Symposium EL07-Emerging Ferroic Materials—Synthesis, Properties and Applications

Ferroic materials with one or more primary ferroic orders (ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism, multiferroicity) exhibit rich physics and great potential for applications in next-generation electronics. Significant research efforts over the past decades have spurred unprecedented advances in the study of these materials. Recent breakthroughs in materials synthesis, characterization, and device fabrication have led to emerging materials and phenomena, including nanomembranes, 2D ferroelectrics, exotic topological structures, and novel high-k dielectrics, etc. These advancements have attracted world-wide interest and opened up a new era toward understanding fundamental ferroic phenomena.

This symposium aims to bring together scientific experts and young scientists with an interest in theory and modeling, synthesis, characterization, and device fabrication of ferroic materials, advancing the fundamental understanding, development of modern experimental techniques, and exploration of new devices and applications. In addition to providing an interdisciplinary platform for sharing and discussing latest advances, this symposium will help in formulating the research opportunities, key challenges, and development pathways for this continuously growing field.

Topics will include:

Advanced synthesis and characterization techniques for ferroic materials
Ferroic thin-films, heterostructures, nanostructures, and membranes
Emerging ferroics: 2D ferroelectrics and high entropy dielectrics
Hafnium oxides and novel high-k dielectrics
Piezoelectric and pyroelectric materials for devices
Bulk magnetoelectric and multiferroic materials
Multiscale theory and modeling of ferroic materials
Voltage control of magnetization and spin textures
Ferroic materials for neuromorphic computing
Ferroic materials for spintronics and memory devices
Magnetoelectric sensors and antennas

Invited Speakers:

Laurent Bellaiche (University of Arkansas, USA)
Manuel Bibes (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
Ying-hao Chu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Amal El-Ghazaly (Cornell University, USA)
Chang-Beom Eom (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
Xia Hong (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA)
Harold Hwang (Stanford University, USA)
Jorge Iniguez (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg)
Lane W. Martin (Rice University, USA)
Dennis G. Meier (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Peter Meisenheimer (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Yuefeng Nie (Nanjing University, China)
Beatriz Noheda (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Bhagwati Prasad (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Ramamoorthy Ramesh (Rice University, USA)
Susan Trolier-Mckinstry (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Nagarajan Valanoor (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Chan-Ho Yang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
Yuewei Yin (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Pu Yu (Tsinghua University, China)