PhD in Materials and Engineering Science: Processing of Smart Porous Electro-Ceramic Transducers
Ferroelectrics are an important class of electro-active materials. Their piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties make them vital materials for SONAR, pressure sensors/ accelerometers, energy harvesting, thermal imaging/sensing, and non-destructive evaluation. Porosity in ferroelectric materials is often viewed as a defect. This PhD will demonstrate that porosity can be used pos...
PhD: DESIGN OF SMART MAGNETIC CERAMIC INK FOR 3D PRINTING
Deadline for application May 29, 2020, 2 pm, CET
Magnetic ceramics have been attracting considerable interest due to their wide range of applications. These span the whole field of magnetic screening, magnetic data storage, chokes, sensors and devices based on magnetoelectric coupling in multiferroic materials. Demand from the electronic industry for thick and thin film magnetic ceramics has dramatically increased, and novel de...
Master internship 5 months between February 2020 and July 2020 on modeling of the functional properties of ceramics with core-shell structure.
Ceramics with core-shell structure have been in development in the past years for very diverse applications because they allow to obtain combinations of properties that can not be obtained with conventional ceramics. We will first look at dielectric materials whose core is of CCTO composition (whose colossal permittivity has been demonstrated) and the shell consisting of one or m...
PhD : Solid State Growth of Piezoelectric Single Crystals
Piezoelectric materials are at the heart of a £20bn p.a. industry in sensors and actuators, providing the functional heart of devices such as ultrasound medical imaging transducers, naval sonar and automotive fuel injection systems. This 4 year PhD project, funded by EPSRC with additional support from industrial collaborator Thales UK Ltd, is aimed at defining new methods f...
PhD Thesis proposal: Lead free piezoelectric : exploration of the NaNbO3-KNbO3 system
This PhD thesis aims at exploring the NaNbO3 -KNbO3 phase diagram in thin films, through the development of mutli-target magnetron co-sputtering process followed by systematic characterizations of the chemical, structural and physical properties of thin films. A comparative study with bulk ceramics on compositions of interest is also planned.
