Perovskites Basics: Finding Good Review Articles

[rsr_life]

Hello,

Could you point out a good article(s) covering Perovskite crystal structures? There's plenty of literature out there covering perovskite structures, mostly properties or applications of individual crystals. Googling results are either very specific or too general or complete textbooks.

If you've worked on perovskites before, or are familiar with it, is there a good review article covering the basics and why these structures are so popular and the subject of so much research?

I'm doing an Electrical engineering graduate class review of perovskites, focusing on the transverse optical modes and would like to cover a few well cited /classic papers to give everyone a background on these crystals in general, and suggest materials for further reading if students are interested.

I'm at a University, so I do have access to published papers. My usual process of tracking down the more popular papers through references seem to have taken me nowhere so far.

Thank you very much.

 

[johng23]

Well if you look at the wikipedia article, it talks about a number of interesting functional properties that perovskites can display. It also talks about how the size requirements for stability of the cubic structure are stringent. I only know a limited amount about the specific case of tetragonal perovskite ferroelectrics. But it seems like those stability requirements are probably related to all (or most of)these functional properties you can observe. So I would suggest picking a few of those and seeing how the perovskite structure influences that particular property.

 

[wsttiger]

I don't know exactly what you're looking for but a lot of the transition metal oxides have a perovskite (either perfect but could be severely distorted) structure. Transition metal oxides are interesting today but many exotic properties such as high-Tc superconductivity, CMR (colossal magnetoresistance), ferroelectricity, etc. are exhibited by these materials.

There's a good review by Imada in the Review of Modern Physics (circa 1998) entitled "Metal-insulator transition", i.e. google "metal-insulator transition imada" and it's the first link.

You mentioned optical transverse modes so I'm assuming that these are phonon modes. So maybe include "phonon modes transition metal oxides" in a search as well.

Hope this helps!