This proceedings issue contains a collection of 11 papers presented during the 33rd International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, January, 2009. Papers in this proceedings were presented from one of the three symposia listed below: Symposium 6 - Key Materials and Technologies for Efficient Direct Thermal-to-Electrical Conversion; Symposium 11 - Symposium on Advanced Dielectrics, Piezoelectric, Ferroelectric, and Multiferroic Materials; Focused Session 2 - Materials for Solid State Lighting.

This proceedings issue contains a collection of 11 papers presented during the 33rd International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, January, 2009. Papers in this proceedings were presented from one of the three symposia listed below: Symposium 6 - Key Materials and Technologies for Efficient Direct Thermal-to-Electrical Conversion; Symposium 11 - Symposium on Advanced Dielectrics, Piezoelectric, Ferroelectric, and Multiferroic Materials; Focused Session 2 - Materials for Solid State Lighting.

Preface.Introduction.Dielectric, Pezioelectric, Ferroelectric, and MultiferroicMaterials.Piezoelectric Composite Materials and Structures (Andreas J.Schonecker).Piezoelectricity in (K,Na)NbO3 Based Ceramics (Cheol-Woo AhnChee-Sung Park, Sahn Nahm, and Shashank Priya).Phase Relationship and Microwave Dielectric Properties in theVicinity of Ba(Zn1/3Ta2/3)O3 (Hitoshi Ohsato, Eiichi Koga, IsaoKgomiya, and Ken Ichi Kakimoto).Magnetic Properties of Metal-Ceramic Composite Core-ShellStructures Synthesized using Coprecipitation and Hetero-Coagulation(M. Karmarkar, R. Islam, C.W. Ahn, J.T. Abiade, D. Kumar, D.Viehiand and S. Priya).Strong Electric Field Tuning of Magnetism in MultiferroicHeterostructures (Ming Liu, Jing Lou, Ogheneyunume Obi, DavidReed, Carl Pettiford, Stephen Stoute and Nian X. Sun).Mechanical Strain and Piezoelectric Properties of PZT StacksRElated to Semi-Bipolar Electric Cyclic Fatigue (Hong WangHua-Tay Lin, Thomas A. Cooper, and Andrew A. Wereszczak).Intergranular Fractal Impedance Analysis of Microstructure andElectrical Properties of Rare-Earth Doped BaTiO3 (V. Mitic, V.B.Pavlovic, Lj Kocic, V. Paunovic, and D. Mancic).Thermal to Electric Conversion.Ca-Doping and Thermoelectric Properties of CaxCoO2 EpitaxialFilms (Kenji Sugiura, Hiromichi Ohta, Kenji Nomura, HideoHosono, and Kunihito Koumouto).Thermoelectric Generators (David Michael Rowe).Chemical Thermodynamic in Thermoelectric Materials (JeanClaude Tedenac, R.M. Marin Ayral, Didier Ravot, and F.Gascoin).Strength of Bismuth Telluride (A.A. Wereszczak, T.P.Kirkland, O.M. Jadaan, and H. Wang).Materials for Solid State Lighting.Sulfoselenide Phosphors and Nanophosphors for Solid-StateLighting (H. Menkara, T.R. Morris II, R.A. Gilstrap Jr, B.K.Wagner, and C.J. Summers).Author Index.