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Vasantha Amarakoon

Academic Title: Professor

Administrative Title: Director, NYS Center for Advanced Ceramic Technology at Alfred University

Name: Vasantha Amarakoon

Personal Website: http://nyscc.alfred.edu/cems/du/facu/facu_main.html

 

Department: Ceramic and Electrical Engineering

Department Website: http://engineering.alfred.edu/facultyandstaff/profile.cfm?us...

Institution: New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred

 

Address: 1 Saxon Drive
Alfred, New York 14802

 

Highest Degree:

Date of Degree: 1984

Degree Institution: University of Illinois,

 

E-mail: Contact by e-mail?

 

Expertise: Grain Boundary engineering of electronic ceramics (PTCR thermistors based on semiconducting BaTiO3, alcohol based sensors based on SnO2, I. R. sensing pyroelectric titanates, yttrium-iron garnet, LiZn and MnZn ferrites for high frequency application, Ba2Y1Cu3O7 superconducting ceramics, cordierite ceramic substrates. Use of novel techniques of nanoparticles and sol-gel coating of powders to overcome problems associated with reproducibility and reliability of electronic ceramic devices.

 

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