1. Guest Editorial

   • N Ichinose

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 5

2. A New Trend of Ceramics Research in Japan: “Frontier Ceramics” National Project

   • Noboru Ichinose
   • Hajime Haneda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 13

3. Effect of Liquid Phase and Vaporization on the Formation of Microstructure of Pr Doped ZnO Varistor

   • Naoki Wakiya
   • Sung-Yong Chun
   • Nobuyasu Mizutani

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 23

4. Orientation Control of ZnO Thin Film Prepared by CVD

   • Hiroshi Funakubo
   • Nobuyasu Mizutani
   • Kazuo Shinozaki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 32

5. ZnO Grain Boundaries: Electrical Activity and Diffusion

   • Harry L. Tuller

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 40

6. Oxygen Diffusion in Single- and Poly-Crystalline Zinc Oxides

   • Hajime Haneda
   • Isao Sakaguchi
   • Junzo Tanaka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 48

7. The Role of Co Ions on the Appearance of Non-linear I-V Characteristics in ZnO based Ceramics

   • Masatada Yodogawa
   • Toshiyuki Yamazaki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 53

8. ICTS Measurements of Single Grain Boundaries in ZnO:rare-earth Varistor

   • Akinori Tanaka
   • Kazuo Mukae

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 59

9. Magnetization and Electric Properties of Pr-doped ZnO

   • Naoki Ohashi
   • Shun Mitarai
   • Junzo Tanaka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 68

10. Valence Band Structure of ZnO (1010) Surface by Cluster Calculation

    • Katsuyuki Matsunaga
    • Fumiyasu Oba
    • Hirohiko Adachi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 80

11. Niobium Doping Effect on Resistivity of Epitaxially Grown hboxNb-SrTiO₃ Thin Films by Laser Ablation Method

    • K. Fukushima
    • S. Shibagaki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 90

12. Structure Simulation on Twisted Boundaries in SrTiO₃ Bicrystals by Molecular Dynamics Calculation

    • M. Nomura
    • N. Ichinose
    • J. Tanaka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 98

13. Giant Piezoresistive Effects in Single Grain Boundaries of Semiconducting Barium Titanate Ceramics*

    • Makoto Kuwabara
    • Hirofumi Matsuda
    • Kouichi Hamamoto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 103

14. Electric Control of the Chemical Reaction in Ceramic–Ceramic Contact Interface—Modeling of the Reaction Scheme

    • Yoshinobu Nakamura
    • Yasundo Ariga
    • Hiroaki Yanagida

    OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 112

15. Effect of Silica Doping on the Electrical Conductivity of 3 mol % Yttria-Stabilized Tetragonal Zirconia Prepared by Colloidal Processing

    • T. Uchikoshi
    • Y. Sakka
    • K. Hiraga

    OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 120

16. TEM, XPS and SIMS Analyzes on Grain Boundary of Lanthanum Chromites

    • Natsuko Sakai
    • Tatsuo Tsunoda
    • masayuki Dokiya

    OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 128

17. Microstructures of Impurity Precipitates in Sintered Alumina used as a Crucible to Anneal Lead Titanate

    • Y. Moriyoshi
    • Y. Shimizu
    • T. Ikegami

    OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 134

18. Electrolytic Formation and Morphology of Biomimetic Apatite Coatings

    • H. Monma
    • O. Nemoto
    • H. Kobayashi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 140