Recent progress in the synthesis of (anti-)ferroic materials and heterostructures has led to the discovery of new physical properties and conceptually new application paradigms for beyond-CMOS computing schemes. In this class of materials, the interplay between charge, spin, lattice, and orbital degrees of freedom leads to a wide range of fascinating quantum phenomena not observed in conventional semiconducting compounds. These include chirality, magnetoelectricity, and systems with multiple order parameters (e.g., multiferroics). Furthermore, recent advances in synthesis have enabled the tailoring of symmetry and competing interactions to yield topologically non-trivial polar and magnetic textures. The beauty and connections of the unifying scientific concepts in materials with electric and/ magnetic order are mutually beneficial and have become a strong motivation for interdisciplinary activities, propelled by the recent developments in theory, synthesis, and characterization.

This symposium focuses on (anti-)ferroics, related boundaries/interfaces and textures rather than excitations. Albeit abstracts that investigate switching kinetics and dynamics in these systems are encouraged. This symposium aims to bring together experts and young scientists with an interest in synthesis and multiscale characterization of controlled (anti-)ferroic materials and interfaces, heterostructures, and nanostructures. The organizers encourage the submission from academic, national lab, and industry researchers who seek to advance the state-of-the-art in bulk and thin film synthesis, engineering of (anti-)ferroic order with strain, interfaces, defects, disorder and scaling/dimension, spectroscopic and time-domain measurements of ferroic behavior.

chemical vapor deposition (CVD) (deposition) epitaxy molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) operando scanning probe microscopy (SPM) scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM)