Electroceramics
Members of Staff
Electroceramics represent a multi-billion pound industry worldwide providing important components for consumer electronics, mobile communications, control systems and sensors for automobiles and aeroplanes, and protection devices for a wide range of power and electronic systems. Control of the microstructure at scales from the grain to the grain boundary to individual point defects is vitally important if the electroceramics are to yield optimum performance. Projects in the School of Materials address novel processing routes, and the development of techniques to characterise the microstructure and electrical properties of a range of electroceramics. There are four primary themes:
- Interface Controlled ceramics
- Microwave Dielectrics and Multifunctional Ceramics
- Piezoelectric ceramics
- Magnetic ceramics
PhD Students
- N Ali - Factors controlling local properties in ZnO based varistors
- M Zubair - Physics of PTC Thermistors
- Michael Thrall – Multifunctional Ceramics
- GA Ravi – CaTiO3 – LaAlO3 Based Microwave Dielectric Ceramics
- Wenjin Wang – La2/3TiO3-based Microwave Dielectric Ceramic Materials
- Zhao Zhang – Lead free piezoelectric ceramics
- Katrin Benkert – Lead zirconium titanate multilayer piezoelectric ceramics