IOP Groups
Smart Dielectrics
1-3 April 1996
Darwin College, University of Kent at Canterbury
The 1996 Annual Dielectrics Society Meeting
SessionsSession 1: Photoconductive materials
Session 2: Photoactive and electro-active polymers
Session 3: Liquid Crystals
Session 4: Ferroelectrics
Session 5: Non-linear optics
Session 6: Charge Storage
Session 7: Electrorheology
Poster Session
Papers
Session 1: Photoconductive materials
Session Leader: H Bässler
Paper 1.1Charge Transport in molecularly doped polymers: Recent Developments
H Bässler, Marburg
Determination of the density of states in disordered semiconductors using transient and modulated photoconductivity: experiment and computer modelling
C Main, Dundee
Analysis of the energy landscape for charge transport in polar glassy materials
R Richert, Mainz
Session 2: Photoactive and electro-active polymers
(Session Leader: F Kremer)
Paper 2.1Discotics: structures, dynamics, applications
J H Wendorff, Marburg
Polymer electroluminescence
D C C Bradley, Sheffield
Electroluminescence in PPV multilayer LEDs
M Meier, Bayreuth
Session 3: Liquid Crystals
Session Leader: G Williams
Paper 3.1Ferroelectric liquid crystals, smart dielectrics for innovative applications: from displays to miniaturised sensors and electromechanical actuators
F Kremer, Leipzig
Molecular relaxations in novel side-chain LC polycarbonates
M Wübbenhorst, Delft
Dielectric spectroscopy of antiferroelectric liquid crystals
J K Vij
Session 4: Ferroelectrics
Session Leader: R W Whatmore
Paper 4.1Ferroelectric ceramics and thin films - new challenges in smart materials
R W Whatmore, Cranfield
Effect of rare earth oxides on the reliability of X7R dielectrics
Y Sakabe, Kyoto
Electroceramic actuators
C E Millar, GEC Marconi
A new piezoelectric and pyroelectric polymer
G R Davies, Leeds
Poster Session
Poster P.1
Pyroelectric films integrated with CCD structures
A S Sigov, V V Chernokozhin, E G Elkin, M I Maleto and E Ph Pevstov
The effect of thermal ageing on the voltage-dependent resistivity characteristics of anti-corona varnishes
M Biron and R Goffaux
AC and DC conductivity of the doped form of the narrow-gap semiconducting polymer Poly(terbutylisothianaphthelene)
T Sommer, A Drury, K Ryder, A P Davey and W Blau
Evolution of ion mobility in cured epoxy resins as seen by dielectric and time-of-flight measurements
J Ulanski, K Friedrich, G Boiteux and G Seytre
The non-linear dielectric effect in 3,3'-dinitrodimesitylene sulfon: kinetic study of the internal rotation in a crowded molecule
E Lepoudre, K De Smet, A Koll & L. Hellemans
Dielectric relaxation of LiCl in Methylpyrrolidone/Cyclic ether mixed solvents
R Biedenkap and M Stockhausen
Molecular dynamics of glass forming liquids confined to nanoporous glasses
M Arndt, R Stannarius, W Gorbatschow and F Kremer
Molecular dynamics in thin and ultra-thin films of a series of poly(-octadecyl-co-methyl-L-glutamates)
G Blum, F Kremer, T Jaworek and G Wegner
The dielectric properties of KLTN crystals
G Bitton, Y Feldman and A J Agranat
Tailoring conducting polymers for large scale electrochromic devices
I J Youngs and M Miah
Temperature dependence of flat dielectric response in silicon oxynitrides
G A Niklasson
Variation of AC electrical properties of emerdine base form of polyaniline during its drying from suspension in metha-cresol
E S Matveeva, V P Parkhutik, R Diaz Calleja and I Hernández-Fuentes
Conductiometric glucose sensor based on glucose oxidase immobilised within dodecyl sulphate doped poly(aniline) films
K Warriner, S Higson and P Vadgama
Design of a zeolite-based pyroelectric thin film calorimeter
G J Klap, J C Jansen, H van Bekkum, M Wübbenhorst and J van Turnhout
Thermally stable liquid crystalline polymers for second-order NLO
R G Howard, A P Davey and W Blau
2D-IR-modulation spectroscopy in a microstructurised electrode system, an investigation of the collective dynamics of thin free-standing ferroelectric liquid crystalline films
N Klöpper, F Kremer and T M Fischer
Morphology and dielectric properties of polymer dispersed liquid crystals
R Aloe, J van Turnhout and M Wubbenhorst
Blends of cellulose derivatives with LC-organisation - the role of intermolecular interactions
J Ulanski, L Okrasa, P Wojciechowski, M Kryszewski, G Boiteux and G Seytre
Optically induced phase separation in a stilbene-doped low molecular weight liquid crystal
A Schönhals, Th Fischer, H.-E Carius and A Seeboth
Dependence of the molecular dynamics on the chain architecture and on mesophase structure of liquid-crystalline polymers
A Schönhals, D Wolff, and J Springer
Application of ferroelectric polymers in pyroelectric sensors
N Neumann, R Köhler and M Schreiter
Amplified piezoelectric actuation for air acoustic applications
L Eric Cross and Q M Zhang
Liquid delivery chemical vapour deposition growth of ferroelectric oxide thin films
P J Wright, M J Crosbie, P A Lane, B Cockayne, D J Williams, R Watton, C Reeves, A C Jones and S Rushworth
A study of dielectrophoresis as a means to assemble composite materials
C P Bowen, T R Shrout, R E Newnham and C A Randall
Electrode effects in PTC and NTC devices measured by impedance spectroscopy
D P Cann and C A Randall
Familiar properties of disordered dielectrics at very low temperatures: a new look at piezoelectric ceramics
J Gilchrist
Processing and properties of the solid-solution phase in the BaO-Nd2O3-TiO2 system
F J Ubic, I M Reaney and W E Lee
Dielectric and optical properties of poly(N-vinylcarbazole)-C60 based guest-host photorefractive polymer systems
M Farsari, G H Cross and D Bloor
A new class of organic molecule for optical switching
E C Smith, C H Wang, A K Kar, B S Wherrett, M Szablewski, G Cross and D Bloor
Long lifetime bacteriorhodopsin-films for optical cache memory
C H Wang, M Bacon, A K Kar, B S Wherrett and R L Baxter
Second harmonic generation from polymeric Langmuir-Blodgett multilayers
Z Ali-Adib, P Hodge, N McCeown, D Dunne, D West, D L Williams and T A King
Photorefractivity in poly(N-vinylcarbazole) composites
G G Malliaris, V V Krasnikov, H J Bolink and G Hadziioannou
Do nickel dithiolenes exhibit sub-nanosecond response times? Comparison of measurements of the third-order non-linear optical susceptibility by the retro-reflection and counter -propagating degenerate four-wave mixing techniques
S M Kuebler, R G Denning and M Russell
Measurement of space charge distribution in ion conductive polymers
K Fukunaga and T Maeno
Preparation and quantitative analysis of polyaniline for the use in electrorheology fluids
K Slack, J Akhavan and H Block
The effect of dipolar screening on relaxation
A K Jonscher
"Transuniversal" Dielectric Response
A K Jonscher and A Isnin
Dielectric relaxation of the electric field: a time domain study in the range 10-3s to 106s
H Wagner and R Richert
Session 5: Non-linear optics
Session Leader: D Bloor
Paper 5.1Non-linear optics and photorefraction in organic/quantum dot/sol-gel media
T A King, Manchester
Third order non-linearity in poly(p-phenylene vinylene) related materials
F Rohlfing, Sheffield
Poling behaviour of high dipole, high molecules in polymer matrices
D Bloor, Durham
Session 6: Charge Storage
Session Leader: R N Hampton
Paper 6.1Use of trapped charges in new devices: electrostatic relays
J Lewiner, ESPCI, Paris
R N Hampton, BICC, Erith Paper 6.3
Preventing unwanted conduction through dielectric liquids
N J Felici, Grenoble
Session 7: Electrorheology
Session Leader: Dr R N Hampton
Paper 7.1Smart fluids and smart dielectrics?
H Block, Cranfield
Effects of interfacial polarisation in electric-field-induced aggregation in electrorheological fluids
B Khusid, New York
Dielectric and electrorheological properties of suspensions prepared from semiconductors: the interfacial polarisation mechanism
R M Webber, The Lubrizol Corporation
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