Advanced Ceramics and Composites Using Microwave Technology

Dear Colleagues,

The transition towards more sustainable technologies requires energetically efficient and environmentally friendly processes. One route toward this goal is by using the microwave technology-processing of functional ceramics, which mainly concerns oxides. For most oxide ceramics, the conventional sintering temperature is typically above 1400 °C and the sintering time can be on the order of several hours (> 10 h). Ceramic oxide materials are ubiquitous in today’s technologies. For example, nowadays, the electronics industry uses millions of components based on dielectric oxides.

For these and many other reasons, microwave sintering is a very attractive technique for ceramic processing. However, it does require understanding, both from a physical and technological perspective, the main aspects of electromagnetic fields and the interactions in internal microwave cavities dedicated to ceramic sintering.

This Special Issue will focus on the development and design of ceramic materials using non-conventional microwave technology, with an emphasis on their dielectric properties and on the influence of electro-magnetic fields, and will also discuss their final properties and potential applications. This Special Issue will also be intentioned with the aim of not limiting the aspects that seem necessary to understand what occurs regarding microwaves inside ceramics.

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.

Dr. Amparo Borrell
Dr. Rut Benavente
Guest Editors

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