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...]
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...]
CDP Develops New in situ XRD Capabilities
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...]
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...]
Professor Dickey Represents MSE, NCSU at Exhibit for the U.S. Congress
On May 7, 2014, the 20th National Exhibition for the Coalition for National Science Funding was held in Washington, D.C. Professor Elizabeth Dickey, Director of the Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics, represented both Materials Science & Engineering and NC State University at the event. The coalition consists of over 135 organizations, … [Read more...]
CDP Hosts Panel Discussion on EU Restriction of Hazardous Substances
Jan Peters of Applied Piezo in the Netherlands (http://www.applied-piezo.com/) gave an overview talk on the history of the European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directives and implications for piezoelectrics. Then an open panel, including Professor Susan Trolier … [Read more...]