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In the last few years Land and his coworkers at the Sandia Corporation Laboratories have demonstrated that electrically-controlled birefringence and light scattering can be realized in lead-zirconate-titanate (PZT) ferroelectric ceramics.1–7 The electrically controlled birefringence is related to the change induced by an electric field in the statistically-averaged birefringence of the crystallites comprising the ceramic. The electrically controlled light scattering has been interpreted by Nettleton in terms of domain wall displacement.8 By appropriate choice of modified PZT ceramics and device configuration, it has been possible to devise electrically controlled light shutters, spectral filters, optical memories, light modulators, variable contrast black-and-white displays and multicolor displays.1–4 Subsequently other laboratories have investigated various aspects of image storage and display based on the electrically-controlled birefringence in modified PZT ferroelectric ceramics.9–12 Meanwhile Heartling at Sandia was able to improve the optical transparency of PZT by the addition of various modifiers, culminating in his preparation of the first optically transparent ferroelectric ceramic, lead lanthanum zirconate titanate (PLZT).13–16 The development of the transparent PLZT may well enable the electrically controlled birefringence in these ferroelectric ceramics to realize practical application.
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Albers, W.A., Kaplit, M. (1971). Light Scattering and Birefringence in BaTiO3 Ceramics. In: Albers, W.A. (eds) The Physics of Opto-Electronic Materials. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1947-4_7
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