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...]
Materials Day 2021
The Intersection of Materials, Manufacturing, and Sustainability Tuesday & Wednesday October 12 - 13, 2021 Materials Day is designed to share Penn State’s vast materials research knowledge and infrastructure with our industrial and government research and service partners. The 2021 version of Materials Day will be a hybrid of … [Read more...]
Links to Registration and Hotel Reservations Now Available for the Fall 2019 CDP Meeting!
The Fall CDP Meeting will be held on September 24-26, 2019, at the Nittany Lion Inn, State College, PA. Links to registration and hotel accommodations are as follows: REGISTRATION If you have an invitation email, please register by clicking Yes (or the link) at the bottom of the e-mail. The meeting is private and by invitation … [Read more...]
Veronica Augustyn, CDP Faculty Member Named Sloan Research Fellow
Veronica Augustyn, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at North Carolina State University, has been awarded a 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry. Augustyn’s research focuses on the electrochemistry of materials. This research has important implications regarding how energy is converted and stored in devices such as … [Read more...]