Ahmed Gadelmawla successfully defended his doctoral thesis on “Stress Modulated Electromechanical Coupling of Lead-Free Ferroelectrics”. During his research he characterized the macroscopic properties of lead-free ferroelectrics, focusing on the influence of stress in the vicinty of phase boundaries...
Udo Eckstein successfully defended his doctoral thesis on “Structural and Chemical relaxation in aerosol-deposited barium titanate thick films". During his research he developed a method to produce freestanding films that he used to investigate the influence of defects on the functional properties. ...
At the recent event for Alexander von Humboldt Fellows, the German President got a chance to meet Prof. Ali Hussain, who is currently working at the Institute of Glass and Ceramics. Prof. Hussain is research more sustainable lead-free materials for solid state energy storage devices. These systems a...
Kevin Rieß successfully defended his doctoral thesis on "Defect-modulated Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Sodium Bismuth Titanate". His research was focused on understanding the influence of A-site non-stoichiometry on electromechanical properties in Bi-based lead-free ferroelectrics, where ...
Biominerals – shells, teeth, or even bones – are ceramics generated by organisms whose function and resilience have been evolutionarily optimized over millions of years. In contrast to conventional, synthetic ceramics, these biological ceramics often exhibit very complex and well-controlled crystall...
The article “In situ combined stress- and temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy of Li-doped (Na,K)NbO3” by Dr. Neamul Khansur and an international team of co-authors from Germany, Japan, and China was recently selected as one of the best papers of 2021 for the Journal of the American Ceramic Soci...
We congratulate Michael Beck on the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation entitled "Optical properties of film cast single and multilayer transparent YAG and spinel ceramics" on February 2, 2022. Mr. Beck carried out his PhD project in our institute under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andre...
Prof. Daisuke Urushihara, Assistant Professor at the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, has joined the Functional Ceramics Research Group of the Institute of Glass and Ceramics for a 6-month research visit as part of the International Research and Training Group (GRK2495) "Energy Conversion Syst...
Prof. Ali Hussain, Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Institute of Space technology, Pakistan, joined the Functional Ceramics Research Group at the Institute of Glass and Ceramics as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow for an 18 month research stay. He will be...
In this video, Dr. Tobias Fey, head of the Cellular Ceramics Research Group at the Institute of Glass and Ceramics, explains the manufacturing and use of lightweight ceramic foams.