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Improvements in basic knowledge and practical exploitation of their unique properties, has established electrical ceramics as a central and fast developing sector in materials research, resulting in a significant impact on several areas of modern technologies. The increasing demand for even more refined or novel properties hardly to be competitively met by other materials is fuelling the interest for improved or new processing routes and deeper understanding of the fundamental materials science to meet requirements coming from a variety of advanced civilian and defence applications.
Materials with unusually high dielectric constant, with low loss and low temperature resonance coefficient at very high frequencies, lead-free piezoelectrics, multifunctional materials such as multiferroic heterostructures are but some examples of the ongoing developments in the area which massively makes use of the opportunities offered by nanoscience and nanotechnology, and by computational modelling and new theory.
Major focus will be on:
- Development of new and more efficient processes, better characterisation tools of bulk, crystalline, glassy and amorphous materials, thin films, multilayers, superlattices, nanomaterials, nanostructures and hybrid materials; advances in thin-film and related micro/ nano-fabrication techniques and “bottom-up” approaches that offer the potential for high-density integration of nanoscale devices
- Fundamental mechanisms, novel (multi)functional characteristics and behaviour of materials such as electronic structure, quantum effects, phase transitions, transport phenomena, defects, diffusion, domain structure and switching, grain boundary controlled mechanisms, nanosize effects, surfaces and interfaces, dielectric, piezoelectric, magnetic and optical properties, ageing and fatigue, reliability, fractals, modeling and simulation, etc.
- New developments in devices including high energy density capacitors, tunable dielectrics for microwave applications, piezoelectric composites, sensors and actuators, MEMS/NEMS devices, and related integration technologies.
Session Topics
CJ-1 Dielectrics and microwave materials
- Fundamentals, synthesis, processing, characterisation
- Capacitor dielectrics
- Mott insulators
- Microwave and millimeter wave dielectrics
- Tunable dielectrics
- LTCC
- New thin film materials and integration technologies
- Packaging and interconnect issues
CJ-2 Ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, pyroelectrics
- Synthesis and processing: polycrystalline ceramics and composites, thin/thick films, single crystals, novel materials
- Lead-free ferroelectrics and piezoelectrics
- Relaxor ferroelectrics
- Theory and modelling
- Characterisation
- Electromechanical behaviour and piezoelectric applications
- Thin film devices
- Capacitor applications, MLCC
- Sensor applications
- Novel applications
CJ-3 Multiferroics *
- Theory and modelling of magneto-electric phenomena
- Advances in materials synthesis and processing
- Magneto-electric characterisation
- Dynamics of multiferroics
- New effects
- Devices and applications
CJ-4 Semiconducting ceramics
- Amorphous and crystalline semiconducting oxides
- Non-oxide semiconductors
- Synthesis, processing,characterisation
- Defect chemistry, doping mechanisms, carriers origin and dynamics
- SnO2-, ZnO-,TiO2-based varistors and sensor applications
- NTC/PTC thermistors
- Electrochemical applications (sensors, catalysis)
- Other ongoing applications
- Novel materials and applications
CJ-5 Fast ion-conducting ceramics
- Novel synthesis and materials
- Ionic and mixed ion-electron conduction mechanisms
- Electrochemical characterisation, thermochemical stability
- Mechanical and thermal properties
- Energy conversion and storage applications
- Sensor applications
- Other electrochemical applications for, e.g. gas separation processes at high temperature, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, etc.
Special Session CJ-6
State-of-the-art Development and Application of
Thin Film Piezoelectric MEMS/NEMS
*Joint Session with Symposium CK "Functional Magnetic Oxides"
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