Gordon Research Conference on Solid State Studies in Ceramics; August 1-6, 1999; Kimball Union, NH

传统上，固态陶瓷界将注意力集中在广泛的陶瓷材料中有限数量的物理性能的优化上。基础科学处理的范围和深度令人印象深刻，商业上的成功，已经从这项研究中成长起来，正变得越来越普遍。目前，陶瓷研究界通过细观力学研究微观组织发展的关系以及微观组织与强度和韧性的关系，已经成为一门基础科学。该团体将于1999年夏天召开陶瓷戈登固态研究会议，并将其注意力和技能转向陶瓷应用的新领域。会议的目标是在新兴技术的框架内确定突出的关键基础科学问题及其解决方法。为了实现这一目标，会议引入了新的形式：预先选定主题的邀请海报，2个小组讨论，由资深人士简要介绍主题，然后回答听众的问题，海报比赛，以及一个关于教育的重点会议。大约100人将参加会议，包括教师、学生、工业和政府科学家以及政府项目官员。陶瓷正被用于新器件和新应用。在这类新兴技术中，陶瓷的一些开发和利用已经发生在传统的固态陶瓷领域之外。新兴技术通常涉及在非常小的长度尺度上使用陶瓷。目前的例子包括消费类电子产品、生化传感器、卫星通信、铁电计算机存储器的小型化。本次会议将有助于确定关键的研究领域，使这些新兴技术成为可能

The solid state ceramics community has traditionally focused its attention on optimization of a limited number of physical properties in a broad range of ceramic materials. The scope and depth of fundamental science of processing is very impressive and commercial successes, which have grown out of this research, are becoming increasingly common. The ceramics research community now has a fundamental science for the relation to microstructural development and the relation of microstructure to strength and toughness through micromechanics. The community will convene at the Ceramics Gordon Conference on Solid State Studies in Ceramics in the summer of 1999 and turn the its attention and skills towards new frontiers for the applications of ceramics. The goal of the conference is to establish, within a framework of the emerging technologies, outstanding critical fundamental scientific issues and approaches to their resolution. To accomplish this goal, new formats are being introduced to the conference: invited posters on a pre-selected topic, 2 panel discussion where senior people present short outlines of the topic, and then take questions from the floor, a poster competition, and a focussed session on education. Approximately 100 people will attend the conference, including faculty, students, industrial and government scientists, and government program officers.%%%Ceramics are being utilized in novel devices and new applications. Some of the development and utilization of ceramics in such emerging technologies has occurred outside of the traditional community of solid state ceramics. Emerging technologies often involve the use of ceramics at very small length scales. Current examples include miniaturization in consumer electronics, biochemical sensors, satellite communications, ferroelectric computer memories. This conference will help define the critical research areas to enable these emerging technologies.***