Advances in Multifunctional Materials and Systems

The symposia Advances in Electroceramics and Microwave Materials and Their Applications were held during the 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology (PACRIM 8) from May 31-June 5, 2009 in Vancouver, Canada. This issue contains 17 peer-reviewed papers (invited and contributed) from these two symposia. The book is logically organized and carefully selected articles give insight into multifunctional materials and systems and incorporates the latest developments related to multifunctional materials and systems including electroceramics and microwave materials.

The symposia Advances in Electroceramics and MicrowaveMaterials and Their Applications were held during the 8thPacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology (PACRIM 8)from May 31-June 5, 2009 in Vancouver, Canada. This issue contains17 peer-reviewed papers (invited and contributed) from these twosymposia. The book is logically organized and carefully selectedarticles give insight into multifunctional materials andsystems and incorporates the latest developments related tomultifunctional materials and systems including electroceramics andmicrowave materials.

Preface.Introduction.ELECTROCERAMICS.Nanostructured Ceramics of Perovskite Morphotropic PhaseBoundary Materials (M. Algueró, H. Amorín, T.Hungría, J. Ricote, R. Jiménez, A. Castro, P. Ramos, J.Galy, J. Holc, and M. Kosec).Transformation of Current Limiting Effect into Varistor Effectin Tin Dioxide Based Ceramics (A. N. Bondarchuk, A. B. Glot, and M.Marquez Miranda).Fabrication of MoSi2-Si-Composite Thin Films forOxidation-Resistant Thin-Film Heaters (Teppei Hayashi, MasashiSato, Yuuki Sato, and Shinzo Yoshikado).Influence of Interface on Tunability in Barium StrontiumTitanate (Naohiro Horiuchi, Takuya Hoshina, Hiroaki Takeda, andTakaaki Tsurumi).Recent Progress in Multilayer Ceramic Devices (HiroshiTakagi).Effect of Mn2O3 Addition on the Microstructure and ElectricalProperties of Lead-Free Ba(Sn0.02Ti0.98)O3-(Na0.5K0.5)NbO3 Ceramics(Chun-Huy Wang).Electronic Properties of BaTiO3 Containing Glass Ceramics (M.Letz, M. Aigner, M.J. Davis, B. Hoppe, M. Kluge, I. Mitra, B.Rüdinger, and D. Seiler).Development of (100) Three-Axis-Oriented Single Crystal(Ba0.7Sr0.3)TiO3 Thin Film Fabrication on Pt/MgO(100) Substrate byChemical Solution Deposition Method (Tadasu Hosokura, KeisukeKageyama, Hiroshi Takagi, and Yukio Sakabe).Influence of Ca Concentration in (Ba,Ca)TiO3 Based Ceramics onthe Reliability of MLCCs with Ni Electrodes (Jun Ikeda, ShoichiroSuzuki, Toshikazu Takeda, Akira Ando, and Hiroshi Takagi).Crystal Structure Dependence of Electrical Properties ofLi0.02(K1-x Nax)0.98NbO3 Ceramics (Eung Soo KimSeock No Seo, Jeong Ho Cho, and Byung Ik Kim).Oxynitrides as New Functional Ceramic Materials (ShinichiKikkawa, Teruki Motohashi, and Yuji Masubuchi).MICROWAVE MATERIALS.Terahertz Wave Harmonization in Geometrically PatternedDielectric Ceramics through Spatially Structural Joining (SoshuKirihara, Toshiki Niki and Masaru Kaneko).Terahertz Wave Properties of Alumina Photonic Crystals (SoshuKirihara, Noritoshi Ohta, Toshiki Niki, and Masaru Kaneko).High Symmetry Brings High Q Instead of Ordering inBa(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3: A HRTEM Study (Hitoshi Ohsato, Feridoon AzoughEiichi Koga, Isao Kagomiya, Ken-ichi Kakimoto, and RobertFreer).Flexible Design of Composite Electromagnetic Wave Absorber Madeof Aluminum and Sendust Particles Dispersed in Polystyrene Resin(Kenji Sakai, Yoichi Wada, Yuuki Sato, and Shinzo Yoshikado).New Perovskite Oxides of the Type (M1/4Ln3/4)(Mg1/4Ti3/4)O3 (M =Na, Li; Ln = La, Nd, Sm): Crystal Structure and MicrowaveDielectric Properties (J. J. Bian, L. L. Yuan, and R. Ubic).Understanding and Improving Insertion Loss and Intermodulationin Microwave Ferrite Devices (David B. Cruickshank).Author Index.