IEEE International Symposium on the Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF 2013)

Key Topics

• Bulk Materials (Ceramics, Single crystals, Polymers and Liquid crystals & composites)
• Applications (Energy harvesting devices, Medical transducers, sensors & devices in harsh environments, High power ultrasound in medicine & materials science, Novel applications (connectorless power supplies using piezos, etc.)), Actuators, MRI Concepts (Dielectrics for focusing and etc.)
• Dielectrics (Ultra high-K materials, Capacitors, RF and THz materials & properties)
• Conduction Phenomena, Point Defects & Nanoionics (Multilevel ferroelectric devices, Electroresistive and neuromorphic systems, Fundamental aspects of ionic motion & defects in functional oxides, Ferroelectric and magnetoresistive barriers, Fuel cells and air batteries and Energy storage systems)
• Ferroelectrics & Antiferroelectrics for Energy Applications (Ferroelectric photovoltaics, Electrocaloric materials & devices, Thermoelectric materials and devices)
• Domain Engineering (Electrooptical materials and Materials with enhanced properties)
• Multiferroics and Magnetoelectric Effects
• Ferroelectric Memory Materials & Devices
• New Characterization Techniques (Non-contact scanning probe microsocpies, Piezo-response force microscopy, Focused X-ray microscopy, Optical near field imaging and Broadband dielectric spectroscopy)
• Nanoscale Phenomena (Nanostructure and size effects on piezo-/ferroelectric properties)
• Optical Phenomena (Storage devices, Signal processing, Photonic band-gaps and Periodic poling)
• Novel Advances in Ferroelectrics
• Pyroelectric Materials and Devices
• Piezoelectricity (Lead-based piezo-ceramics, High-performance piezoelectric single crystals, MEMS and other integrated piezo-devices and Lead-free piezoelectrics)
• Theory and Modelling (Phase transitions, Domain structure, Density functional theory, Critical phenomena and First-principles calculations)
• Relaxor Ferroelectrics/Dielectrics
• Ferroelectric Photovoltaics (photostriction, Bulk and barrier photovoltaic effect, photoconductivity, photopoling, etc.)
• Thick & Thin Films (Preparation, characterization & applications)