Peter K. Davies
Professor and Chair
Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
Honors and Awards: S. Reid Warren Jr. Award for Distinguished Teaching - 2005, Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching - 1998, Fellow of the American Ceramic Society - 1997
Research Expertise: Electronic Materials | Ceramics | Nanostructured Materials
Peter's principal research interests lie in the design and nano-level structure characterization of functional inorganic solids. He is an expert in the synthesis, crystal chemistry, and properties of electronic ceramic materials, and has published seminal papers on the influence of nanoscale atomic ordering on the properties of ceramic resonators used in wireless communications. Peter has also engineered new high response ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials. In his most recent work, Peter discovered the first family of inorganic materials that self assemble into periodic, phase-separated, nano-checkerboard structures.
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Education:
PhD Solid State Chemistry 1981 - Arizona State University
MA Natural Sciences 1978 - Oxford University
BA Chemistry 1975 - New College Oxford University
Recent Publications 
- Nanoscale modulations in (KLa)(CaW)O 6 and (NaLa)(CaW)O 6, Licurse, M.W. | Borisevich, A.Y. | Davies, P.K., Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2012
- Effects of B-site chemistry on BiFeO 3-containing enhanced tetragonality systems, Stein, D.M. | Davies, P.K., Applied Physics Letters, 2011
- Multiple dielectric transitions in the PbTiO 3-Bi(Zn 1/2Ti 1/2)O 3-Bi(Mg 1/2Ti 1/2)O 3 system, Stein, D.M. | Grinberg, I. | Rappe, A.M. | Davies, P.K., Journal of Applied Physics, 2011
- Tunable high Q perovskite dielectrics in the BaO-NiO-Ta 2O 5 system, Thirumal, M. | Davies, P.K., Journal of Materials Science, 2011
- Triclinic and monoclinic structures of SrLaCuNbO 6 and SrLaCuTaO 6 double perovskites, West, D.V. | Davies, P.K., Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2011