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16:00 - 18:00
REGISTRATION
18:00 - 20:00
WELCOME RECEPTION
07:30 - 08:15
REGISTRATION WITH COFFEE AND PASTRY
08:15 - 10:30
Session 1
08:15 - 09:00
Auditorium
Opening of the conferences
09:00 - 09:45
Auditorium
Four decades of development towards an efficient technology

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 for the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity

09:45 - 10:30
Auditorium
Perovskite crystallography - a personal journey

Oxford University, Great Britain

10:30 - 11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:30
Session 2
11:00 - 11:45
Auditorium
In search of electrostatic happiness

École Polytechnique Fédérale, Zürich, Switzerland

11:45 - 12:30
Auditorium
Future-proof computing with ferroelectrics

University of Groningen, Netherlands

12:30 - 14:00
LUNCH BREAK
14:00 - 16:00
Session 3
14:00 - 16:00
Auditorium
In Memoriam: Professor Ekhard Salje
14:00 – 14:30 Gustau Catalan Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), Spain
14:30 – 14:45 Annette Bussmann-Holder

Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart,

Germany
14:45 – 15:00 Mike Glazer Oxford University, Great Britain
15:00 – 15:15 Jack Eckstein University of Cambridge, Great Britain
15:15 – 15:30 Marin Alexe University of Warwick, Great Britain
15:30 – 15:45 Marty Gregg

The Queen's University Belfast,

Northern Ireland
15:45 – 16:00 Wilfried Schranz University of Vienna, Austria
14:00 - 14:30
Ballroom A
New Dimensions in Polar Topologies

CNRS and Université de Strasbourg, France

14:30 - 15:00
Ballroom A
Ferroelectric domain structure modified by top electrodes: imaging buried domains by nano-diffraction

Lund University, Sweden

15:00 - 15:30
Ballroom A
Control of ferroelectric domain walls– microscopic insights from ab initio based simulations

ICAMS, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

15:30 - 16:00
Ballroom A
Nanoscale Domain and Domain-Wall Analysis of LiNbxTa1-xO3 (LNT) Solid Solutions using Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and Nonlinear Optical Micro/Spectroscopy

Dresden University of Technology, Germany

16:00 - 16:30
COFFEE BREAK
16:30 - 18:00
Session 4
16:30 - 17:00
Auditorium
Structural Flexibility, Phase Transitions, and Structure–Property Relationships in Hybrid Molecular Metal Halides

Institute of Low Temperature

and Structure Research, PAN, Poland

17:00 - 17:30
Auditorium
Phase transitions and origin of polar order in lead halide perovskites

Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, PAN, Poland

17:30 - 18:00
Auditorium
Incipient Ferroelectricity and Improper Ferroelasticity in Lead Halide Perovskites

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

16:30 - 17:00
Ballroom A
Using ferroelastic and ferroelectric domain walls to control thermal conductivity

CNRS, Tours, France

17:00 - 17:30
Ballroom A
Probing the nature of nanoscale domain walls in ferroelectric superlattices

University of Warwick, United Kingdom

17:30 - 18:00
Ballroom A
Effects of Crystal and Domain Structures on Piezoelectric and Dielectric Properties of PMN-PT Single Crystals

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

18:00 - 19:30
POSTER SESSION - Main Hall
08:00 - 09:00
REGISTRATION WITH COFFEE AND PASTRY
09:00 - 10:30
Session 1
09:00 - 09:45
Auditorium
From homogeneous phases to inhomogeneous polar textures in ferroelectric perovskites and related compounds: a theoretical perspective

University of Liège, Belgium

09:45 - 10:30
Auditorium
Poles, dipoles, species, walls and skyrmions in ferroics

Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic

09:00 - 09:30
Ballroom A
Spin-orbitronics and charge-spin conversion: a new playground for ferroelectricity

University of Cagliari, Italy

09:30 - 10:00
Ballroom A
Giant piezoelectricity driven by the Thouless pump in conjugated polymers

National Research Council CNR-SPIN, Rome, Italy

10:00 - 10:30
Ballroom A
Domain glass dynamics in KSCN and RbSCN

University of Vienna,  Austria 

10:30 - 11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:30
Session 2
11:00 - 11:45
Auditorium
Domain Structures, Domain Wall Mobility, and Microstructure

Pen State University, United States of America

11:45 - 12:30
Auditorium
Twisted Ferroelectrics

The Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

11:00 - 11:30
Ballroom A
Flexoelectricity and surface ferroelectricity of water ice

Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain

11:30 - 12:00
Ballroom A
Piezoelectric ceramics in aqueous environments: functional or fragile?

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Trondheim, Norway

12:00 - 12:30
Ballroom A
Nanoscale ferroelectrics for microwave applications in antennas and pyroelectric harvesters

National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnologies, Bucharest, Romania

12:30 - 14:00
LUNCH BREAK
14:00 - 16:00
Session 3
14:00 - 14:30
Auditorium
Microstructural Phase Transitions in Energy Storage Antiferroelectric Oxides

Xiamen University, China

14:30 - 15:00
Auditorium
Structural instabilities in perovskites under high pressure: an update

University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

15:00 - 15:30
Auditorium
Phonon Anharmonicity and Mode Softening in Cubic Cs2AgBiBr6

NIST Centre for Neutron Research, USA

15:30 - 16:00
Auditorium
Omnipresent electrostriction
14:00 - 14:30
Ballroom A
Survival guide to hafnia ferroelectrics

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg

14:30 - 15:00
Ballroom A
Exploring epitaxial stabilisation in electrode-free hafnia-zirconia thin films

Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, Spain

15:00 - 15:30
Ballroom A
Developments and challenges in ferroelectric doped HfO2-based devices
15:30 - 15:45
Ballroom A
Exploring the use of novel bottom electrodes in epitaxial hafnia-based films

CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

15:45 - 16:00
Ballroom A
Investigating the Impact of Electrode Materials on the Ferroelectric Properties of Thickness Scaled HfxZr1-xO2 Films

NaMLab gGmbH, Germany

14:00 - 14:30
Ballroom B
A New Playground for Ferroic Order and Electronic Properties in the Layered Tungsten Bronzes [Ba(PO4)2]WmO3m-3

CNRS Institut NEEL, Grenoble, France

14:30 - 14:45
Ballroom B
The Essence of Three: Navigating the Interplay of Multiple Ferroic Orders in Multiferroics

Le Mans University, IMMM - Institut des Molécules et Matériaux du Mans, France

14:45 - 15:00
Ballroom B
Magnetoelectric Decoupling in Bismuth Ferrite

Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

15:00 - 15:15
Ballroom B
Epitaxial stabilization and multiferroic properties of pseudocubic perovskite BaMnO3 films

Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

15:15 - 15:30
Ballroom B
Tunable Luminescence and Structural Insights in Lead-Free 0D Manganese Bromide Hybrids

Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland

15:30 - 15:45
Ballroom B
Visible light effects on photo-ferroelectric/magnetostrictive PMN-PT/Ni multiferroic heterostructure

Consorci C.E.E. Lab Llum Sincrotro, Spain

15:45 - 16:00
Ballroom B
Ferroelectric Switching in BiFeO₃: From Ab-initio Mechanisms to Machine-Learned Models for Sustainable Electronics

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg

16:00 - 16:30
COFFEE BREAK
16:30 - 18:00
Session 4
16:30 - 17:00
Auditorium
Nanoscale mapping of electrothermal effects in ferroelectrics using Scanning Thermal Microscopy

The Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

17:00 - 17:30
Auditorium
Electrocaloric oxides for heating and cooling applications

University of Cambridge, Great Britain

17:30 - 18:00
Auditorium
The role of the flexo-chemical strains in the emergence of multiple-degenerated domain structures in nanosized ferroelectrics

Institute of Physics of NAS, Ukraine

16:30 - 17:00
Ballroom A
Stabilizing ferroelectricity in ultrathin films with layered ferroelectrics

CNRS Institut Néel, Grenoble, France

17:00 - 17:30
Ballroom A
Ferroelectric platforms for carbon capture

National Institute of Materials Physics

Bucharest-Magurele, Romania

17:30 - 18:00
Ballroom A
Mixology of hybrid perovskites

Vilnius University, Lithuania

16:30 - 16:45
Ballroom B
Phase Transitions and Polarization Dynamics in BiAlO3: An Atomistic Investigation

Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences , Czech Republic

16:45 - 17:00
Ballroom B
Topological Polarization Patterns in Freestanding BaTiO₃ Films

Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences,  Czech Republic

17:00 - 17:15
Ballroom B
Temperature-dependent dielectric and piezoelectric properties of PbTiO₃ from large-scale simulations

FZU - Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences , Czech Republic

17:15 - 17:30
Ballroom B
Pyramidal charged domain walls in ferroelectric BiFeO3

FZU - Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences , Czech Republic

17:30 - 17:45
Ballroom B
Weyl Points and Wave Propagation on Ferroelectrics-Based Acoustic Metamaterials

Bilkent University, Turkey

 

 

18:00 - 19:30
POSTER SESSION - Main Hall

Topics

  • Ferroelectric polymers, composites, organic ferroelectrics and antiferroelectrics

  • Light-induced phenomena, Raman and Brillouin spectroscopy

  • Piezoelectrics and lead-free piezoelectrics

  • Proper ferroelectrics, improper and hybrid ferroelectrics, and antiferroelectric materials

  • Single crystal, ceramic, thin film and membrane processing

  • Ferroelectrics and antiferroelectrics in miscellaneous branches of science

08:00 - 09:00
Registration with coffee and pastry
09:00 - 10:30
Session 1
09:00 - 09:45
Auditorium
Photoferroelectric phenomena: the fast, the slow, and the ugly

Catalan Institute of Nanoscience  and Nanotechnology (ICN2), Spain

09:45 - 10:30
Auditorium
New twists in the ferroelectric tale: investigating nanoscale polarisation textures and emergent functional properties

University of Geneva, Switzerland

09:00 - 09:30
Ballroom A
How fast is actually „fast”? On the kinetics of thermally-driven second harmonic generation switching

Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland

09:30 - 10:00
Ballroom A
Nonlinear dynamics of 2D CuInP2S6 ferrielectric and 3D Sn2P2S6 ferroelectric in term of the concept of a “ferron”.

Uzhhorod National University, Uzhhorod, Ukraine

10:00 - 10:30
Ballroom A
Enhanced photorefractive response in co-doped Sn₂P₂S₆ ferroelectric crystals

Uzhhorod National University, Ukraine

10:30 - 11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:30
Session 2
11:00 - 11:45
Auditorium
PbTiO3 , PbZrO3 , PbHfO3 : Do they all have a common polar ground state?

Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany

11:45 - 12:30
Auditorium
Extended defects in the surface region of ABO3 oxides with perovskite structure
11:00 - 11:30
Ballroom A
Phase transitions in PbHf1-xSnxO3 single crystals revisited.
11:30 - 12:00
Ballroom A
Enhancing the efficiency of acousto-optic diffraction in optically active crystals
12:00 - 12:30
Ballroom A
Electronic structure and electric and magnetic properties of brownmillerites, illustrated using the Ca2Fe2-xAlxO5 prototypical compound

Institute of Molecular Physics PAN, Poznań, Poland

12:30 - 14:00
LUNCH BREAK
14:00 - 16:00
Session 3
14:00 - 14:30
Auditorium
Surfaces of ferroelectric materials imaged at the atomic scale

Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

14:30 - 15:00
Auditorium
Ferroelectricity in perovskite oxides: probing bulk and surface polarization

Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

15:00 - 15:30
Auditorium
Probing complex polar order and structural characteristics in ferroelectrics down to the atomic scale

CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay, France

15:30 - 16:00
Auditorium
Inducing an insulator-metal transition in the surface layer of BaTiO3 by thermal reduction

Forschungszentrum Zentrum, Jülich GmbH, Germany

14:00 - 14:30
Ballroom A
Domains in curved ferroelectrics

University College London, United Kingdom

14:30 - 15:00
Ballroom A
Phonomagnetism in quantum paraelectrics

Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic

15:00 - 15:30
Ballroom A
Solid solution of K1-xLixTaO3 – from quantum paraelectric to ferroelectric

Institute of Molecular Physics PAN, Poznań, Poland

15:30 - 16:00
Ballroom A
Tailoring topological polar textures via inhomogeneous and time-dependent electric fields

Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

14:00 - 14:15
Ballroom B
Spark Plasma Texturing as a Method to Enhance Dielectric Breakdown Strength of Barium Strontium Titanate Ceramics

University of Aveiro, Portugal

14:15 - 14:30
Ballroom B
A Highly Electrostrictive A2BX4-type Hybrid 2D Perovskite Ferroelectric and The Utility of its Composite Piezoelectric Nanogenerator in Wireless Mat-Sensor Technology

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India

14:30 - 14:45
Ballroom B
First Observation of Topological Polar Vortices Within Ferroelectric Interfaces

Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

14:45 - 15:00
Ballroom B
Dynamical Manipulation of Polar Topologies from Acoustic Phonon Excitations

University of Liege, Belgium

15:00 - 15:15
Ballroom B
Elucidating the properties of ferroelectric interfaces hosting non-zero polar divergence

Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

15:15 - 15:30
Ballroom B
Ion segregation in the surface layer of the lead hafnate single crystal

University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

15:30 - 15:45
Ballroom B
Spin-electric effects in quantum paraelectrics

Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

15:45 - 16:00
Ballroom B
Thermal Cycling-Induced Dielectric and Optical Changes in Methylhydrazinium Lead Bromide

Wrocław University of Science and Technology,  Poland

16:00 - 16:30
COFFEE BREAK
16:30 - 18:00
Session 4
16:30 - 17:00
Auditorium
Nonlinear photocarrier dynamics and emergent pyroelectric effects in SrTiO3 near the quantum paraelectric regime

University of Warwick, Great Britain

17:00 - 17:30
Auditorium
Complex couplings in ferroelectrics: novel nitride ferroelectrics and perovskite oxide superlattices

University of Arkansas, United States of America

17:30 - 18:00
Auditorium
Phase diagram and electrocaloric effect of calcium-doped lead scandium tantalate

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg

16:30 - 17:00
Ballroom A
Adventures in Bismuth Ferrite

School of Chemistry and Forensic Science, University of Kent, Great Britain

17:00 - 17:30
Ballroom A
Engineering porosity in BaTiO₃-based ceramics for tunable functional properties and energy harvesting applications

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania

17:30 - 18:00
Ballroom A
Accessing negative pressure states by helium implantation for functionality tuning

CRISMAT, University of Caen, CNRS, ENSICAEN, France

16:30 - 17:00
Ballroom B
Noncollinear boundaries in up-up-down-down antiferroelectrics and antiferromagnetics

Université de Liège, Belgium

17:00 - 17:15
Ballroom B
Can the Ferroelectric Soft Mode Trigger an Antiferromagnetic Phase Transition?

FZU - Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

17:15 - 17:30
Ballroom B
The dielectric, ferroelectric, and piezoelectric properties of BaTi1-xSnxO3 ceramics prepared by the solid-state method

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi , Romania

17:30 - 17:45
Ballroom B
Too Big to Be Boring: Methylhydrazinium as a Polarity Inducer in Halide Perovskite

Wroclaw University of Science and Technology , Poland

18:00 - 19:30
POSTER SESSION - Main Hall

Topics

  • Multiferroics and applications

  • Phase transitions, critical phenomena and quantum effects in ferroics

  • Theory and simulations

  • First-principles and second-principles methods

  • Ferroelasticity and flexoelectricity

  • Machine learning for advanced ferroelectric materials: theory and experiment

  • Thin films and heterostructures

  • Transport phenomena in ferroelectrics

08:00 - 09:00
REGISTRATION WITH COFFEE AND PASTRY
09:00 - 10:30
Session 1
09:00 - 09:45
Auditorium
Mobile charges localisation in ferroelectrics: towards novel properties

Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux, France

09:45 - 10:30
Auditorium
Off to new adventures in hyper-, anti-, and improper ferroelectrics

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

10:30 - 11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:30
Session 2
11:00 - 11:45
Auditorium
The appearance of polar nature at antiphase boundaries in antiferroelectrics

Institute of Science, Tokyo, Japan

11:45 - 12:30
Auditorium
Session commemorating Bożena Hilczer

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01411594.2025.2516953#d1e80

 

 

11:45 – 12:00 Annette Bussmann-Holder Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany
12:00 – 12:15 Zbigniew Trybuła Institute of Molecular Physics PAN, Poland
12:15 – 12:30 Bartłomiej Andrzejewski Institute of Molecular Physics PAN, Poland
11:00 - 11:30
Ballroom A
Mixed order-disorder and displacive ferroelectric phase transitions in barium titanate based ceramics

Vilnius University, Lithuania

11:30 - 12:00
Ballroom A
What we learn from pressure testing of hybrid materials.

University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

12:00 - 12:30
Ballroom A
Broad band frequency measurements of advanced materials

Vilnius University, Lithuania

12:30 - 14:00
LUNCH BREAK
14:00 - 16:00
Session 3
14:00 - 14:30
Auditorium
Antiferroelectrics: beyond their usual applications

CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay, France

14:30 - 15:00
Auditorium
Searching for new antiferroelectrics

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg

15:00 - 15:30
Auditorium
Stabilising antiferroelectricity in PbZrO3 thin films using epitaxial tensile strain

CNRS, Laboratoire Albert Fert, Palaiseau, France

15:30 - 16:00
Auditorium
Is it possible to engineer antiferroelectricity?

Université Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec, CNRS, France

14:00 - 14:30
Ballroom A
Chicken or Framework? What Really Drives Order–Disorder Transitions in Hybrid Perovskites

Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland

14:30 - 15:00
Ballroom A
Phosphate-bonding as a preparation method for ferroelectric and magnetoelectric ceramics

Vilnius University, Lithuania

15:00 - 15:30
Ballroom A
Nonlinear piezoelectric response of lead-based and lead-free perovskite ceramics enhanced by relaxor disorder

Jožef Stefan Institute, Lublana, Slovenia

15:30 - 16:00
Ballroom A
Chemistry and polar local structure in lead-based perovskites

Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic

14:00 - 14:30
Ballroom B
Polarization switching induced by charge injection at interfaces

National Institute of Materials Physics, Măgurele, Romania

14:30 - 14:45
Ballroom B
Crossover from ferroelectric relaxor to canonical relaxor behaviour in Zr-doped BaTiO3-based ceramics and its consequences for the Electrocaloric Effect’

Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey

14:45 - 15:00
Ballroom B
Antiferroelectric piezocatalysts: a new research branch

 Université Paris-Saclay, France

15:00 - 15:15
Ballroom B
Polarization Vortices in a Ferromagnetic Metal via Twistronics

Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain

15:15 - 15:30
Ballroom B
Ferroelectric Domain Geometry as a Key to Tunable Analog FeFETs for Neuromorphic Computing

Institute of Plasma Physics of Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

15:30 - 15:45
Ballroom B
Antimony Sulphoiodide Nanocomposite-Based Piezoelectric Sensors for Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Traffic Monitoring

Silesian University of Technology, Poland

15:45 - 16:00
Ballroom B
Reinforcement Learning-Assisted Ferroelectric Domain Wall Design Using a Machine Learning Phase-Field Surrogate

INSA, Lyon, France

16:00 - 16:30
COFFEE BREAK
16:30 - 17:45
Session 4
16:30 - 17:00
Auditorium
Views into atomic modulations of NaNbO3-based antiferroelectric ceramics

Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

17:00 - 17:30
Auditorium
NaNbO₃: The lord of the tilts

Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic

17:30 - 17:45
Auditorium
Influence of Sr/Sn substitution on the structural and electrical properties of NaNbO3-based antiferroelectric ceramics for energy storageInfluence of Sr/Sn substitution on the structural and electrical properties of NaNbO3-based antiferroelectric ceramics f

Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU), Czech Republic

16:30 - 17:00
Ballroom A
Efficient electrodes for super-capacitor from industrial waste for energy storage applications

Jan Długosz University, Częstochowa, Poland

17:00 - 17:30
Ballroom A
In situ monitoring of Ag-BaTiO3 CerMet sintering process. Tayloring the metacomposite properties by microstructural design

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania

16:30 - 16:45
Ballroom B
The Transition-Metal Pentachalcogenides material class as topological insulators: Weyl points, electronic structures and Van Hove singularities

Bilkent University, Turkey

16:45 - 17:00
Ballroom B
Tuning Ferroelectric Properties of Bismuth Ferrite Solar Cells

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Material Research Center for Energy Systems (MZE) Light Technology Institute (LTI), Germany

17:00 - 17:15
Ballroom B
A Brownmillerite phase map for predicting new polar structures

University of Durham, United Kingdom

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