Ceramics for Smart Systems

The Ceramics for Smart Systems Group, CSS, belong to the Department of Electroceramics at the Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio, CSIC. The working group is composed of 2 staff researchers, 7 hired researchers and 2 PhD Students. The group is founded in an extended experience in microstructure control and its relationship with the ceramic material properties. The search of functionalities is mainly focused on their application in “Smart Systems”, using the wide variety of ceramic materials with electrical-electronic-magnetic properties: ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, insulators, dielectrics, semiconductors, and also “traditional ceramics”. As a consequence of the scientific excellence, the knowledge Transfer and the Projects with private companies carried out by the Ceramic for Smart System Group, relevant scientific and technological advances are achieved in the last five years in the field of functional ceramic materials.