**Meet the editor**

Dr Arunachalam Lakshmanan obtained his Bachelor and Master Degree in Physics with Distinction at the Annamalai University. He joined Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 1971 and served as a scientific officer untill 1990. He obtained his PhD degree on Thermoluminescence at the Bombay University in 1981. In 1982 and 1983 he worked as a Scientific Associate at CERN,

Geneva, Switzerland. For a period of 2 years, Dr Lakshmanan worked as a AvH fellow at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. He was a visiting Professor in several universities in Japan, France and South Korea. He was an Editorial Board Member in Radiation Protection Dosimetry Journal, UK. From 1990 to 2007, Dr. Lakshmanan was head of the Radiation Dosimetry Section at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research. In 2008, Dr. Lakshmanan published a book titled "Luminescence of Display Phosphors- Phenomena and Applications". Presently he is working as a Physics Professor at the Saveetha Engineering College, Chennai, India. His research areas include Synthesis of Luminescence Phosphors and Exploiting Zero Point Energy for power production.

Contents

**Preface XI** 

Chapter 2 **Synthesis of Diamond** 

Rosidah Alias

Chapter 4 **Microwave Sintering** 

Chih-Ta Tsai

Chapter 6 **Advanced Sintering Techniques in Design of Planar IT SOFC and** 

**Part 1 New Sintering Techniques 1** 

and Ruth H.G.A. Kiminami

Chapter 3 **The Effects of Sintering Temperature Variations on Microstructure Changes of LTCC Substrate 59** 

> **of Thermistor Ceramics 85**  Aimin Chang, Huimin Zhang, Qing Zhao and Bo Zhang

Chapter 5 **Cold-Bonding Technique – A New Approach** 

**to Recycle Innocuous Construction Residual** 

**Soil, Sludge, and Sediment as Coarse Aggregates 95** 

**Supported Oxygen Separation Membranes 121**  Vladislav Sadykov, Vladimir Usoltsev, Yulia Fedorova, Natalia Mezentseva, Tamara Krieger, Nikita Eremeev, Marina Arapova, Arcady Ishchenko, Alexey Salanov, Vitaly Pelipenko, Vitaly Muzykantov, Artem Ulikhin, Nikolai Uvarov, Oleg Bobrenok, Alexander Vlasov,

Petr Kalinin, Oleg Smorygo and Manfred Thumm

Mikhail Korobeynikov, Aleksei Bryazgin, Andrei Arzhannikov,

Chapter 1 **Microwave Fast Sintering of Ceramic Materials 3**  Romualdo R. Menezes, Pollyane M. Souto

> **Using Spark Plasma Sintering 27**  Faming Zhang and Eberhard Burkel
