Electroceramics XII - Tentative Schedule

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Sunday, June 13

Time  
14.00-17.00 Training courses, Realfagbygget, Gløshaugen Campus, NTNU
16.00-18.00 Registration, Realfagbygget
18.00-20.00 Reception, Realfagbygget

Monday, June 14

Time Room R2 Room R5 Room R8 Room R9
08.15-09.15 08.15-08.30: Opening of conference, room R1
08.30-09.15: Keynote lecture 1, room R1
09.30-10.30 Session 1
Invited talk
Session 2
Invited talk
Session 3
Invited talk
Session 4
Invited talk
10.30-10.50 Coffee
10.50-12.20 Session 1 continued Session 2 continued Session 3 continued Session 4 continued
12.20-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Session 5 Session 6 Session 7 Session 8
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-18.00 Poster session 1
19.15 Bus departs from hotel to Ringve Museum
19.30 Reception at Ringve Museum

Tuesday, June 15

Time Room R2 Room R5 Room R8 Room R9
08.30-09.15 Keynote lecture
09.30-10.30 Session 9
Invited talk
Session 10
Invited talk
Session 11
Invited talk
Session 12
Invited talk
10.30-10.50 Coffee
10.50-12.20 Session 9 continued Session 10 continued Session 11 continued Session 12 continued
12.20-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Session 13 Session 14 Session 15 Session 16
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-18.00 Poster session 2
19.30 Conference Banquet at Rica Nidelven

Wednesday, June 16

Time Room R2 Room R5 Room R8 Room R9
08.30-09.15 Keynote lecture
09.30-10.30 Session 17
Invited talk
Session 18
Invited talk
Session 19
Invited talk
Session 20
Invited talk
10.30-10.50 Coffee
10.50-12.20 Session 17 continued Session 18 continued Session 19 continued Session 20 continued
12.20-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Session 21 Session 22 Session 23 Session 24
15.30-16.00 Closing of the conference, room R1
19.00 Nidaros Cathedral (Guided tour and short concert)

Thursday, June 17

Time  
10.00 Optional city tour

Download detailed program (updated 02. May) here pdf    Download poster sessions program here pdf

Conference Programme

Ceramic Processing and Basic Science

Ceramic processing is fundamental to the development and exploitation of established and novel Electroceramics. This symposium will focus on recent advances in powder and ceramic processing and the basic science of functional ceramics. Contributions are invited on any aspect of ceramic processing, characterisation or the basic science of the ceramics. The themes will include, but will not be limited to:

  • Powder synthesis; colloidal processes, powder characterisation
  • Shaping, forming and compaction
  • Thick film processing
  • Non-conventional processing routes
  • Sintering processes
  • Microwave, laser, plasma and SHS sintering
  • Microstructure development
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Reaction processes and kinetics
  • Controlling structure, shape and properties
  • Phase transformations
  • Crystallography and crystal chemistry

Thin Films

The theme focuses on functional thin film materials. Thin films are be used in devices but they can also assist our understanding of Materials systems by providing carefully controlled structures that are amenable to analysis by a range of techniques. Low-dimensional materials such as thin films, nanocrystals, nanowires, and nanotubes are at the forefront of materials research. Novel structures composed of multilayers offer new insights into unusual materials’ systems. The physical, chemical and electromagnetic phenomena observed in these systems suggest new application areas by combining e.g.ferroelectric and magnetic properties, or ionic and electronic conductivities.

  • Thin film deposition techniques (sputtering, CVD, PLD, solution methods etc)
  • Low dimensional structures(e.g., heterostructures, anisotropic shapes, and multilayered films)
  • Substrate film interface issues - Misfit stresses and relaxation mechanisms in oxide films
  • Tailoring nanostructures through novel processing
  • Ferroelectric, piezoelectric, magnetic and multiferroic films
  • Metallization for thin film circuits
  • Lithography for functional thin films
  • Characterisation of thin films (X-Ray, high frequency methods, EBSD, EPMA, Raman etc)
  • Applications of thin films (frequency agility microwave materials, THz imaging)

Interfaces

  • Experimental Investigations of Grain Boundaries and Interfaces
  • Chemistry and microstructure of Grain Boundaries
  • Modelling and simulation of Interfaces
  • Kinetics and Stability of Interfaces
  • Electronic and Ionic Transport at interfaces
  • Functional Properties of Interfaces

Modelling

Modelling is now seen as an essential part of materials development providing an important link between theory and experiment and often providing a direction for a particular experiment. As a consequence, modelling and simulation on various length and time scales are a key part of materials’ development.
 
The main theme of the conference is to provide an international forum for the advances of modelling methodologies and for their applications in rapid process and material developments.
 
Contributions are invited for but not limited to the following topics:

  • Microstructure Evolution and Microstructure-Property Relationships
  • Experimental Validation of Models
  • Multiscale Modelling of electroceramic materials
  • Future developments mathematical Multiscale Methods
  • Linking modelling with real applications
  • Modelling of Chemo-mechanical and Physico-mechanical Systems
  • Multiscale Modelling of Multifunctional Materials and Devices

Dielectric Ferroelectric Piezoelectric and Pyroelectric Materials

  • Dielectrics
    • Basic science, capacitor dielectrics, microwave dielectrics, LTCC and tuneable dielectrics
  • Ferroelectrics
    • Basic science, novel materials (including lead-free), thin films and nano-structured materials, piezoelectric and pyroelectric applications
  • Meta-materials
    • Novel composite structures, RF systems, photonic band-gap structures, negative refractive index systems

Multiferroic, Magnetic, Semiconducting and Superconducting Materials

  • Multiferroic materials
    • Defect Chemistry and chemical substitution, phase transitions, composite materials, spintronic device development, applications
  • Magnetic materials
    • Defect chemistry, microstructure development, perovskite manganites, room temperature ferromagnetic semiconductors systems, applications
  • Semiconductors and Superconductors
    • Ceramic superconductors, high-band-gap semiconductors, multifunctional superconductor/magnetic materials, processing, microstructure development, electrical properties

Ionic, Electronic and Mixed Conductors, Fuel Cells, Photocatalysis

  • Materials for Photocatalysis
  • Oxygen Ion, Proton and Mixed Conductors; Conduction Mechanisms, Materials Limitations
  • Electrode Materials and Microstructural Engineering; Electrode Processes and Limitations
  • Ceramic and Metallic Interconnects; Degradation Mechanisms, Coatings, Life Prediction
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Thermal Properties
  • Electrochemical Performance, Performance Enhancement and Stability of Cells and Stacks
  • Reliability and Degradation
  • Surface and Interfacial Reactions; Materials Transport and Electrode Poisoning; Catalytic Degradation

Sensors, Actuators and energy harvesting devices

  • Synthesis and characterization of sensor and detector materials
  • Piezoelectric, ferroelectric and multi-ferroic sensors
  • Novel nano-structured materials for sensors and detectors
  • Novel materials for gas sensors
  • Novel sensing and detection techniques
  • Novel fabrication technologies
  • Novel actuator techniques and structures
  • Integration and applications of smart materials
  • Energy harvesting devices

Varistor and Thermistors

  • Varistors
    • Basic science, microstructure development, defect chemistry, grain boundary electronic structure, novel ZnO-based varistor materials, SnO2-based varistor materials, TiO2-based varistor materials novel materials, thick film applications
  • Thermistors
    • NTC systems, PTC systems, basic science, microstructure development, defect chemistry, grain boundary electronic structure, applications
 
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