Recent Advances in Ceramic Thin Films: Fabrication, Properties and Applications
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Ceramic Coatings and Engineering Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2023) | Viewed by 265
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ferroelectricity; electrocaloric effects; elastocaloric effects
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ceramic thin films are currently already used in a wide range of practical applications, such as infrared sensors and transparent conductive films. In addition, there are many areas where their application is being considered in the future. These include piezoelectric MEMS using piezoelectric thin films and memory applications of new ferroelectric materials such as HfO2 and AlN. Ceramic thin films have been fabricated using a wide variety of methods, including vapor phase methods such as sputtering and CVD, and liquid phase methods such as chemical solutions and hydrothermal synthesis, resulting in a wide range of structural and property changes. These methods are maturing to a level where thin films with specific compositions and structures can be intentionally produced. Many compounds that are difficult to fabricate in bulk can be obtained using thin film fabrication technology. In addition, the quality of thin films has improved as the equipment used in deposition systems has advanced. Ceramic thin film deposition is becoming increasingly important as a fundamental elemental technology for nanotechnology structure fabrication.
In this Special Issue, we hope to cover a wide range of innovative methods. We invite submissions of ambitious papers on new materials, fabrication methods, and application areas related to ceramic thin films.
This scope of this Special Issue will serve as a forum for papers on the following concepts:
- New low-temperature thin film formation methods；
- Preparation of high-performance thin films by hydrothermal synthesis；
- Reliability of novel ferroelectric thin films；
- New application fields of piezoelectric MEMS.
Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Maiwa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sputtering
- MEMS
- chemical solution deposition
- epitaxial growth
- nanotechnology
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