The symposium will offer overviews on topics including, but not limited to:

ISAF

• Fundamentals of ferroelectrics and multiferroic materials (theory, modeling, and experiments)

• Processing of piezoelectric crystals, ceramics, thick and thin films, composites, polymers, glass-ceramics, and MLCCs.

• Lead-free dielectric and piezoelectric materials

• Structure characterization and properties of ferroelectric materials (dielectric, piezoelectric, ferroelectric, pyroelectric, electrocaloric, flexoelectric, photovoltaics and photocatalytics, etc.)

• Applications of ferroelectrics (sensing, transducing, thermal imaging, energy harvesting and storage, etc.)

PFM

• Instrumental aspects of PFM, ESM, SS-PFM, and related techniques

• Nanoelectromechanics of materials and PFM/ESM theory

• Ferroelectric tunneling and memristor effect via PFM/ESM

• Multiferroic phenomena on the nanoscale

• Disordered ferroelectrics and mesoscopic effects by PFM

• Ferroelectric data storage and polarization lithography

• Ionic conductors, battery materials, and fuel cells on the nanoscale

• Ferroelectric photovoltaics and tip-enhanced phenomena

• Ferroelectric semiconductors and surface phenomena

• Interface engineering via PFM

• Biocompatible & organic polar materials on the nanoscale

• 1D and 2D nanostructured materials via PFM

ECAPD

• Ultra-thin films and low dimensional nanostructures (including fundamentals, synthesis and characterisation)

• Domains and domain walls (including fundamentals, advanced characterisation, domain wall dynamics, and engineering)

• Multiferroics and magnetoelectrics (including fundamentals, processing, and properties) Piezoelectricity (including high-performance piezoelectric single crystals and thin films, lead-free piezoelectrics, piezoelectric polymers, MEMS & other integrated piezo-devices)

• Materials for energy generation, conversion, and storage (including high-energy density and high-power capacitors, electrocalorics, thermoelectrics, pyroelectrics, piezoelectrics, photovoltaics, etc. and their applications)

• Ferroelectric memory materials & devices (including novel materials, ultra-thin film synthesis and characterisation, CMOS-compatible processes, device integration, nonvolatile memory, and neuromorphic computing applications)

• Advanced characterisation and simulation methods for polar dielectrics (including atomic-scale microscopy techniques, UV/VIS/IR/Raman/NMR, etc. spectroscopy, dielectric and microwave spectroscopy, XRD and neutron diffraction techniques, ab initio simulations, molecular dynamics, artificial intelligence, accelerated material discovery, phase-field method, etc.)