Details of Grant

EPSRC Reference:

EP/F012403/1

Title:

A collaboration in functional electroceramics through people exchange

Principal Investigator:

Other Investigators:

Reaney, Professor IM	Sinclair, Professor D	West, Professor AR
Alford, Professor N	Leach, Dr C

Researcher Co-Investigators:

Project Partners:

Hitachi	Nagoya Institute of Technology	Nanyang Technological University
National Institute for Materials Science	Polytechnic University of Madrid UPM	Powerwave UK Ltd
Research Centre Juelich	St Petersburg Electrotechnical Uni	Tamkang University
University of Aveiro	Vienna University of Technology

Department:

Materials

Organisation:

University of Manchester, The

Scheme:

Standard Research

Starts:

01 October 2007

Ends:

31 May 2009

Value (£):

151,216

EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:

Materials Characterisation

Materials Processing

EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:

Electronics

Related Grants:

Panel History:

Panel Date	Panel Name	Outcome
30 Apr 2007	Collaborating for Success Through People	Announced

Summary on Grant Application Form

The functional electroceramics market is multibillion pounds in value and growing year by year. Electroceramic components are vital to the operation of a wide variety of home electronics, mobile communications, computer, automotive and aerospace systems. The UK ceramics industry tends to focus on a number of specialist markets and there are new opportunities in sensors, communications, imaging and related systems as new materials are developed. To enable the UK ceramics community to benefit from the new and emerging techniques for the processing and characterisation of functional electroceramics a series of collaborative exchanges will be undertaken between the three UK universities (Manchester, Sheffield and Imperial College) and universities and industry in Europe (Austria, Germany, Russia, Czech Republic), the USA and Asia (Japan, Taiwan and Singapore). These exchanges will enable the UK researchers (particularly those at an early stage of their careers) to learn new experimental and theoretical techniques. This knowledge and expertise will be utilised in the first instance in the new bilateral collaborative projects, and transferred to the UK user communities (UK universities and UK industry). A number of seminars and a two day Workshop will be held to help the dissemination of knowledge.

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