MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Dates for the Spring 2021 meeting have been announced - June 14-16, 2021. While this meeting is currently scheduled to be held at the Sheraton in Raleigh, NC, the CDP will continue to monitor travel restrictions and follow … [Read more...]
Ceramic Tech Chat
Integrating Research for a Greener, Cleaner World: Clive Randall THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY - EPISODE 3 Materials research is about more than technical impact—it’s about having a human impact as well. Director of the Materials Research Institute at The … [Read more...]
5G & BEYOND
The rollout of 5G devices is in its infancy. With the exception of a few square blocks in a few American cities. no one in U.S. is currently using 5G technology. Current 4G technology, the generation that delivers data to your smart phone, took three to five years from … [Read more...]
Cold sintering produces capacitor material at record low temperatures
A team of Penn state scientists who used the cold sintering process to densify barium titanate ceramics at less than 572 degrees Fahrenheit (300 degrees Celsius), the lowest processing temperatures ever used, while maintaining the quality achieved at higher temperatures in modern commercial manufacturing. Read More about this process here: [Read more...]
Professor Trolier-McKinstry Publishes Bulletin on the Impact of Ferroelectricity
Professor Trolier-McKinstry leads focus issue on the history of ferroelectrics in the American Ceramic Society Bulletin. "Ferroelectric materials are ubiquitous in electrical and electromechanical components and systems. Ferroelectricity is associated with large dielectric and piezoelectric coefficients, particularly when the composition is … [Read more...]