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)
- Technical University of Madrid (Project Partner)
- TU Wien (Project Partner)
- Nanyang Technological University (Project Partner)
- Powerwave UK Ltd (Project Partner)
- University of Aveiro (Project Partner)
Publications
ZUBAIR M
(2013)
Bulk and conductive mode investigations of Pb free PTCR ceramics with high switch temperature
in Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan
Zubair M
(2013)
Bulk response and grain boundary microelectrical activity of high T C BaTiO 3 -(Bi 1/2 K 1/2 )TiO 3 -based positive temperature coefficient of resistance ceramics
in Journal of Materials Research
Vilarinho P
(2012)
Layered composite thick films for dielectric applications
in Journal of the European Ceramic Society
Takeda H
(2011)
Characterization of Grain Boundaries of Lead-Free Semiconducting Ceramics Using BaTiO<sub>3</sub>-(Bi<sub>1/2</sub>K<sub>1/2</sub>)TiO<sub>3</sub> System
in Key Engineering Materials
Srivastava D
(2015)
Crystal structure and thermoelectric properties of Sr-Mo substituted CaMnO3: a combined experimental and computational study.
in Journal of materials chemistry. C
Salak A
(2008)
Bismuth-induced dielectric relaxation in the (1-x)La(Mg1/2Ti1/2)O3-xBi(Mg1/2Ti1/2)O3 perovskite system
in Journal of Applied Physics
Pullar R
(2009)
Dielectric loss caused by oxygen vacancies in titania ceramics
in Journal of the European Ceramic Society
Lorite I
(2012)
Microwave Dielectric Ceramics Prepared by Hot Pressing and Spark Plasma Sintering
in J Amer Ceram Soc
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
Levin I
(2010)
Reorientation of magnetic dipoles at the antiferroelectric-paraelectric phase transition of Bi 1 - x Nd x FeO 3 ( 0.15 = x = 0.25 )
in Physical Review B