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Research and education at our laboratory are centered on science and technology of functional ceramics. We focus on piezoelectrics and ferroelectrics, polar materials, paraelectrics, high-K dielectrics, ferromagnetics, and ferroelastics. We are interested in fundamental mechanisms, theory and modeling, processing and fabrication of thin films and bulk ceramics, structural and functional properties, device design, fabrication and testing of functional ceramics.
We identify and aim to clarify fundamental questions that are potential drivers of novel electroceramic-technology and its applications in areas relevant to society needs. 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.
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LC Seminars
28.8.2015 (Friday, 09:30, MXG110) Prof. Andrew Rappe (University of Pennsylvania), Ferroelectrics from first principles (selected topics)
4.9.2015 (Friday, 10:30, MXG110) Prof. Manfred Fiebig (ETHZ), Monitoring the manipulation of multiferroic domains by nonlinear optics
9.9.2015 (Wednesday, 16:15, MXG312) Dr. Nick Barret (CEA-Saclay), Full field electron spectromicroscopy of ferroelectric materials
18.9.2015 (Friday, 08:45, MXG110) Prof. Kyle Brinkman (Clemson University), Crystalline Ceramics for Nuclear Waste Immobilization and Membrane Separations
13.10.2015 (Tuesday, 16:15, ELE111) Dr. Yohachi (John) Yamashita (Toyama Prefectural University), Can we find promising piezoelectric materials and applications after 2020?
16.10.2015 (Friday, 08:45, MXG110) Robin Nigon, Influence of Asymmetric Electrodes on the Switching of PZT Thin Films
13.11.2015 (Friday, 08:45, MXG110) Anand Chandrasekaran, Atomistic structure of domain walls and their interaction with defects
27.11.2015 (Friday, 08:45, MXG110) Konstantin Shapovalov, Mechanically incompatible ferroelastic domain walls in thin films
9.12.2015 (Wednesday, 11:00, MXG312) Prof. Tomoaki Yamada, (University of Nagoya), One-dimensional Ferroelectric Nanostructure: Attempt at the Self-assembled Growth and Manipulation of the Domain Structure
13-15.12.2015 (Sunday-Tuesday) Leysin Workshop