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This book presents the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Global Research and Education, Inter-Academia 2018 held in Kaunas, Lithuania on 24–27 September 2018. The main goal of the conference was to provide an international forum to review, stimulate, and understand the recent trends in both fundamental and applied research. In addition to increasing interest in recent research findings, the conference aimed to strengthen the cooperation between the partners of the Inter-Academia community towards new theoretical and practical research advances. The papers included cover topics in the fields of material science and technology, nanotechnology, plasma physics, biotechnology and environmental engineering, electric and electronic engineering, robotics, measurement, identification, and control, soft computing techniques and modeling, multimedia and e-Learning. The book is a valuable scientific reference resource for the global scientific community.
Today, thin films are near-ubiquitous and are utilised in a very wide range of industrially and scientifically important areas. These include familiar everyday instances such as anti-reflective coatings on ophthalmic lenses, smartphone optics, photovoltaics, decorative, and tool coatings. A range of somewhat more exotic applications also exists, such as astronomical instrumentation (e.g., ultra-low loss dielectric mirrors and beam splitters in gravitational wave detectors, such as laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory (LIGO)), gas sensing, medical devices and implants, and accelerator coatings (e.g., coatings for the large hadron collider (LHC), and compact linear collider (CLIC) experiments at European organization for nuclear research (CERN)). This Special Issue will provide a platform for researchers working in any area within this highly diverse field to share and exchange their latest research findings. The Special Issue contains novel studies encompassing material characterisation techniques, a range of thin-film coating deposition processes and applications of such technology.
This Special Issue of Crystals contains papers focusing on various properties of conducting ceramics. Multiple aspects of both the research and application of this group of materials have been addressed. Conducting ceramics are the wide group of mostly oxide materials which play crucial roles in various technical applications, especially in the context of the harvesting and storage of energy. Without ion-conducting oxides, such as yttria-stabilized zirconia, doped ceria devices such as solid oxide fuel cells would not exist, not to mention the wide group of other ion conductors which can be applied in batteries or even electrolyzers, besides fuel cells. The works published in this Special Issue tackle experimental results as well as general theoretical trends in the field of ceramic conductors, or electroceramics, as it is often referred to.
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