Call for Papers

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Optoelectronic and quantum materials play pivotal roles in modern technologies, addressing the escalating demands of computing, data storage, and energy efficiency. As scrutiny intensifies, a profound understanding of these materials — from synthesis to device integration and operation — becomes imperative. This symposium serves as a convergence point for researchers across multiple domains, emphasizing the need for advanced characterization tools. Characterization techniques, capable of probing material properties under in situ and operando conditions with high spatial, temporal, energy, and momentum resolutions, are becoming essential. The symposium seeks to foster collaborations among diverse communities including material synthesis, device physics, optical spectroscopy, structural characterization, and materials theory. Our focus is to explore new frontiers in advanced characterizations of emerging optoelectronic and quantum materials, ranging from perovskite-inspired systems to quantum-confined materials and two-dimensional systems. The symposium underscores the synergy achieved through innovative combinations of various optical spectroscopies, scanning probe tools, synchrotron facilities, and machine learning techniques.

Topics will include:

• Optical techniques for photophysical investigations, including advanced spectroscopies, nonlinear approaches and pump-probe methods
• X-ray techniques, including X-ray diffraction, fluorescence, and scattering, coherent techniques and time-resolved approaches
• Electron techniques (ARPES and ultrafast electron microscopy)
• Advanced imaging techniques, including SNOM, STM, AFM
• Multimodal methodologies that combine multiple complementary probes
• Operando characterizations in device environments
• In-situ and high-throughput approaches for materials discovery and synthesis
• Novel methodologies for data analysis including machine learning
• Polaron, hot carrier and exciton dynamics
• Electron-lattice coupling
• Defects, lattice distortion, and symmetry breaking
• Light-induced phase changes in quantum materials
• Chiral properties and chirality-induced phenomena
• Electronic, magnetic, and magneto-optical properties
• Catalytic properties and activities

Invited Speakers (tentative):

• Matthew Beard (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)
• Annalisa Bruno (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• Karena Chapman (Stony Brook University, The State University of New York, USA)
• Paul Evans (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
• David Ginger (University of Washington, USA)
• Peijun Guo (Yale University, USA)
• Laura Herz (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
• Bin Hu (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)
• Libai Huang (Purdue University, USA)
• Xinfeng Liu (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Xinhui Lu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
• David Mitzi (Duke University, USA)
• Fabian Mooshammer (Universität Regensburg, Germany)
• Wanyi Nie (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA)
• Honglie Ning (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• Akshay Rao (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
• Jian Shi (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
• Andrej Singer (Cornell University, USA)
• Joseph Spellberg (The University of Chicago, USA)
• Carolin Sutter-Fella (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
• Z. Valy Vardeny (The University of Utah, USA)
• Kaifeng Wu (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Qing Zhang (Peking University, China)
• Xiaoyang Zhu (Columbia University, USA)

Symposium Organizers