K. M. Nair

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Preface. Design, Synthesis and Properties. Barium Titanate Stannate Functionally Graded Materials: Choosing of the Ti/Sn Concentration Gradient and the Influence of the Gradient on Electrical Properties (S. Markovic and D. Uskokovic). Barium Titanate and Cobalt Ferrite Nano-Particles Decorated SiCN/MWCNT Nanotubes: Synthesis and Microstructural Characterization (Vishwas Bedekar, Gurpreet Singh, Roop Mahajan, and Shashank Priya). Synthesis, Structural and Electrical Properties of the Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-K0.5Bi0.5TiO3 Ceramic System (Jakob Konig, Mojca Otonicar, Sreco D. Skapin, and Danilo Suvorov). Improvement of Electric Properties of (K,Na)NbO3 and (K,Na)(Nb, Ta)O3 Based Lead-Free Piezoelectrics (Kochi Kukuta, Yoshiki Watanabe, Shun Kondo, Takeshi Asano, Jun Sakai, and Makoto Suzuki). Structural and Electrical Characterization of Lead-Free (1-x)(Na1/2Bi1/2)TiO3-xBaTiO3 Piezoelectric Ceramics (Deepam Maurya, Cheol-Woo Ahn, and Shashank Priya). Temperature Dependences of Piezoelectric Properties of Textured (Bi1/21/2)TiO3-BaTiO3 Lead-Free Piezoelectric Ceramics (Hahime Nagata, Masahiro Menoto, Yuji Hiruma, and Tadashi Takenaka). Structure and Dielectric Properties of Tellurium Oxide-Based Materials (N. Berkaine, J. Cornette, D. Hamani, P. Thomas, O. Masson, A. Mirgorodsky, J. Colas, J.R. Duciere, T. Merle-Mejean, J.-C. Champarnaud-Mesjard, M. Smirnov, V. Couderc, T. Cardinal, and E. Fargin). Dielectric Anisotropy of Ferroelectric Single Crystals in Microwave C-Band by Cavity Vectorial Perturbation Method (Robert McIntosh, Amar Bhalla, and Ruyan Guo). Characterization and Microstructure Evolution in Er-Doped BaTiO3 Ceramics (V. Mitic, V.B. Pavolovic, V. Paunovic, Lj. Kocic, and Lj. Zivkovic.). Improvement of the Dielectric Properties of Tunable (Ba,Sr)TiO3-MgO Composites by Decreasing Heterogeneous Diffusion (Romaine Costs, Michel Pate, and Jean-Pierre Ganne). High Thermal Conductivity A/N Materials (Isabel K. Lloyd). Metal-Encapsulation of Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles (Su-Chul Yang, Cheol-Woo Ahn, Chee-Sung Park, Yaodong Yang, Dwight Viehland, and Shashank Priya). Applications and Devices. Optical and Electrical Single Crystals for UV/VUV Applications (K. Shimamura, E.G. Villora, and N. Ichinose). Microanalyses for Piezoresistive Effect on Actual and Modeled Interfaces of RuO2-Glass Thick Film Resistors (M. Totokawa and T. Tani). Lead-Free Piezoelectric Materials for Sensors, Capacitors, and Actuators (Cheol-Woo Ahn, Deepam Maurya, Alex O. Aning, and Shashank Priya). Processing Issues in Pulse DC Sputtering of Vanadium Oxide This Films for Uncooled Infrared Detectors (S.S.N. Bharadwaja, C. Venkatasubramanyam, N. Fieldhouse, B. Gauntt, Myung Yoon Lee, S. Ashok, E.C. Dickey, T.N. Jackson, and M. Horn). Semiconducting Metal Oxides as Oxygen Sensor (Wei Wu, David W. Greene, and Irving J. Oppenheim). Introduction of Embossed Diaphragm in an Integrated Optical and Electronic Sensor (Ivan Padron, Anthony T. Fiory, and Nuggehalli M. Ravindra). Optical Line Width in Quantum Dots and Nanodevices (Karel Kral and Miroslav Mensik). DuPontTM Green TapeTM 9K7 Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) Low Loss Dielectric System for High Frequency Microwave Applications (K. M. Nair, M. F. McCombs, K. E. Souders, J. M. Parisi, K. H. Hang, D. M. Nair, and S. C. Beers). Polyvinvylidene Fluoride (PVDF) Piezoelectric for Intravascular Monitoring of Blood Pressure and Arterial Blood Flow Rate (Juan P. Tamez, Hsiao-Yuan Wang, Amar Bhalla, and Ruyan Guo). Indirect Template Method of Magnetic Field Assisted Assembly (Rene D. Rivero, Ivan Padron, Michael R. Booty, Anthony T. Fiory, and N.M. Ravindra). Recent Developments in Thermoelectric Metrology at NIST (W. Wong-Ng, J. Martin, E. L. Thomas, M. Otani, N. Lowhorn, M. Green, G. Liu, Y.G. Yan, J. Hattick-Simpers, and T. Tran). Author Index.

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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. Cotica, 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 Muna 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