Proceedings of the Symposium on Dielectric Materials and Multilayer Electronic Devices and the Symposium on Morphotropic Phase Boundary Phenomena and Perovskite Materials, held April 28 - May 1, 2002, in St. Louis, Missouri, during the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, and the Focused Session on High Strain Piezoelectrics, held April 22-25, 2001, in Indianapolis, Indiana, during the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society.

Ruyan Guo is an electrical engineer and the Robert E. Clarke Endowed Professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio. Guo was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for his contributions to the understanding of polarization phenomena in ferroelectric solid-solution systems.

K. M. Nair is the editor of Morphotropic Phase Boundary Perovskites, High Strain Piezoelectrics, and Dielectric Ceramics, published by Wiley.