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2016 Spring Meeting in Kyoto Japan – A Great Success

Spring 2016 Meeting

The Spring Conference for the CDP held in Kyoto Japan on June 16-17, 2016 was a very successful event.  The day and a half meeting, poster session, Buessem Award banquet and tutorial was attended by 16 member companies sending 46 … [Read more...]

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CDP Fall 2015 Meeting

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CDP reports it had a successful fall meeting on October 26-27, 2015, at the Raleigh Sheraton Downtown in Raleigh, North Carolina.   The meeting was attended by 92 industry members and guests along with faculty from North Carolina State University, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Sheffield England and Jozef Stefan Institute in … [Read more...]

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Newly Founded Center on NCSU Campus Collaborating with Duke University and University of NC Chapel Hill

Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network logo

What is RTNN? It is a: - A collaboration between NC State University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. - An interdisciplinary innovation hub for transformative nanotechnology research, fabrication, commercialization, and education. - A portal to Research Triangle resources, including both physical and … [Read more...]

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CDP Researchers Create First Entropy-Stabilized Complex Oxide Alloys

Researchers from North Carolina State University and Duke University have created the first entropy-stabilized alloy that incorporates oxides – and demonstrated conclusively that the crystalline structure of the material can be determined by disorder at the atomic scale rather than chemical bonding. [Read more...]

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CDP Researchers Measure How Specific Atoms Move in Dielectric Materials

Researchers have measured how the atoms within electrically insulating solids reorient due to an applied electric field. Shown here for Na1/2Bi1/2TiO3, bismuth ions (purple) align along the electric field direction relative to their … [Read more...]

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US-Japan Seminar on Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics – Matsumoto, Japan – November 15-18, 2015

The Seventeenth (17th) US-Japan Seminar on Dielectric and Piezoelectric Ceramics will be held from November 15 to 18, 2015 at the Hotel Buena Vista, Matsumoto, Japan. Invited participants include leading US and Japanese university and … [Read more...]

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CDP Develops New in situ XRD Capabilities

Picture of PANalytical Empyrean

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that enables the acquisition of diffraction data during the application of electric fields using a lab X-ray diffractometer.  To read more about this exciting new … [Read more...]

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New NSF Dielectrics Center Ties Research Efforts to Product Development

If you want to do research that solves problems facing global industries, it helps to form partnerships with the industries you want to help. That’s the idea behind the National Science Foundation’s new Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics, … [Read more...]

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