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TURNER LABORATORY FOR ELECTROCERAMICS
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Purpose of lab:
The focus of research in the Turner Laboratory for Electroceramics
is on electronic ceramics and the activities range from efforts
to fabricate technologically important electronic products to
attempts to understand the fundamentals of materials behavior.
Examples of such products are ferroelectric thin films for memory
applications and high temperature superconductor films. Recently
completed studies in these two areas included processing films
using metallo-organic decomposition, optimizing the firing processes
to promote preferential growth in films, and studying microstructures
and composition control in conjunction with properties. The current
research activities include growing in-plane textured 123 superconducting
and ferroelectric films using both MOD and sputtering techniques,
using metal oxide contacts for ferroelectric memories, interface
characterization, studying mechanisms responsible for charge losses
in ferroelectrics known as fatigue, effects of films irradiation
and its meritsto understand fatigue and space charge. The Turner
Laboratory is equipped to facilitate research in the above areas
and in electroceramics research, in general. Some of its facilities
include clean working station with class 100atmosphere, lithography
spinner, thermal analysis facility with TGA, DTA, and DSC, ferroelectric
testing station, RF/DC sputtering unit, cryogenic 4-probe resistance
measuring system, laser patterning, a.c. and d.c. electrical measurements,
controlled atmosphere IR furnace, and other conventional furnaces.
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Ferroelectric testing system
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