的近期发展

介绍了铁电体物理学的基本概念、发展简史、近年来的主要进展以及当前的研究方向。指出铁电体物理学研究的核心是自发极化，发现历史可分为四个阶段。近年来的主要进展有四方面，即：第一性原理的计算，铁电相变的尺寸效应，铁电液晶和铁电聚合物，集成铁电体。当前的研究方向主要有两个，一是低维系统，二是调制结构。

Recent Progress in the Physics of Ferroelectrics

brief introduction is given to the physics of ferroelectrics, inc1uding its basic concepts, history, progress in recent years and present research trends. It is pointed out that the core of the ferroelectrics physics is spontaneous polarization. The history can be di- vided into four stages. Recent years have witnessed significant progress in four aspects, i. e., calculation from first principles, the size effect in ferroe1ectric phase transitions,ferroelectric 1iquid crystals and polymers and integrated ferroelectrics. The principal research trends today are low dimensional systems and modulated structures.