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CONTENTS Preface, XI List of Contributors, XIII Part I. Reports Relation Between the Vacancy-Charge Distribution and the efg in Cubic Perovskite-Type Compounds R.E. Alonso and A. Lopez-Garcia................................................................... 3 Boracites: A Structural Family Presenting a Variety of Ferroic Phase Transitions A.G. Castellanos-Guzman, M. Czank, J. Reyes-Gomez, J. Campa-Molina, Arun Kumar, Gurvinderjit Singh, V.S. Tiwari, and V.K. Wadhawan....................................................................................... 37 Ferroelectric Dram Cell Without a Storage Capacitor Jan-Ping Han.................................................................................................. 73 Investigation of the Two-Dimensional Polar Molecular Assembly Using Multipurpose Nonlinear Optical Microscope Norikata Kato, Kentaro Saito, Toshinori Serata, Hiroaki Aida, and Yoshiaki Uesu ……………………………………………………… 81 Investigation of the Two-Dimensional Polar Molecular Assembly Using Multipurpose Nonlinear Optical Microscope J. K. Krüger, C. Fischer, J. Baller, A. le Coutre, W. Manglkammer, P.Damman ,B. Ploss, R. Heppelmann............................................................... 111 Hydrothermal PZT Thin Film and its Application to Actuators and Sensors Minoru K. Kurosawa, Takeshi Morita, Takefumi Kanda, Hidehiko Yasui, and Toshiro Higuchi................................................................ 149 Dielectric And Structural Properties And Quasi-One Dimensionality of The BetaineArsenate-Phosphate Mixed Crystal System S. Lanceros-Méndez and G. Schaack, A. Klöperpieper.............................................................................................. 159 The Relation Between Ferroelectric And Magnetic Transitions In A Hexagonal Rbcobr3 Kiyoko Morishita............................................................................................ 209 Part II. Brief Reports Preparation of Tungsten Bronze Structured Ferroelectric ba2nanb5o15 Thin Films and Their Characterizations Shizutoshi Ando and Takeyo Tsukamoto.......................................................... 223 New Mechanism of Molecular Ferroelectricity: Thermo- and Photo-Induced Neutral-Ionic Transformation H. Cailleau, E. Collet, M. Buron-Le Cointe, M.H. Lemee-Cailleau, T. Luty, S. Koshihara, and P. Czarnecki.......................................................... 231 Scanning Force Microscopy Approach: Polarization Phenomena in Ferroelectrics at Nanoscale Alexei Gruverman............................................................................................ 235 Relaxation Time Distribution Function Of Dipole Glass-dradp Jong-Jean Kim, Yun-Seock Choi, and Bog-Gi Kim........................................ 239 Thin Film Growth, Interdiffusion, and Hydrogen-Induced Degradation Phenomena in pb(zrxti1-x)o3 (pzt) and Srbi2ta2O9 (Sbt) Ferroelectric Capacitors A.R. Krauss, O. Auciello, J. Im, A. Dhote, R. Ramesh, and S. Aggarwal.............................................................................................. 243 A Discussion on the Crystal Structures of the pb-Based Complex Perovskites pbfe0.5nb0.5o3 and pbfe0.5ta0.5O3 Nathascia Lampis, Alessandra Geddo Lehmann, and Philippe Sciau........................................................................................... 245 Field Induced Evolution of the Multidomain Microregions in Relaxor (6-8)/65/35 PLZT Ceramics E.L. Rumyantsev and V. Ya. Shur.................................................................... 249 Domain Engineering in Bulk Ferroelectrics V. Ya. Shur..................................................................................................... 253 Study of the Phase Diagram of the sn2p2(s1-xsex)6 Crystal Family Using a Lattice Model G.H.F. van Raaij and T. Janssen...................................................................... 257 Ferroelectricity in Photorefractives Tat’yana R. Volk............................................................................................. 259 Thin Film Effects in the Ferroelectric pbtio3 Kiyotaka Wasa.............................................................................................. 263 Key Word Index……………………………………………………………………..269 Contents of FERROELECTRICS.Vol.1. Frontier in Science and Technology Series. List of Titles. FSRC BOOKS of ABSTRACTS in Science and Technology Conference Series. List of Titles.