Asian Ceramic Science for Electronics III and Electroceramics in Japan XII

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: Researchers and engineers attended the joint conference to share findings and thoughts on scientific and commercial aspects of ceramics in electronics, and some 150 of their papers are contained in these proceedings. They main themes are dielectrics, piezoelectrics, ferroelectrics, semiconductors, magnetic ceramics, thin films, batteries and cells, memory devices, and optical devices. Among specific topics are domain wall engineering in lead-free piezoelectric materials, fabricating dielectric/conductive hybrid artificial superlattices using the molecular beam epitaxy method, zinc self-diffusion in isotopic heterostructures zinc oxide thin films, electrical properties of conductive paste with silver nanoparticles and its application to flexible substrates, piezoelectric ceramics for high-temperature applications, the mixed conduction of proton and electron in tungsten phosphate glass and its hydrogen transport, and thermophysical behavior in crystalline halides with temperature.