November 26 - December 1, 2023
Boston, Massachusetts
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2023 MRS Fall Meeting

Symposium EL13-Multiferroics and Magnetoelectrics

This symposium is focused on the fast-growing field of multiferroics and magnetoelectrics in which two or more ferroic (ferroelectric, ferro/anti-ferro magnetic, ferroelastic, etc.) orders coexist. The cross coupling between the magnetic and electric orders, i.e. magnetoelectric coupling, enables voltage control of spin degrees of freedom and vice verses that is crucial for the applications of ultra-low-power spintronics and magnetic sensors. On the other hand, these materials with interplay among spin, charge, orbit, and lattice degrees of freedom offer a remarkable platform for fundamental studies in materials science and condensed matter physics. Our symposium will highlight the most recent progress of this field including the theory of multiferroic materials, magnetic sensors and antennas, voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy, magnetic memories, magnonics, magnetoelectric heterostructures and nanostructures, and imaging techniques of multiferroics and magnetoelectrics domains. This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together a diverse host of experts across academia, national laboratories and industry to discuss the recent development in theory, synthesis, characterizations, devices as well as the opportunities and challenges in the on-chip integration of multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials. The symposium aims to promote communications and discussions among material scientists, physicists, and electrical engineers for accelerating the development of multiferroic materials for information processing, storage, wireless communication and magnetic sensing applications.

Topics will include:

  • Theory and simulation of magnetoelectric materials
  • Magnetoelectric sensors, antennas, and energy harvesters
  • Voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy
  • Magnetoelectric magnetic memories
  • Magnonics in multiferroics and magnetoelectrics
  • Magnetoelectric heterostructures and nanostructures
  • Advanced imaging techniques for multiferroics and magnetoelectrics

Invited Speakers:

  • Manuel Bibes (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
  • Christian Binek (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA)
  • Longqing Chen (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
  • Sang-Wook Cheong (Rutgers University, USA)
  • Kathrin Dorr (Martin-Luther-Universität-Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
  • Judith Driscoll (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
  • Changbeom Eom (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
  • Manfred Fiebig (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
  • Peter Fischer (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
  • Lingyuan Gao (University of Arkansas, USA)
  • Martina Gerken (Kiel University, Germany)
  • Massimo Ghidini (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
  • Jiamian Hu (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
  • Quanxi Jia (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA)
  • Hwaider Lin (Northeastern University, USA)
  • Ming Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
  • Doru Lupascu (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
  • Jing Ma (Tsinghua University, China)
  • Sasikanth Manipatruni (Intel, USA)
  • Lane Martin (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
  • Jeffrey McCord (University of Kiel, Germany)
  • Julia Mundy (Harvard University, USA)
  • Asuka Namai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Yoshichika Otani (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Michael Page (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
  • Xiaoqing Pan (University of California, Irvine, USA)
  • Andrei Pimenov (Technische Universität Wien, Austria)
  • Christine Selhuber-Unkel (Universität Heidelberg, Germany)
  • Jean-Marc Triscone (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Evgeny Tsymbal (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA)
  • Kang Wang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Symposium Organizers

Tianxiang Nan
Tsinghua Univeristy
Institute of Microelectronics
China

Eckhard Quandt
University of Kiel
Germany

Caroline A. Ross
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
USA

Nian Sun
Northeastern University
USA

Topics

ferroelectricity magnetic properties