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Author:: Stringer, Craig Joseph
Title:: Structure-Property-Performance Relationships of New High Temperature Relaxors for Capacitor Applications
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Relaxor ferroelectrics
High temperature capacitors
Vogel-Fulcher
Perovskite
File:: Download Stringer2006.pdf
Committee Members:: Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Leslie Eric Cross, Committee Member

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Author:: Griggio, Flavio
Title:: Local Piezoelectric Behavior in PZT-Based Thin Films for Ultrasound Transducers
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: PZT
thin films
ultrasound transducer
piezo-force microscopy
File:: Download PhD_Thesis_Flavio_Griggio.pdf
Committee Members:: Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member

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Author:: Brosnan, Kristen H
Title:: PROCESSING, PROPERTIES, AND APPLICATION OF TEXTURED 0.72Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.28PbTiO3 CERAMICS
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: PMN-PT
templated grain growth
ferroelectrics
piezoelectrics
ceramic
microstructure control
File:: Download PhDBrosnan.pdf
Committee Members:: Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Joseph Meyer Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member

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Author:: Ugorek, Michael S
Title:: Patterned Solid State Growth of BaTiO3 Crystals
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Barium Titanate
single crystal growth
patterning
File:: Download MSUgorek_PhD_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Gary Lynn Messing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member

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Author:: Bassiri Gharb, Nazanin
Title:: Dielectric and piezoelectric nonlinearities in oriented PYbN-PT thin films
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: ferroelectric
thin film
nonlinearities
extrinsic contributions
domain walls
File:: Download Thesis-Bassiri-Dec2005.pdf
Committee Members:: Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Dragan Damjanovic, Committee Member

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Author:: Bintachitt, Patamas
Title:: Local Origin of Macroscopic Properties and Patterning in PbZr(1-x)Ti(x)O(3) Films
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Ferroelectrics
Piezoelectric
Thin Films
Piezoelectric Force Microscopy (PFM)
MEMS
Lead Zirconate Titanate PZT
File:: Download PhD_thesis_patamas_bintachitt.pdf
Committee Members:: Prof Susan Trolier Mc Kinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member
Christopher Muhlstein, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

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Author:: Eitel, Richard Edward
Title:: NOVEL PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS: DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH TEMPERATURE, HIGH PERFORMANCE PIEZOELECTRICS ON THE BASIS OF STRUCTURE
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: piezoelectric
ferroelectric
bismuth
lead titanate
perovskite
ceramic
tolerance factor
Curie temperature
File:: Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David John Green, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Leslie Eric Cross, Committee Member

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Author:: Polcawich, Ronald Gene
Title:: DESIGN, FABRICATION, TEST, AND EVALUATION OF RF MEMS SERIES SWITCHES USING LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE (PZT) THIN FILM ACTUATORS
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: PZT
RF MEMS
Switch
File:: Download Thesis_PZT_RF_MEMS_Switch_RPolcawich_2007_07_19_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member
Madan Dubey, Committee Member

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Author:: Yosenick, Timothy James
Title:: Synthesis and Colloidal Properties of Anisotropic Hydrothermal Barium Titanate
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Barium Titanate
hydrothermal synthesis
surface chemistry
colloidal properties
File:: Download Yosenick_PhD_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: James Hansell Adair, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member

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Author:: Michael, Elizabeth Kathleen
Title:: Bismuth Pyrochlore-Based Thin Films for Dielectric Energy Storage
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: dielectric energy storage
pyrochlore
thin film
bismuth zinc niobate
nanocomposite
flexible electronics
File:: Download Michael_FullThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

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