Advances and Applications in Electroceramics

This book contains 26 papers from the Magnetoelectric Multiferroic Thin Films and Multilayers; Dielectric Ceramic Materials and Electronic Devices; Recent Developments in High-Temperature Superconductivity; and Multifunctional Oxides symposia held during the 2010 Materials Science and Technology (MS&T'10) meeting, October 17-21, 2010, Houston, Texas. Topics include: Properties; Structures; Synthesis; Characterization; Device Applications; Multiferroics and Magnetoelectrics; YBCO Pinning Methods and Properties; YBCO Processing and Reliability Related Issues; New Superconductors and MgB2.

Table of Contents:
Preface ix DIELECTRIC MATERIALS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES. Numerical Simulations of a Back Grinding Process for Silicon Wafers 3 A. H. Abdelnaby, G. P. Potirniche, F. Barlow, B. Poulsen, A. Elshabini, R. Parker, and T. Jiang Sol-Gel Processing of Single Phase BiFeO3 Ceramics: A Structural, Microstructural, Dielectric, and Ferroelectric Study 13 L. F. Cótica, P. V. Sochodolak, V. F. Freitas, I. A. Santos, D. Garcia, and J. A. Eiras Electro Ceramic Properties of Porous Silicon Thin Films on P-Type Crystalline Silicon 19 Faruk Fonthal Tape Cast Dielectric Composites Produced with Camphene as a Freezing Medium 25 E. P. Gorzkowski, M.-J. Pan, and B. A. Bender Electronic Transfer between Low-Dimensional Nanosystems 33 Karel Krai Combined Dilatometer-Mass Spectrometer Analysis of the Sintering of Barium Titanate 41 Murray A. Moss and Stephen J. Lombardo Effect of DC Poling Field on Ferroelectric Properties in Alkali Bismuth Titanate Lead-Free Ceramics 49 Toshio Ogawa, Takayuki Nishina, Masahito Furukawa, and Takeo Tsukada Multifunctional Nature of Modified Iron Titanates and Their Potential Applications 61 R. K. Pandey, P. Padmini, P. Kale, J. Dou, C. Lohn, R. Schad, R. Wilkins, and W. Geerts Long-Term Convergence of Bulk- and Nano-Crystal Properties 77 Sergei L. Pyshkin and John M. Ballato Influence of Magnetic Flux Density and Sintering Process on the Oriented Structure of C-Axis-Oriented Sr2NaNb5O15 Piezoelectric Ceramics 91 Satoshi Tanaka, Takuma Takahashi, Tomoko Kawase, Ryoichi Furushima, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Yutaka Doshida, and Keizo Uematsu Sintering of Defect-Free BaTi0.975Sn0.025O3/BaTi0.85Sn0.15O3 Functionally Graded Materials 97 S. Markovicand D. Uskokovic Applications of High-Throughput Screening Tools for Thermoelectric Materials 107 W. Wong-Ng, H. Joress, J. Martin, Y. Yan, J. Yang, M. Otani, E. L. Thomas, M. L. Green, and J. Hattrick-Simpers DEVELOPMENTS IN HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS Altering Self-Assembly of Second Phase Additions in YBa2Cu3O7-x for Pinning Enhancement 119 Francisco J. Baca, Paul N. Barnes, Timothy J. Haugan, Jack L. Burke, C. V. Varanasi, Rose L. Emergo, and Judy Z. Wu Electrical Properties of Hg0.8TI0.2Ba2Can-1CunO2n+2delta for (n=1-5) HTSC System 129 Ghazala Y. Hermiz and Ebtisam Kh AL-Beyaty Electrodeposited Ag-Stabilization Layer for High Temperature Superconducting Coated Conductors 137 Raghu N. Bhattacharya, Jonathan Mann, Yunfei Qiao, Yue Zhang, and Venkat Selvamanickam The Combined Influence of SiC and Rare-Earth Oxides Doping on Superconducting Properties of MgB2 Wires 145 Hui Fang, Brenden Wiggins, and Gan Liang Fabrication of GdBCO Coated Conductors on Gad-Type Textured Metal Substrates for HTS Cables 155 Kazuya Ohmatsu, Kenji Abiru, Yoshihiro Honda, Yuki Shingai, and Masaya Konishi Characteristics of Superconducting YBCO Phase Formation through Auto Combustion Citrate-Nitrate Sol-Gel 163 Hassan Sheikh, Ebrahim Paimozd, AN Sharbati, and Sedigheh Sheikh Chemical Interactions of the Ba2YCu3O6+x Superconductor with Coated Conductor Buffer Layers 173 W. Wong-Ng, Z. Yang, G. Liu, Q. Huang, L. P. Cook, S. Diwanji, C. Lucas, M-H. Jang, and J. A. Kaduk Chemical Tailoring of Electronic Doping in Y1-xGdxBa1.9Sr0.1Cu3O7-delta High Tc Superconductors 187 M. M. Abbas, M. N. Makadsi, and E.K. Al-Shakarchi Processing-Property Relations for Y1-xGdxBa2Cu3O7-delta High Tc Superconductors 195 Matti N. Makadsi, Emad K. Al-Shakarchi, and Muña M. Abbas MAGNETOELECTRIC MULTIFERROICS. Finite-Size Effects in Nanoscaled Multiferroics 211 J. J. Heremans, J. Zhong, R. Varghese, G. T. Yee, and S. Priya Functionally Graded Piezomagnetic and Piezoelectric Bilayers for Magnetic Field Sensors: Magnetoelectric Interactions at Low-Frequencies and at Bending Modes 223 S. K. Mandal, G. Sreenivasulu, V. M. Petrov, S. Bandekar, and G. Srinivasan Magnetic and Electrical Properties of 0.7Bi0 95Dy0 05FeO3-0.3Pb(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3 Multiferroic 231 Agata Stoch, Jan Kulawik, Pawel Stoch, Jan Maurin, Piotr Zachariasz, and Piotr Zielinski Multiferroic Nanofilm with Bilayer of Pb(Zr0 52Ti0 48)03 and CoFe204 Prepared by Electrophoretic Deposition 241 Dongxiang Zhou, Yanan Zheng, Gang Jian, and Fei Shi MULTIFUNCTIONAL OXIDES Synthesis and Characterization of Ternary Cobalt Spinel Oxides for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting to Produce Hydrogen 251 Sudhakar Shet, Yanfa Yan, Todd Deutsch, Heli Wang, Nuggehalli Ravindra, John Turner, and Mowafak Al-Jassim Author Index 259