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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. ...

Every Year, students of the Elite Master’s Programme Advanced Materials and Processes (MAP) select two of their lecturers for the Best Lecturer Award. This year, the students opted for Stephan since “he also showed us how things that we take for granted can be deeply intriguing. The last time I ...

Calcite is the most stable mineral form of calcium carbonate encountered everywhere from ocean corral and oyster shells to hard water scale deposits in place such as pipes, showers, and dishwashers. When calcite precipitates from solutions of calcium carbonate the process begins with amorphous precu...

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...

FAU and TH Nürnberg are conducting joint research into how to make glass production greener in future 2022 is the international year of glass. And yet many glass factories are struggling to survive. High energy costs and considerable CO2 emissions mean that glass production faces a challenging futu...

Dr. Stephan E. Wolf, Privatdozent am Lehrstuhl für Glas und Keramik des Departments Werkstoffwissenschaften, ist in das prestigeträchtige Heisenberg-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) aufgenommen worden. In seinem Heisenberg-Projekt widmet sich Stephan Wolf amorphen, also „ungeor...

In the recently published paper in physica status solidi (b) basic solid state physics on "Stress and Deformation Behavior of 2D Composite Cellular Actuator Structures of Ceramic Building Blocks and Epoxy Resins" from Dr. Fey's group in collaboration with Prof. Kakimoto from Naygoya Institute of Tec...

Dr.-Ing. habil. Tobias Fey received his teaching qualification for the subject of materials science and is now allowed to use the title "Privatdozent". He is now a member of the university and authorized to examine PhD students. Congratulations PD Dr. -Ing. habil. Tobias Fey!

As part of the collaboration between FAU and Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, the IRTG offers four new interdisciplinary graduate level lectures on device development and advanced characterization methods in the summer semester 2022. Those week-long lectures (5 ECTS) will be given by a joint F...