Piezoelectric, Ferroelectric/Multiferroic Materials & Components

Piezoelectric and ferroelectric/multiferroic materials play an important role in various kinds of modern electronic devices, such as sensors, transducers and piezoelectric actuators. Following sustained research efforts over the past decades, piezoelectric and ferroelectric/multiferroic materials are continuing to provide an ever-changing landscape with exciting developments. From the viewpoint of environmental protection on Earth, high-performance lead-free piezoelectric ceramics are one of the most urgent demands, which have stimulated huge amounts of related materials research in past decades. At the same time, driven by a combination of new experimental and theoretical tools, research on ferroelectric and multiferroic materials has made great progress. For example, breakthroughs have been made in bulk and nanoscale ferroic materials, including the voltage control of nanomagnetism, the emergence of robust ferroelectricity in strained ultrathin nanoscale gate dielectrics, the stabilization and manipulation of topological states in oxide ferroics, which represent the frontier in the understanding of quantum phenomena of matter. Furthermore ferroelectric and multiferroic materials are expected to produce revolutionary applications in many technological fields, such as electronics, information, sensing, actuation and even new neuromorphic computing, and artificial intelligence in the future. Many international governments (such as the U.S. Department of Energy, etc.) and companies (such as Intel, Samsung, etc.) have invested a great deal of effort in striving for scientific and technological breakthroughs that will in turn replace the existing traditional electronic material systems and processes. Chinese scientists have also made important contributions in this field. This symposium will focus on recent developments in the physics, materials science and applications of piezoelectric, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials and devices.

Proposed sessions

ª Fundamentals of ferroelectrics and piezoelectrics

ª High-performance lead-free ferroelectric/piezoelectric ceramics

ª Ferroelectric/piezoelectric films and composites

ª New Frontiers in single-phase ferroelectrics and multiferroics

ª Magnetoelectric and multiferroic thin films and nanostructures

ª Theory of ferroic-ordering and magnetoelectric coupling, and machine learning methods

ª Advanced fabrication processes for ferroelectric/piezoelectric materials and components

ª Characterization techniques and property-structure relationship studies of ferroelectric/multiferroic
materials

ª Emerging applications of piezoelectric and ferroelectric/multiferroic materials and devices

Organizers

- Jing-Feng Li (Points of Contact), Tsinghua University, China, jingfeng@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

- Jianguo Zhu, Sichuan University, China

- Jing Ma, Tsinghua University, China

- Guorong Li, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

- Haibo Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

- Yaojin Wang, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

- Shuai Dong, Southeast University, China

- Wei Ren, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

- Jiamian Hu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

- Soonil Lee, Changwon National University, Korea

- Satoshi Wada, Yamanashi University, Japan

- Shujun Zhang, University of Wollongong, Australia

- Massimo Ghidini, University of Parma, Italy/Diamond Light Source, UK

- Zuo-Guang Ye, Simon Fraser University, Canada

- Alexei A. Bokov, Simon Fraser University, Canada

- Rattikorn Yimnirun, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Thailand

- Hajime Nagata, Tokyo University of Science, Japan

- Daeyong Jeong, Inha University, Korea

- John Daniels, University of New South Wales, Australia

- Jiangyu Li, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Point of Contact Assistant

* Liyu Wei, Tsinghua University, China, weiliyu@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
cc: jingfeng@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Keynote Speakers

To be confirmed

Invited Speakers