A collaboration in functional electroceramics through people exchange
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Materials
Abstract
The functional electroceramics market is multibillion pounds in value and growing year by year. Electroceramic components are vital to the operation of a wide variety of home electronics, mobile communications, computer, automotive and aerospace systems. The UK ceramics industry tends to focus on a number of specialist markets and there are new opportunities in sensors, communications, imaging and related systems as new materials are developed. To enable the UK ceramics community to benefit from the new and emerging techniques for the processing and characterisation of functional electroceramics a series of collaborative exchanges will be undertaken between the three UK universities (Manchester, Sheffield and Imperial College) and universities and industry in Europe (Austria, Germany, Russia, Czech Republic), the USA and Asia (Japan, Taiwan and Singapore). These exchanges will enable the UK researchers (particularly those at an early stage of their careers) to learn new experimental and theoretical techniques. This knowledge and expertise will be utilised in the first instance in the new bilateral collaborative projects, and transferred to the UK user communities (UK universities and UK industry). A number of seminars and a two day Workshop will be held to help the dissemination of knowledge.
Organisations
- University of Manchester (Lead Research Organisation)
- Nagoya Institute of Technology (Project Partner)
- Hitachi (Japan) (Project Partner)
- Research Centre Juelich GmbH (Project Partner)
- Tamkang University (Project Partner)
- Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University (Project Partner)
- National Institute for Materials Science (Project Partner)
- Nanyang Technological University (Project Partner)
- Technical University of Madrid (Project Partner)
- TU Wien (Project Partner)
- Powerwave UK Ltd (Project Partner)
- University of Aveiro (Project Partner)
Publications
Bernardo E
(2013)
Sintered silicophosphate glass ceramics from MBM ash and recycled soda-lime-silica glass
in Advances in Applied Ceramics
Chen X
(2012)
Low Sintering Temperature Microwave Dielectric Ceramics and Composites Based on Bi 2 O 3 - B 2 O 3
in Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Combe E
(2014)
Relationship between microstructure and thermoelectric properties of Bi 2 Sr 2 Co 2 O x bulk materials
in Journal of Materials Research
Dechakupt T
(2008)
Chemical Solution-Deposited BaTiO 3 Thin Films on Ni Foils: Microstructure and Interfaces
in Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Fan J
(2014)
Phase development in ZnO varistors
in Advances in Applied Ceramics
Han Y
(2010)
Structural phase transitions in AgTa0.5Nb0.5O3 thin films
in Journal of Applied Physics
Kim E
(2010)
Effects of packing fraction and bond valence on microwave dielectric properties of A2+B6+O4 (A2+: Ca, Pb, Ba; B6+: Mo, W) ceramics
in Journal of the European Ceramic Society
Kolodiazhnyi T
(2009)
Development of Al2O3-TiO2Al2O3-TiO2 composite ceramics for high-power millimeter-wave applications
in Acta Materialia
Kozyrev A
(2009)
Evaluation of the space charge trap energy levels in the ferroelectric films
in Journal of Applied Physics
Levin I
(2013)
Local structure, pseudosymmetry, and phase transitions in Na 1 / 2 Bi 1 / 2 TiO 3 -K 1 / 2 Bi 1 / 2 TiO 3 ceramics
in Physical Review B