Ceramics Laboratory LC

Welcome to the Ceramics Laboratory

Teaching and research at our laboratory are centered on science and technology of functional ceramics. In the focus are piezoelectrics and ferroelectrics, polar materials, paraelectrics, high-K dielectrics, ferromagnetics, and ferroelastics. Other materials, e.g. ionically conductive ceramics are investigated too. Within the field of functional ceramics, we are interested in fundamental mechanisms, theory and modeling, processing and fabrication, structural and functional properties, device design, fabrication and testing.

We identify and aim to clarify fundamental questions that are potential drivers of novel electroceramic-technology and its applications in areas relevant to our society needs. An example of current interest is the study of the interfaces between the functional ceramic and the other sub-system, e.g. ferroelectric-metals, ferroelectrics-semiconductors, ferroelectrics-ferromagnetics. In another major direction we demonstrate / aim to demonstrate concepts for new applications of electroceramics in fields such as information and communication technologies, medical instrumentation and industrial process monitoring.

Key competences in the lab include processing science and technology of thin ceramic films, structural and functional analysis of electroceramics (experimental research in properties, be it local at the nanometer-scale or macroscopic properties, as well as modeling and theory), micro- and nano-fabrication science and technology of ceramics, and design, fabrication and testing of electroceramic components and microsystems, in particular sensors, actuators, various microelectronic components and high-frequency components.