December 1 - 6, 2019
Boston, Massachusetts
2019 MRS Fall Meeting

Symposium EL04-Emerging Chalcogenide Electronic Materials—From Theory to Applications

The modern information age has been powered by covalent semiconductors such as silicon and III-Vs. Despite this success, harnessing phenomena such as magnetism, superconductivity, metal-insulator transitions, ferroelectricity, etc. (and coupled combinations thereof) for future applications requires a thorough understanding of electronic materials with varying degrees of ionic bonding. Chalcogenide electronic materials feature bonding that is intermediate between covalent semiconductors (such as silicon) and ionic materials (such as oxides and halides). This symposium will bring together scientists and engineers from academia, national labs and industry to discuss the status and the outlook for research and applications of emerging chalcogenide electronic materials, with an emphasis on the common challenges and opportunities in the field of complex-structured chalcogenide semiconductors. The symposium will cover a wide range of studies including theory, materials synthesis and characterization, devices, and applications.

This symposium will emphasize work on sulfides, selenides, and tellurides, and multi-anionic systems. Work on oxides will be included as it relates to chalcogenides more broadly. For instance, this symposium would be an appropriate home for work on layered oxy-chalcogenide materials that are of interest for superconductivity and thermoelectricity, or for anion alloys that are of interest for engineering carrier-selective contacts.

Topics will include:

  • Computational discovery of new chalcogenide materials
  • Advanced computational approaches to describe physical and chemical properties of chalcogenides: from atomistic to continuum approaches
  • Novel synthesis methods for chalcogenides: from nanostructures to bulk crystals
  • Advanced characterization tools to understand physical and chemical properties of chalcogenides
  • Applications of chalcogenides in computing, photonics, sensing, and energy
  • Emergent and correlated phenomena in chalcogenides, including density waves, superconductivity, ferroelectricity, and magnetism

Invited Speakers:

  • Joan Redwing (The Pennsylvnia State University, USA)
  • Jiwoong Park (University of Chicago, USA)
  • Ram Seshadri (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
  • Dmitri Talapin (University of Chicago, USA)
  • Aron Walsh (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
  • Han Wang (University of Southern California, USA)
  • Mercouri Kanatzidis (Northwestern University, USA)
  • Ritesh Agarwal (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
  • Clara Baleine (Lockheed Martin, USA)
  • Evangelos Eleftheriou (IBM Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Roman Engel-Herbert (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
  • Elif Ertekin (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA)
  • Yuval Golan (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
  • Dan Hewak (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
  • Jenny Hoffman (Harvard University, USA)
  • David Johnson (University of Oregon, USA)
  • Janet Macdonald (Vanderbilt University, USA)
  • Stephen McDonnell (University of Virginia, USA)
  • Jayakanth Ravichandran (University of Southern California, USA)

Symposium Organizers

Rafael Jaramillo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
USA

Laura Schelhas
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
USA

Vladan Stevanovic
Colorado School of Mines
USA

Vanessa Wood
ETH Zürich
Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
Switzerland

Topics

dielectric electronic material ferroelectric Magnetic optoelectronic photovoltaic piezoelectric semiconducting sensor thermoelectric