The need for materials for demanding optical applications has engendered a resurgent
interest in transparent ceramics. Transparent polycrystalline magnesium aluminate spinel is …

Quantum chemistry has become an invaluable tool for studying the electronic excitation
phenomena underlying many important chemical, biological, and technological processes …

As the uses of Al2O3 and other ceramics expand into new and more demanding
applications, it is increasingly important to understand their electronic structure and its …

The addition of suitable dopants to ZrO 2 can induce dramatic phase stabilization, and this
dopant-induced phase stabilization is the basis of transformation toughening of zirconia …

The electronic structure of zinc aluminate (ZnAl 2 O 4) and that of zinc gallate (ZnGa 2 O 4)
were studied by the self-consistent tight-binding linearized muffin-tin orbital method with the …

Polymer-based dielectrics are widely utilized due to the high power density, fast discharging-
charging speed and broad operating temperature range. However, suffering from the …

As a first step in the identification of suitable alternative gate dielectrics for metal oxide
semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), we have used tabulated thermodynamic …

The optical properties of alpha‐Al2O3 have been determined by two independent methods,
vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) spectroscopy and electron energy‐loss spectroscopy (EELS) over …

The electronic structures, the charge-density distributions, and the optical-absorption spectra
in MgO, α-Al 2 O 3, and MgAl 2 O 4 crystals are studied by means of the first-principles self …

Oxygen vacancies (VO) in oxides are extensively used to manipulate vital material
properties. Although methods to predict defect formation energies have advanced …