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  • Jennifer Ray Sloppy (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering), "Anodization Mechanism and Properties of Bi-Layer Tantalum Oxide Formed in Phosphoric Acid" (2009)
  • Patamas Bintachitt (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering), "Local Origin of Macroscopic Properties and Patterning in PbZr1-xTixO3 Films" (2009)
  • Wei-En (Wayne) Liu (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering), "Impedance/Thermally Stimulated Depolarization Current and Microstructural Relations at Interfaces in Degraded Perovskite Dielectrics" (2009)
  • James N. Reck (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Missouri Univ. of Science & Technology), "Thin Film Techniques for the Fabrication of Nano-Scale High Energy Density Capacitors" (2008)
  • Hideki Ogihara (M.S., Materials Science and Engineering), "Structure-Property-Compositional Relationships in the BaTiO3-BiScO3 Ceramic System" (2008)
  • Kumar Krishnamurthy (M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia), "Supercritical Extraction of Binder from Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors" (2008)
  • Ying Yuan (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering), "Metal Nanoplatelet Synthesis and Dispersion in Suspension: Silver, Copper, Nickel and Related Alloys" (2007)
  • Seung Ho Park (Ph.D., Materials), "Integration of a Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Motor into a Low Temperature Cofired Ceramic Package for Active Optical Fiber Alignment" (2007)
  • Craig J. Stringer (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering), "Structure-Property-Performance Relationships of New High Temperature Relaxors for Capacitor Applications" (2006)
  • Daniel S. Tinberg (M.S., Materials Science and Engineering), "Pulsed Laser Deposition of xBiScO3-(1-x)BaTiO3 Thin Films for Lead Free Dielectric Applications" (2006)
  • Soon il Lee (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering), "Defect-Phase Equilibrium and Ferroelectric Phase Transition Behavior in Non-Stoichiometric BaTiO3 Under Various Equilibrium Conditions" (2006)
  • Taehee Jeong (M.S., Materials Science and Engineering), "Alloying and Interfacial Reactions and the Effects on Electrode Continuity and Dielectric Properties in NiBaTiO3 Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors" (2006)
  • Lynell Joy Gilbert (Ph.D., Chemistry, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla), "Low Filler Volume Concentration Composite Dielectrics" (2006)
  • Ricky Lance Haney (M.S., Engineering Science), "Microwave Characterization of Oxide Thin FIlms (2006)
  • Do-Kyun Kwon (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering), "Ultra-Low Temperature Processing of Barium Tellurate Dielectrics" (2006)
  • Abhishek Manohar (M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla), "Dielectric Properties of Suspensions and Particles" (2005)
  • Kristen M. Breece (M.S., Materials Science and Engineering), "Processing and Characterization of Local Stoichiometry in Pressureless Sintered Bulk Nanocrystalline BaTiO3" (2005)
  • William Janosik (M.S., Materials Science and Engineering), "Glass Synthesis and Selection for Sintering High Performance Dielectrics" (2005)
  • Aravind Mohanram (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering), "Co-Sintering of Integrated Ceramics: Fundamentals, Observations, and Design Guidelines" (2005)
  • Mustafa Burak Telli (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering), "Chemical Solution Deposition of Silver Tantalate Niobate, Ag(TaxNb1-x)O3, Thin Films" (2005)
  • Chunhong Zhou (M.S., Ceramic Engineering, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla), "Development and Modeling of Antiferroelectric Ceramics for Energy Storage Applications" (2004)
  • Christopher J. Szepesi (M.S., Materials Science and Engineering), "Synthesis and Processing of Sub-Micron Barium Titanyl Oxalate Tetrahydrate" (2004)
  • Takaki Murata (M.S., Materials Science and Engineering), "Fundamental Aspects of Microstrip Resonators and Their Tunability" (2004)
  • Jonathan Van Tassel (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering), "Electrophoretic Deposition: Fundamentals, Mechanisms and Examples with an In Depth Examination of Ion Depletion Effect" (2004)
  • Yang Ye (M.S., Ceramic Engineering, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla), "Grain Size Dependence of the Dielectric Breakdown Strength of Titanium Dioxide Dielectrics" (2003)
  • Steven De Blasio (M.S., Materials Science and Engineering), "A Novel Method to Determine Apparent Activation Energies from the Debinding of Ceramic-Polymer Composites" (2003)
  • Metin Ozgul (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering), "Polarization Switching and Fatigue Anisotropy in Relaxor-Lead Titanate Ferroelectric Single Crystals" (2003)
  • Richard Eitel (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering), "Novel Piezoelectric Ceramics: Development of High Temperature, High Performance Piezoelectrics on the Basis of Structure" (2003)
  • Seyit O. Ural (M.S., Materials Science and Engineering), "Aggregate Breakdown and Aqueous Processing of Zinc Oxide Varistors" (2003)
  • Richard O. Stroman (M.S., Mechanical Engineering), "A Study of Capacitors for Damping Inverter Generated Ripple Currents on the Direct Current Bus: Experiment and Modeling" (2002)
  • Lisa F. Edge (M.S., Materials Science and Engineering), "Pulsed Laser Deposition of Bismuth Zinc Niobate Thin Films for Dielectric Applications" (2002)
  • Juan Nino (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering), "Fundamental Structure-Property Relationships Towards Engineering of an Integrated NPO Capacitor for Bismuth Pyrochlore Systems" (2002)
  • Charles J. Kraisinger (Ph.D, Materials Science and Engineering), "Engineering and Characterization of Dopant Effects in Advanced Multiphase Electroceramics" (2001)
  • Doruk Yener (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering), "Synthesis of Nanosized Metal Platelets" (2001)
  • Michael Biegalski (M.S., Materials Science and Engineering), "Optical Characterization of Reliability in Capacitor Materials" (2001)
  • Elena Semouchkina (Ph.D., Materials), "FDTD Analysis of Microwave Resonant Structures with Dielectric Substrates" (2001)
  • Hanxing Yu (M.S., Materials Science and Engineering), "Dendritic Domain Studies in Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 Single Crystals (2001)
  • Michael M. Mandanas (Ph.D., Materials), "Colloidal Approach to Dispersion and Enhanced Deaggregation of Aqueous Ferrite Suspensions: (2001)
  • Eric Twiname (M.S., Materials Science and Engineering), "Inductor Materials in Low Temperature Cofired Ceramic Packaging. 'Inductors in Integral Substrates'" (2000)
  • Paul W. Rehrig (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering), "Templated Grain Growth of BaTiO3-based Perovskite Single Crystals" (1999)
  • John-Paul P. Kucera (M.S., Ceramic Science), "Processing Strategies and Analysis of Fine-Grain PZT-5H, PZT-5A, and Modified PbTiO3 Piezoelectric Systems" (1998)
  • Murali Lakshman (M.S., Materials), "Rate Controlled Binder Burnout" (1998)
  • Xian Liu (M.S., Materials), "Structure-Property Relationships in Submicron X7R Dielectric Materials" (1998)
  • George A. Risch (M.S., Materials), "Sinter-forging of Fine-grained Barium Titanate" (1997)
  • David P. Cann (Ph.D., Materials), "Thermochemical Interactions at Electrode Interfaces in Electroceramics Applications" (1997)
  • Kamau wa Gachigi (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Electrical Energy Storage in Antiferroelectric-Ferroelectric Phase Switching, Chemically Modified Lead Zirconate Ceramics" (1997)
  • Francis Toal (M.S., Materials), "Processing and Electrical Characterization of a Varistor/Capacitor Co-Fired Multilayer Device" (1996)
  • Daniel E. McCauley (M.S., Materials Science and Engineering), "Structure-Property Relations in BaTiO3-Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 Based Glass-Ceramics" (1996)
  • Christopher Bowen (Ph.D., Materials), "A Study of Dielectrophoresis as a Means to Assemble Ceramic-Polymer Composite Materials" (1996)
  • Wesley Hackenberger (Ph.D., Materials), "Reduction of Sintering Damage and Differential Densification in a Low Temperature Cofired Electronic Substrate Using Rate Controlled Sintering" (1995)
  • Dongmei Cao (M.S., Materials), "Modeling of Dielectric Microwave Filters and Resonators" (1995)
  • Brian J. Roberts (M.S., Materials), "Reliability of Thin Dielectric Layer Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors" (1995)
  • Mark P. McNeal (M.S., Solid State Science), "Dielectrics for High Temperature Capacitors" (1994)
  • Kamau wa Gachigi (M.S., Solid State Science), "Grain Size and Density Effects on the Dielectric Properties of BaTiO3" (1993)
  • John P. Witham (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Hydrothermal Preparation and Fabrication of Lead Zirconate-Titanate (PZT) Ceramics" (1993)
  • Hector Fiallo (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Multilayer Metal-Semiconductor-Relaxor Microstrip Line Low-Pass Filters for Communication and Wireless Electronic Applications: Design, Materials Selection, and Characterization" (1993)
  • David P. Cann (M.S., Materials), "Bismuth Pyrochlores for High Frequency Dielectric Applications" (1993)
  • Fred Jones (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Microwave Properties of Ferroelectric/Polymer Composites" (1993)
  • Ming Xu (M.S., Solid State Science), "Microstrip Losses at Microwave Frequencies" (1992)
  • David Sample (M.S., Ceramic Science), "The Effects of Glass Additions on the Firing of Copper Thick Films" (1992)
  • Geeta Desai (M.S., Electrical Engineering), "Loss Properties of Powdered Iron Cores" (1992)
  • Gerald Rutsch (M.S., Electrical Engineering), "Electrochemical Synthesis of Barium Titanate Thin Films for Capacitor Applications" (1992)
  • Sea-Fue Wang (Ph.D., Ceramic Science), "Interaction of Silver/Palladium Electrode Systems with Flux-Sintered Barium Titanate Dielectrics" (1991)
  • Hector Fiallo (M.S., Solid State Science), "Multilayer Ferrite Dielectric One GHz Low-Pass Filters" (1991)
  • Stephen Costantino (Ph.D., Materials), "Sintering Phenomena of Lead Magnesium Niobate" (1991)
  • Maureen Mulvihill (M.S., Solid State Science), "Low Dielectric Constant Planarization Coatings for Microelectronic Packaging" (1991)
  • Yan Chen (M.S., Electrical Engineering), "Characterization of Substrate Materials with Low Dielectric Constant" (1991)
  • Norman Sand (M.S., Solid State Science), "Partially Sintered, Tape Cast Calcium Aluminate with Controlled Porosity" (1991)
  • Mike Duggan (M.S., Ceramic Science), "Fabrication and Properties of Low Permittivity Silica Fiber Reinforced Silica Substrates" (1991)
  • David Reed (M.S., Solid State Science), "Silica-Polyimide Composites for Microelectronic Packaging" (1991)
  • Girish Harshe (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Magnetoelectric Effect in Piezoelectric-Magnetostrictive Composites" (1991)
  • Mohammed Megherhi (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Interaction Studies of Lead Magnesium Niobate-Based Capacitor Materials with Integrated Ceramic Packaging" (1991)
  • Deborah Smith (M.S., Solid State Science), "Ultraviolet Curable System for Ceramic Tape Casting" (1990)
  • Ben Utech (M.S., Solid State Science), "The Effect of Solution Chemistry on Barium Titanate Ceramics" (1990)
  • Robert Sutterlin (M.S., Solid State Science), "Thick Film Resistor Interactions in Integrated Ceramic Packaging" (1990)
  • David Pickrell (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Diamond Films" (1990)
  • Candace Sullivan (M.S., Solid State Science), "The Use of Synthetic Organic Templates in the Preparation of Tailored Ceramic Microstructures" (1989)
  • Craig Nies (Ph.D., Ceramic Science), "Compatability Studies of Zinc Oxide Varistor Materials with Integrated Ceramic Packaging Technology" (1989)
  • Carol Haertling (M.S., Solid State Science), "Patterned Ceramics for Multilayer Packaging Using Ultraviolet Curable Pastes" (1989)
  • Miriam Leffler (M.S., Solid State Science), "A Study of Positional Disorder in Strontium Barium Niobate" (1989)
  • Mohammed Megherhi (M.S., Ceramic Science), "The Effect of Additives, Microstructure, and Macrostructure on the Fracture Behavior of Lead Magnesium Niobate-Based Ceramic Actuators" (1988)
  • Dean Anderson (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Electrical Resistance Degradation in Barium Titanate Dielectrics" (1988)
  • William Carlson (Ph.D., Engineering Science and Mechanics), "Numerical Analysis of Electrostrictive Ceramic Devices" (1987)
  • David Pickrell (M.S., Solid State Science), "Aluminum Nitride Substrates Prepared by Arc Plasma Spraying" (1987)
  • Eugene Furman (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Dielectric Breakdown and Related Properties of Lead Lanthanum Zirconate Titanate 9.5/65/35" (1987)
  • Philip Gilmour (M.S., Solid State Science, "The Role of Manganese on the Resistivity and Stoichiometry of a Lead-Iron-Niobate Ceramic" (1987)
  • Michael Lanagan (Ph.D., Ceramic Science), "Microwave Dielectric Properties of Antiferroelectric Lead Zirconate" (1987)
  • Prasanta Ghosh (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Dielectric Thin Films" (1986)
  • David Christopher (M.S., Solid State Science), "Milling Studies of ZrO2" (pending defense)
  • B.V. Hiremath (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Fabrication and Characterization of Multilayer Barrier Layer Capacitors" (1986)
  • Frank P. Skeele (M.S., Ceramic Science), "An Investigation using Barium Metaplumbate as a Ceramic Electrode for Ceramic Capacitors" (1985)
  • Wendy Bahn (M.S., Ceramic Science), "Electrical Breakdown of Ceramic Capacitors Containing Macrodefects" (1985)
  • Daniel Kester (M.S., Physics), "Negative Ion Resputtering Effects in Perovskite and Related Thin Films" (1984)
  • Michael Kassarjian (M.S., Ceramic Science), "Processing of Lead-Iron-Niobate Ceramic Compositions" (1984)