Recent CDS Final Project Reports:

"There are a number of research themes and projects within the CDS that are having an impact on our work here at Murata. These include the modeling and characterization approaches that are being used to address reliability in base metal capacitors. We are also impressed by materials that can fire less than 600°C; for example, the Penn State work on the barium tellurate oxides that could be cofired with alumina. We are also interested in the high power capacitors that have potential for future hybrid electric cars." Yukio Sakabe, Murata Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Published Final Reports:

CDS Theses List:

• Ying Yuan (PhD., Materials Science and Engineering), "Metal Nanoplatelet Synthesis and Dispersion in Suspension: Silver, Copper, Nickel, and Related Alloys" (2007)
  
  
• Craig J. Stringer (PhD., 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 (PhD., 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 (PhD., Chemistry), "Low Filler Volume Concentration Composite Dielectrics" (2006)
  
  
• Do-Kyun Kwon (PhD., Materials Science and Engineering), "Ultra-Low Temperature Processing of Barium Tellurate Dielectrics" (2006)
  
  
• 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 for Sintering High Performance Dielectrics" (2005)
  
  
• Mustafa Burak Telli (PhD., Materials Science and Engineering), "Chemical Solution Deposition of Silver Tantalate Niobate, Ag(Ta_xNb_1-x)O₃, Thin Films" (2005)
  
  
• Aravind Mohanram (PhD., Materials Science and Engineering), "Co-Sintering of Integrated Ceramics" (2005)
  
  
• 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, UMR), "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 & Engineering), "Pulsed Laser Deposition of Bismuth Zinc Niobate Thin Films for Dielectric Applications" (2002)
  
  
• Juan Nino (Ph.D, Materials Science & Engineering), "Fundamental Structure-Property Relationships Towards Engineering of an Integrated NPO Capacitor for Bismuth Pyrochlore Systems" (2002)
  
  
• Doruk Yener (Ph.D, Materials Science & Engineering), "Synthesis of Nanosized Metal Platelets" (2001)
  
  
• Michael Biegalski (M.S, Materials Science & Engineering), "Optical Characterization of Reliability in Capacitor Materials" (2001)
  
  
• Elena Semouchkina (Ph.D, Materials), "FDTD Analysis of Microwave Resonant Structures with Dielectric Substrates" (2001)
  
  
• Eric Twiname (M.S., Materials Science & Engineering), "Inductor Materials in Low Temperature Cofired Ceramic Packaging. 'Inductors in Integral Substrates' " (2000)
  
  
• Murali Lakshman (M.S., Materials), "Rate Controlled Binder Burnout" (1998)
  
  
• Xian Liu (M.S., Materials), "Structure-Property Relationships in Submicron X7R Dielectric Materials" (1998)
  
  
• David P. Cann (Ph.D., Materials), "Thermochemical Interactions at Electrode Interfaces in Electroceramics Applications" (1997)
  
  
• Francis Toal (M.S., Materials), "Processing and Electrical Characterization of a Varistor/Capacitor Co-Fired Multilayer Device" (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)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Gerald Rutsch (M.S., Electrical Engineering), "Electrochemical Synthesis of Barium Titanate Thin Films for Capacitor Applications" (1992)
  
  
• Geeta Desai (M.S., Electrical Engineering), "Loss Properties of Powdered Iron Cores" (1992)
  
  
• Maureen Mulvihill (M.S., Solid State Science), "Low Dielectric Constant Planarization Coatings for Microelectronic Packaging" (1991)
  
  
• Mohammed Megherhi (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Interaction Studies of Lead Magnesium Niobate-Based Capacitor Materials with Integrated Ceramic Packaging" (1991)
  
  
• Girish Harshe (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Magnetoelectric Effect in Piezoelectric-Magnetostrictive Composites" (1991)
  
  
• Hector Fiallo (M.S., Solid State Science), "Multilayer Ferrite Dielectric One GHz Low-Pass Filters" (1991)
  
  
• David Reed (M.S., Solid State Science), "Silica-Polyimide Composites for Microelectronic Packaging Applications" (1991)
  
  
• Mike Duggan (M.S., Ceramic Science), "Fabrication and Properties of Low Permittivity Silica Fiber Reinforced Silica Substrates" (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)
  
  
• Sea-Fue Wang (Ph.D., Ceramic Science), "Buried PTC/Dielectric Interaction" (1991)
  
  
• Stephen Costantino (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Firing Studies of Pb-Based Dielectrics" (1991)
  
  
• Deborah Smith (M.S., Solid State Science), "Ultraviolet Curable System for Ceramic Tape Casting" (1990)
  
  
• Ben Utech (M.S., Solid State Science), "Surface Chemistry of BaTiO₃ in H₂O" (1990)
  
  
• Robert Sutterlin (M.S., Solid State Science), "Buried Resistor/Dielectric Interaction" (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), "Buried Varistors/Dielectric Interaction" (1989)
  
  
• Carol Haertling (M.S., Solid State Science), "UV Curing Films" (1989)
  
  
• Miriam Leffler (M.S., Solid State Science), "A Study of Positional Disorder in Strontium Barium Niobate" (1989)
  
  
• Mohammed Megherhi (M.S., Solid State Science), "Fracture of PMN" (1988)
  
  
• Dean Anderson (Ph.D., Solid State Science) "Degradation of BaTiO₃" (1988)
  
  
• David Pickrell (M.S., Solid State Science), "Plasma Sprayed AlN" (1987)
  
  
• Philip Gilmour (M.S., Solid State Science), "Mn-Doping of PFN-PFW-PZN" (1987)
  
  
• Michael Lanagan (Ph.D., Ceramic Science), "Microwave Dielectric Properties of Antiferroelectric Lead Zirconate" (1987)
  
  
• Eugene Furman (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Dielectric Breakdown of PLZT" (1987)
  
  
• William Carlson ( Ph.D., Electrical Engineering), "Numerical Analysis of Multilayers" (1987)
  
  
• Prasanta Ghosh (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Dielectric Thin Films by CVD" (1986)
  
  
• David Christopher (M.S., Solid State Science), "Milling Studies of ZrO₂" (pending defense)
  
  
• B.V. Hiremath (Ph.D., Solid State Science), "Multilayer Barrier Layer Capacitor" (1986)
  
  
• Frank Skeele (Ph.D., Ceramic Science), "Barium Metaplumbate Ceramic Electrode for MLCs" (1986)
  
  
• Wendy Bahn (M.S., Solid State Science), "Electric Breakdown of Defects in Capacitors" (1985)
  
  
• Daniel Kester (M.S., Physics), "Negative Ion Resputtering in Dielectric Thin Films" (1984)
  
  
• Michael Kassarjian (M.S. , Ceramic Science), "Processing of PFN Ceramics" (1984)
  
  

Patents:

• "Perovskite Materials for High Temperature and High Performance Actuators and Transducers" , U.S. Patent No. 6,685,849, February 3, 2004
  
  
• "Bismuth Pyrochlore Microwave Dielectric Materials" , U.S. Patent No. 6,680,269, January 20, 2004
  
  
• "Sand Development for Base-Metal PZT Actuator Devices" , U.S. Patent No. 60/354,027 (pending)
  
  
• "Perovskite Materials for High Performance Actuators and Transducers" , U.S. Patent No. 09/854,927 (pending)
  
  
• "Cofired Multilayer Piezoelectric Materials with Copper Electrodes" , U.S. Patent No. 09/993,284 (pending)
  
  

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