Dielectric Ceramics: Structure, Characterization, and Application
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced and Functional Ceramics and Glasses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 6453
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Interests: solid state physics (electrical and magnetic properties of materials); biomaterials; glasses and glass-ceramics
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Interests: oxide glasses and glass-ceramics; impedance spectroscopy; melt-quenching; (micro)structural characterization; structure and transport properties; crystallization; ceramics; biomaterials; dental materials; thin films; charge carrier dynamics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to contribute to the Special Issue “Dielectric Ceramics: Structure, Characterization and Application”. This Special Issue welcomes novel manuscripts dealing with previously unpublished advances in the area of dielectric ceramics.
Dielectric ceramics have become indispensable components in numerous devices due to their multifunctional property and are, at the moment, basic building block of every electronic device. Their physical characteristics, which are dependent on structure, composition, shape, and morphology, allow modelling the dielectric, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, and optical properties. One major advantage of these materials is that they can be manufactured in custom size, shape, and mode of operation. Different types of dielectric ceramics have been used for application in energy storage devices, such as high voltage capacitors, also in the form of a capacitor as a passive element in analogue and digital electronic circuits, as high voltage insulator, substrates for encapsulation of electronic circuits, gas sensors, magnetic tapes, piezoelectric transducers, transformer cores, surge protectors, etc. These materials have occupied a prominent place in a range of industries including the telecommunications sector, in particular in wireless, and are increasingly widespread and used due to particularities, such as relative low power consumption, high performance, and thermal stability. This also allows the minimization of electronic circuits. Due to the non-linear characteristics of these ceramics, there is a great potential for the construction of non-linear transmission lines for the generation of high-frequency waves with direct application in lasers or radars for applications in defense systems, and in space vehicles (satellites) for communications.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to compile the physical principles of dielectric ceramics operation, the advanced preparation processes of these materials in the micro and manometric dimensions, the discussion and analysis of the electrical response as a function of their structural and morphological characteristics, understanding ways of how to model the physical response, and, finally, the presentation of applications of these materials in current systems.
Dr. Manuel Pedro Fernandes Graça
Dr. Luka Pavić
Dr. Mauro Miguel Costa
Guest Editors
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