The joint ISAF-ISIF-PFM 2015 conference will address the science and technological developments related to a broad range of functional materials, covering ferroics, pyroelectrics, piezoelectrics, dielectrics, nanocarbons, and their integration to enable new multifunctional devices, including sensors, actuators, transducers, memories, capacitors, electro-optic devices, magnetic devices, medical devices, and energy harvesting and storage devices. The joint forum provided by the ISAF, ISIF and PFM organizations will provide the unique opportunity for a productive interdisciplinary exchange of ideas on multifunctional materials and integrated functionalities among participants from industry, research institutes, and academia.
Conference Themes
Theme 1: Fundamentals of Ferroics and Related Functionalities
- Theory & model related to the compositions, structure, properties, and behaviours of ferroics and related materials
- Ferroic domain structure and engineering
- Electronic conduction behaviours, ionic phenomena, and defects in ferroelectrics
- Surface and interface phenomena in ferroelectric materials
- Relaxor ferroelectrics and disorder effects
- Ferroelectric photovoltaics and photocatalytics
- Size effects on structure and properties
- Multiferroics, antiferroics, and magnetoelectric effects
- Flexoelectricity and nonlinear behaviours
- New ferroelectric and multiferroic materials
- New material-critical functionalities
Theme 2: Composition, Processing and Fabrication of Ferroelectric, Pyroelectric, Piezoelectric, Dielectric Materials, and Related Device Functional Structures
- Composition and processing of bulk ferroelectric, pyroelectric, piezoelectric, and dielectric materials (single crystals, ceramics, glass-ceramics, polymers, composites, liquid crystals, including lead-free compositions)
- Composition and processing technologies for thin films, thick films, multilayer structures, one & two dimensional structures, including lead-free compositions
- Patterning, net-shape forming, self-assembly, micro & nano fabrication
- Novel ferroelectric, pyroelectric, piezoelectric and functional materials, including new compositions, new structure, functionalities from biomaterials, and ferroelectric-like tissues
Theme 3: Characterization of Ferroelectric, Pyroelectric, Piezoelectric and Dielectric materials
- Local phenomena in ferroelectrics by various scanning probe microscopy methods
- Structure and fundamental phenomena in ferroelectrics through X-ray & neutron scattering and diffraction
- Electron diffraction and microscopy of ferroic materials
- Optical spectroscopies for ferroelectric, pyroelectric, piezoelectric and dielectric materials, including Raman, THz wave
- Spectroscopic probing of electronic and electrochemical phenomena at ferroelectric surfaces and interfaces
- Broadband dielectric spectroscopy, dielectric behaviours at high electric field, and non-linear polarization
- Piezoelectric and electromechanical characterization
- Electrochemical strain microscopy
- Novel characterization methods for functional materials’ structure and properties
Theme 4: Properties and Multiple Functionalities Involving Ferroelectrics and Related Materials
- Dielectric properties and nonlinear electrical polarization, including tunable dielectric properties and polarization switching behaviours
- Piezoelectric and electrostrictive properties, phase-change induced strains, photostrictive and photo-induced strain
- Pyroelectric, electrocaloric, and thermoelectric properties.
- Photovoltaic, photocatalytic, and electrochemical effects
- Optical & electro-optic effects, THz in ferroics
- Nonlinear effects, flexoelectric properties
- Multiferroic, antiferroic, and magnetoelectric properties
- Electrical/optical/magnetic/chemical/mechanical interactions and conversions
- Structure-property relationship, and size/interface dependant behaviours
- Properties in harsh condition, such as low temperature, high temperature, high pressure
- Integration and coupling of multiple material functions
- New behaviours observed in functional materials
Theme 5: Science and Technology of Integrated Functionalities and Applications
- Sensors, actuators, and transducers including MEMS involving ferroelectric, antiferroelectric, pyroelectric, piezoelectric, dielectrics, and nano-carbon films (e.g. diamond and graphene)
- Ferroelectrics, antiferroelectrics, pyroelectrics, piezoelectrics, nonlinear dielectrics, and nano-carbons for energy related applications, including energy storage and energy harvesting, and the related competitive alternatives
- Materials and device concepts for established and emerging non-volatile memories (RRAMs, and novel oxides such as RTiO3 and RNiO3 perovskites, correlated electron oxides, and magnetic oxides (spintronics) , Mo(S,Se), graphene/ferroic junction devices)
- Integration of ferroics, pyroelectrics, piezoelectrics and dielectrics in CMOS
- Tunable dielectrics and piezoelectric acoustics (such as SAW, BAW) for RF and high frequency devices
- Multiferroic and magnetoelectric effects for magnetic devices and spintronics
- Quantum theory of dielectric function in mixed media – electronic structure and dielectric properties, including ferroics, pyroelectricity, piezoelectricity, and superconductivity
- Device concepts and applications of new phases in material interfaces and nanolaminates of oxides
- Biomedical applications involving biocompatible ferroics, pyroelectrics, piezoelectrics, nonlinear dielectrics, and other biocompatible materials (e.g., diamond, graphene and polymers)
- Optical & electro-optic applications (optical modulation, signal processing, optical storage, photonic band-gaps, THz wave generation)
- Non-destructive evaluation, condition/environment monitoring, and biomedical imaging (including ultrasonic and photoacoustic imaging) enabled with advanced functional materials
- Other emerging concepts and devices with integrated material functionalities
