Multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) are small but significant devices of modern electronics, powering everything from smartphones to laptops by enabling efficient charge storage and delivery. These tiny yet complex components feature interleaved nickel electrodes and advanced perovskite ceramics such as barium, zirconium, or strontium titanates. At the nanoscale, their performance depends on intricate phase transformations and grain boundary chemistry, including segregation at core–shell interfaces, which are critical factors for device reliability and efficiency.
Join Katherine Rice as she takes you inside the latest research from the CAMECA Applications Lab. This session will explore cutting-edge specimen preparation techniques, reveal insights into grain boundary segregation, and discuss yield optimization using the newest generation of CAMECA atom probe technology. There will be a live Q&A after the recorded presentation.
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
10AM CST
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Presenter:
Dr. Katherine Rice
Applications and Market Development Manager
CAMECA
Dr. Katherine Rice is an Applications and Market Development Manager with Cameca Instruments in Madison, WI. She received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado-Boulder and completed an NRC postdoc at NIST-Boulder. Her research interests include transmission EBSD, nanoparticle synthesis, and atom probe tomography.