Publications related to Glass-ceramic

How to Make Elastomers Piezoelectric?

Piezoelectrics play a significant role in modern electronics and electric devices. Thermal or mechanical stress on such materials induces a change in polarization generating an electric response, which is the sole effect of why they are so interesting. How ...

Wiley2023

Real-time Personalized Monitoring of Neurological Disorders on Wearable Systems

Renato Zanetti

The terminology of neurological disorders encompasses a range of serious illnesses (e.g., epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease) leading to morbidity, disability, and stigma. Epilepsy alone affects over 50 million people worldwide, and these figures are rising as ...

EPFL2023

Volumetric Additive Manufactuing of Ceramics

Christophe Moser, Paul Delrot, Jorge Andres Madrid Wolff, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Georgia Konstantinou

Two-photon additive manufacturing of ceramic materials has demon-strated high-precision manufacturing of tools at the micrometer scale. Here, we propose single photon volumetric additive manufacturing toovercome limitations on print size and which avoid th ...

IEEE2021

Synthesis of bioactive material by sol-gel process utilizing polymorphic calcium carbonate precipitate and their direct and indirect in-vitro cytotoxicity analysis

Edgard Gnansounou, Manish Kumar

To mitigate the rising level of CO2, biological method of CO2 sequestration is one of the effective methods. Chemolithotrophic microbes are able to fix atmospheric CO2 and precipitated polymorphic minerals like calcite, vaterite and aragonite. Based on thi ...

ELSEVIER2020

Structured nanoscale metallic glass fibres with extreme aspect ratios

Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Vasiliki Tileli, Fabien Sorin, Jordan Squair, Giuseppe Schiavone, Nicholas David James, Wei Yan, Yunpeng Qu, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Güven Kurtuldu, Reinis Ignatans, Inès Richard

Micro- and nanoscale metallic glasses offer exciting opportunities for both fundamental research and applications in healthcare, micro-engineering, optics and electronics. The scientific and technological challenges associated with the fabrication and util ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Spark Plasma Sintering of Ceramics: From Modeling to Practice

Paul Bowen, Michael Stuer, Zhe Zhao

Summarizing the work of nearly a decade of research on spark plasma sintering (SPS), a review is given on the specificities and key factors to be considered in SPS of ceramic materials, based on the authors’ own research. Alumina is used primarily as a mod ...

2020

Glass-ceramics for cancer treatment: So close, or yet so far?

Arash Ramedani

After years of research on the ability of glass-ceramics in bone regeneration, this family of biomateria Is has shown revolutionary potentials in a couple of emerging applications such as cancer treatment. Although glass-ceramics have not yet reached their ...

2019

Fabrication and Test of High-Temperature Ceramic Transformer

Peter Ryser, Thomas Maeder, Conor Joseph Slater

This work describes the fabrication and test of a high temperature (+200°C) capable high frequency transformer. It was manufactured using Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) technology, which allowed the complex multilayer structure of ceramic and meta ...

2014

Breaking of the macroscopic centric symmetry in Ba₁₋xSrxTiO₃ ceramics and single crystals

Alberto Biancoli

Beyond the possibility of finding a lead-free piezoceramics as replacement for PZT, the world-wide research has focused on other mechanisms of electro-mechanical coupling alternative to piezoelectricity, such as electrostriction and, more recently, flexoel ...

EPFL2014

Segregation of anion (Cl−) impurities at transparent polycrystalline α-alumina interfaces

Paul Bowen, Cécile Hébert, Marco Cantoni, Farhang Nabiei, Abhishek Tewari

Small amounts of anion impurities (e.g. Cl), which are incorporated during the synthesis of ceramic powders, can affect the properties and microstructure of the final sintered ceramic. The effect of anion impurities is a little studied and poorly understoo ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2014

Atomistic Modeling of Processing Issues for Transparent Polycrystalline Alumina

Abhishek Tewari

Transparent polycrystalline alumina has many possible promising areas of application from jewelry and the watch industry to wave guides, energy economical lamp envelopes, and optical windows. Ultrahigh density, submicron sized grains and/or oriented micros ...

EPFL2013

Transparent Polycrystalline Alumina : Processing, Sintering and Microstructural Analysis

Michael Stuer

Over the last century, the constant quest to improve the mechanical properties of ceramics has ultimately led to the appearance and production of transparent ceramics. Indeed, microstructural refinement and reduction of the residual porosity after sinterin ...

EPFL2012

3D structuration of LTCC and related technologies for thermal management and microfluidic structures

Peter Ryser, Thomas Maeder, Caroline Jacq, Bo Jiang, Fabrizio Vecchio, Conor Joseph Slater

Ceramic technologies such as LTCC (Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic) and thick-film are used widely in electronic circuits exposed to harsh environments, for applications in fields such as aerospace, automotive and energy exploration, where, owing to their ...

Soc Microelectronics, Electron Components Materials-Midem2012

Surface Functionalisation of Alumina Ceramic Foams with Organic Ligands

Sandrine Gerber, Vincent Laporte, Pascal Miéville, Françoise Borcard, Marc Anthony Caporini

Different anchoring groups have been studied with the aim of covalently binding organic linkers to the surface of alumina ceramic foams. The results suggested that a higher degree of functionalisation was achieved with a pyrogallol derivative - as compared ...

2012

The effect of processing conditions on the morphology, thermomechanical, dielectric, and piezoelectric properties of P(VDF-TrFE)/BaTiO3 composites

Véronique Michaud, Yves Leterrier, Dragan Damjanovic, Sara Dalle Vacche

In this study (0-3) P(VDF-TrFE)/BaTiO3 composites containing up to 60 vol% of ceramic phase were prepared by solvent casting or compression molding. Their thermomechanical, dielectric, and piezoelectric properties were investigated, and discussed in the li ...

Springer Verlag2012

Prototyping a High-Frequency Inductive Magnetic Sensor Using the Nonconventional, Low-Temperature Co-Fired Ceramic Technology for Use in ITER

Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, René Chavan, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Matthieu Toussaint, Gilbert Tonetti, Thomas Maeder, Jérôme Guterl

The ITER high-frequency (HF) magnetic sensor is currently intended to be a conventional, Mirnov-type, pickup coil, designed to provide measurements of magnetic instabilities with magnitude as low as |dB|~10e-4G at the position of the sensors and up to freq ...

2011

Influence of reinforcement contiguity on the thermal expansion of alumina particle reinforced aluminium composites

Andreas Mortensen, Ludger Weber, Reza Tavangar Hamzehkolaei, Ghodratollah Roudini

Pore-free composites combining alumina particles within a matrix of pure aluminium are produced by pressure infiltration, varying systematically the degree of the contiguity, beta, of the ceramic phase by sintering prior to infiltration. The thermal expans ...

2010

Dielectric and piezoelectric properties of PZT ceramics with anisotropic porosity

Dragan Damjanovic

Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 ceramics with homogenous, anisotropic porosity were manufactured and the influence of the anisotropic porosity on the dielectric and piezoelectric properties was studied. Image analysis allowed the quantification of the preferential orientation ...

Springer Verlag2010

Ceramic particles and layers for functional application

Heinrich Hofmann

Besides 'bulk' structural and functional ceramic, a third interesting group of inorganic or ceramic materials exists: particles used for medical applications like contrast agent as building blocks for photonic crystals, as thin or thick layers with control ...

2009

Sensors and packages based on LTCC and thick-film technology for severe conditions

Peter Ryser, Thomas Maeder, Caroline Jacq

Reliable operation in harsh environments such as high temperatures, high pressures, aggressive media and space, poses special requirements for sensors and packages, which usually cannot be met using polymer-based technologies. Ceramic technologies, especia ...

2009