Cell and Energy Stoage Technology (4yrs)
- Novel electrode materials fabrication.
- High energy density cell prototyping and pilot manufacturing.
- Sintering mechanism for high ionic conductive materials.
Nitride hot surface igniter (HSI) development (3yrs)
- Joule heating behavior in carbide and nitride ceramics.
- Thick film deposition
- Design of next-generation HSI.
- Drive the R&D for new products.
- Process optimization, reliability improvement.
Electrohydrodynamic processing of ceramic/polymer thin films (2yrs)
- Highly scalable thin film coating technique application in ceramics
- TCO, alumina, YAG, yttria dense thin films from polymeric precursors
Advanced ceramics pocessing
- Wet-chemistry synthesis of nanopowders
- Field-assisted sintering
P-type CuAlO2 as a multifunctional building block for energy applications (3yrs)
- Preparation of CuAlO2 thinfilms and nanofibers via electrohydrodynamic forming.
- Optical characterizations together with a quantum confinement model to probe the blueshift effect of CuAlO2: Y nanofibers.
- CuAlO2 intrinsic photoluminescence study and its potential application as phosphor host for trivalent rare earth dopants.
- Electrical conductivity enhancement with tuning the Cu hybridization.
Solid-state single crystal conversion (1yr)
- Addressed the consolidation and phase stability issues of non-oxide Sr-FAP ceramics.
- Improved the conversion rate with field assisted annealing.
- Correlated grain growth suppression under the electric field to the interface migration.
- Determined impurity ions developed at mobile boundary as the limiting factor of further conversion.
Field-assisted sintering as an efficient consolidation technique (4yrs)
- Fabricated transparent/translucent polycrystalline ceramics, such as Sr-FAP, CaF, Al2O3.
- Fulfilled the task of achieving densified BaTiO3 and zirconia-based composites via spark plasma sintering.
- Designed and built a field-adjustable furnace for investigating the electric field effect on bulk CuAlO2 and Sr-FAP ceramics.