Main Topics for EMF-15 and PLU-7
Materials
- Proper ferroelectrics, improper and hybrid ferroelectrics, and antiferroelectric materials
- Relaxors
- Liquid crystals
- Piezoelectrics and lead-free piezoelectrics
- Multiferroics and applications
- Thin films and heterostructures
- Ferroelectric polymers, composites, organic ferroelectrics and antiferroelectrics
- New polar materials: 2D ferroelectrics, CMOS-compatible ferroelectrics and other
Processing & Characterisation
- Single crystal, ceramic, thin film and membrane processing
- Structural characterisation of bulk ferroelectric materials
- Local structure, defects and disorder
- Atomic force and high-resolution electron microscopy
- Progress in experimental techniques
Theoretical Approaches & Simulations
- Theory and simulations
- First-principles and second-principles methods
- Machine learning for advanced ferroelectric materials: theory and experiment
Phase Transitions & Ferroic Phenomena
- Phase transitions, critical phenomena and quantum effects in ferroics
- Topological polar structures
- Ferroelasticity and flexoelectricity
- Caloric effects
Spectroscopy & Light-Matter Interactions
- Dielectric spectroscopy of ferroics
- Light-induced phenomena, Raman and Brillouin spectroscopy
- Inelastic X-ray and neutron scattering
Energy Storage & Conversion
- Antiferroelectrics for energy storage and conversion applications
- Ferroics for energy storage
- Photovoltaic ferroics
Device Applications & Emerging Technologies
- Ferroelectric-based memristive devices
- Piezotronics and photo-piezotronics
- Catalysis applications and free-standing slabs
- Transport phenomena in ferroelectrics
- Applications in biomedicine and biomedical engineering
- Ferroelectrics and antiferroelectrics in miscellaneous branches of science