Dr. Shintaro Ueno received an Excellent Award at the 37th Electronics Division Meeting of the Ceramics Society of Japan. And Mr. Tomoya Aizawa (M1) received a Research Encouragement Award

?Dr. Shintaro Ueno, an associate professor of Department of Applied Chemistry received an Excellent Award at the 37th Electronics Division Meeting of the Ceramics Society of Japan (12 – 13 October 2017).

?His group developed the novel low-temperature process to prepare composite ceramic capacitors consisting of base metal grains and insulated grain boundary layers (usually called as barrier layer capacitors in this research field), and they also reported the recent progress in metal / insulator composite capacitors with fine grains exhibiting excellent dielectric properties.

?In addition, Mr. Tomoya Aizawa (M1, Applied Chemistry Course, Wada laboratory) awarded a Research Encouragement Award at the same meeting.

?Mr. Aizawa reported that piezoelectric properties were improved due to suppress volatilization of bismuth by using large-size particles and employing a spark plasma sintering method, which can sinter ceramics at a lower temperature and within a shorter time. A further development can be expected by more precise defect control.