Advances in Dielectric Materials and Electronic Devices

K. M. Nair is the editor of Advances in Dielectric Materials and Electronic Devices: Proceedings of the 107th Annual Meeting of The American Ceramic Society, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2005, published by Wiley.Ruyan Guo is an electrical engineer and the Robert E. Clarke Endowed Professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio. Guo was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for his contributions to the understanding of polarization phenomena in ferroelectric solid-solution systems.

• Preface ivMaterial Design and SynthesisMolecular Designing of Fine Particles Using Aerosol Synthesis 3Dragan Uskokovic and Vukoman JokanovicSize Effect of Dielectric Properties for Barium Titnate Particles and its Model Using Two Factors 15Satoshi Wada,Takuya Hoshina, Hiroaki Yasuno, Masanori Ohishi, Hirofumi Kakemoto, Takaaki Tsurumi, and Masatomo YashimaEmbedded Ceramic Passive on FR-4 Using Aerosol Deposition 27Yoshihiko Imanaka and Jun AkedoNovel Routes to Ferroelectric Gadolinium Molybdenum Oxides 39Allen W. Apblett, Mohamed Chehbouni, and Larry E. ReinhardtPreparation of High Dispersion Ti02 Powders by Chlorideprocess to Synthesize Ultra Fine Dielectric Powders 47Hideki SakaiTwo-Phase Ceramic Dielectrics 55James A. Zaykoski, Curtis A. Martin, Inna G Talmy, and Glenn ZoskiDeposition and Single-Step Processing of YBCO Thick Films for Multilayered Electronics 69Matthew Lynch, Jonathan Langman, David Clark, and Diane FolzLaser Transferred Sol-Gel PZTThin Films 77Baomin Xu, Alexandra Rodkin, James Zesch, David White, Steve Buhler, John Fitch, and Karl LittauSynthesis and Characterization of C-N Thin Films Deposited on Si (100) Wafer by MPCVD 89R.S. Kukreja and Raj N. SinghNovel Dielectric Crystals: Ternary Selenides 95Ganga Dhar Singh and O.P. SinghAerosol Deposition for Fabrication of High Speed Opticalmicro-Scanner 99J. Akedo and M. LebedevProcessing and PropertiesThe Effect of Processing,Tantalum-Replacement, and Lanthanum-Doping on the Dielectric Properties of Lead Magnesium Niobate-Lead Titanate Ceramics 109Barry Bender and Ming-Jen PanDielectric and Magnetoelectric Properties of 1-X NBT - X BF Solid Solutions 121S.V. Suryanarayana, E. Venkata Ramana, and T. Bhima SankaramThe PTCR Effect of Donor-Doped Barium Titanate: Origin of the Surface States at the Grain-Boundary 131Buyin Lia, Dongxiang Zhoua, Huiqin Huang, and Anthony R. WestLead-Free Piezoelectric Ceramic Based on (Bi1/2Na1/2)Ti)3-(Bi1/2Kl;2)Ti03-BaTi03 Solid Solution 139Yuji Hiruma, Yoichi Makiuchi, Rintaro Aoyagi, Hajime Nagata, and Tadashi TakenakaLarge Spontaneous Polarizaion in Suprelattice-Structured Bismuth Layerd Ferroelectric Crystals 147Tomo Kobayashi.Yuji Noguchi, and Masaru MiyayamaImpact of SrRuOj/LaNiOj Doubly-Stacked Bottom Electrode on the Characteristics of c-Axis-Oriented CaBi4Ti4015 Films 155Kenji Takahashi, Muneyasu Suzuki, Shoji Okamoto, and Hiroshi FunakuboComplex Permittivity of Calcium Copper Titanate Ceramics with a Bimodal Grain Size Distribution 165Ming-Jen Pan and Barry A. BenderDielectric and Pyroelectric Behavior of (Ba,_xSrx)Ti03 Composites with Oxide Additives 173S. Agrawal, James R. Berninghausen, J. Cheng, Ruyan Guo, D. Agrawal, and A. S. BhallaEffect of Porosity on the Electrical Properties of Y203-SrTi03 Internal Boundary Layer Capacitors 179Stephen J. LombardoIsotropie Optical Properties of Epitaxial PLZT Thin Films 189Koichi Niwa, Nobuo Kamehara, Masatoshi Ishii, Keisuke Sato, Masayuki Kato, Kazuaki Kurihara, and Masao KondoCharacterization and Application of Pb[(Zn1/3Nb2/3)0.91Ti009]O3 Single Crystal with Giant Electromechanical Coupling Factor k31 197Toshio OgawaDielectric Properties and Phase Transition In Sb/Mn and La/Mn Codoped 33 Ceramics BaTi03 207Lj.M. Zivkovic, V.V. Mitic, V.V. Paunovic, and M. M. MiljkovicProcessing and Properties of Inorganic/Organic Dielectric Nanocomposites 217Burtrand I. Lee, Jason Qi, and Gopi DevarajuSintering Behavior of Ni-Cu-Zn Ferrites for Multilayer Inductors 225J. Töpfer, J. Mürbe, E. Müller, and F. BechtoldProcess Variables, Dielectric Properties, and Microstructures of Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors with Ni Internal Electrodes 237Oiquan Feng, Caspar J. McConville, Doreen D. Edwards, Daniel E. McCauley, and Mike ChuApplicationsHigh Performance Barium Strontium Titanate Thin Film Capacitors for Decoupling Applications 251N. Kamehara, P.C. Mein tyre, K. Kurihara, J. D. Baniecki.T. Shioga, and K. NomuraWettability Considerations for Sub-Micron Base Metal Electrodes in BaTi03 Multilayer Capacitors 259K. S. Weil, E. S. Mast, and V. L. SprenkleInternal Stress and Capacitance Aging of BME-MLCCS 267Yukie Nakano and Takeshi NomuraPiezoceramic Thin-Film Multilayer Resonators on Crystalline Dielectric Substrates 275Arthur BallatoHigh Performance Thin Films for Microwave Phase Shifter Applications: Device Requirements, Material Design, and Process Science Considerations 287M.W. Cole, W.D. Nothwang, S. Hirsch, E. Ngo, C Hubbard, and R. G. GeyerGrowth of Single Crystal Ferroelectric Fibers and Tapers for All Fiber Network Applications 297Man Gu, Hongbo Liu, Zhongxiang Zhou, Redha Pattnaik, Jean Toulouse Amar Bhalla, and Ruyan GuoPermeability and Adhesion Measurements of Laminated Barium Titanate Green Ceramic Tapes 305S. J. Lombardo, J. W. Yun, D. S. Krueger, and P. J. ScheuerThermodynamics of Tunability in (Ba„^TQ^TIOJ Thin Films 315E. K. Akdogan and A. SafariAuthor Index 323