Scope

The scientific programme of the 10-th International Symposium on Ferroic Domains and Micro- to Nanoscopic Structures was focused on:

The official language of the conference was English.

For a list of confirmed speakers for the PFM workshop, see the PFM section.

Schedule

Technical programme of ISFD-10 symposium was scheduled from Monday Sept. 20 morning till Friday Sept. 25, 14:00. The parallel PFM workshop started on Wednesday Sept. 22 at 11:15 and ended on Friday Sept. 25 at 14:00. Friday afternoon was reserved for optional tours.

 Sunday
Sept 19
Monday
Sept 20
Tuesday
Sept 21
Wednesday
Sept 22
Thursday
Sept 23
Friday
Sept 24
8:50–9:00 Opening    
9:00–10:30 Session 1Session 5Session 9Session ASession E
10:30–11:00 CoffeeCoffeeCoffeeCoffeeCoffee
11:00–13:00 Session 2Session 6Session 10Session BSession F
13:00–14:40 LunchLunchLunchLunchLunch
14:40–16:30 Session 3Session 7 Session CExcursions
16:30–17:00 Tea timeTea timeTea timeTea time
17:00–18:00 Session 4Session 8Poster session IISession D
18:00–19:20Registration
Evening programmeWelcome coctailPoster session IConcertConference dinner  

Programme of the ISFD-10 symposium

Sunday, September 19
18:00–19:30Registration at Kaiserstejnsky Palace
(Malostranske namesti 23/37, Praha 1)
19:00–20:00 Welcome coctail
Monday, September 20
8:50Opening
 SESSION 1 (9:00–10:30; chair J. Petzelt)
FERROIC DOMAIN PHYSICS IN PERSPECTIVE
9:00L. M. Eng (Dresden)
Quo vadis, ferroics?
9:45N. Setter (Lausanne)
Domain-walls as functional mobile interfaces
10:30Coffee break
 SESSION 2 (11:00–13:00; chair P. Saint–Grégoire)
FERROELASTIC DOMAINS
11:00W. Cao (Penn State)
Contributions of domain walls in domain engineered ferroelectric crystals
11:45A. Roytburd (Maryland)
Thermodynamics of polydomain heterostructures
12:30M. Polomska (Poznan)
Ferroelastic domain structure in some hydrogen selenate and sulphate single crystals
13:00Lunch
 SESSION 3 (14:40–16:30; chair W. Cao)
THEORY OF DOMAIN WALL I.
14:40G. Catalan (Barcelona)
Emerging properties inside (multi)ferroic domain walls
15:25A. K. Tagantsev (Lausanne)
Charged domain walls in ferroelectrics
16:10V. Janovec (Prague)
Microscopic stucture of ferroelastic–ferroelectric domain walls in trigonal perovskites
16:30Tea time
 SESSION 4 (17:00–19:00; chair W. Schranz)
FERROELECTRICITY AND SPIN SPIRALS
17:00D. Meier (Bonn)
Imaging and control of domains in a spin-spiral multiferroic
17:45M. Loire (Grenoble)
Magnetoelectric handling of antiferromagnetic domains in ferrotoroidic MnPS3
18:10A. Cano (Grenoble)
Pseudo-proper ferroelectricity in thin films
18:35A. Scaramucci (Groningen)
Domain walls in conical spiral multiferroics
19:00MONDAY POSTER SESSION
Tuesday, September 21
 SESSION 5 ( 9:00–10:30; chair J. L. Jones)
MATERIALS WITH A MORPHOTROPIC PHASE BOUNDARY I.
9:00Z.–G. Ye (Burnaby)
Domain structure and phase symmetry in novel piezoelectric PZT and relaxor-based single crystals
9:45I. M. Reaney (Sheffield)
Intermediate phases in perovskite solid solutions
10:30Coffee break
 SESSION 6 (11:00–13:00; chair I. M. Reaney)
MATERIALS WITH A MORPHOTROPIC PHASE BOUNDARY II.
11:00S. Wada (Yamanashi)
Microstructure control and piezoelectric properties of barium titanate – potassium niobate solid solution system ceramics by MPB engineering
11:45M. Pasciak (Canberra)
Accessing local structure of ferroelectrics: diffuse scattering and atomistic simulations
12:15M. Iwata (Nagoya)
Field Induced Transition and Behavior of the Phase Front in Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3 – 8% PbTiO3
12:30J. L. Jones (Gainesville)
In situ diffraction measurements reveal origin of electro-mechanical strain in ferroelectric ceramics at subcoercive, cyclic electric fields
13:00Lunch
 SESSION 7 (14:40–16:30; chair A. K. Tagantsev)
THEORY OF DOMAIN WALL II.
14:40I. Grinberg (Pennsylvania)
First-principles based multi-scale studies of domain wall motion in ferroelectrics
15:25P. Marton (Freiburg)
Atomic-scale study of switching processes in PbTiO3 with defects
16:30Tea time
 SESSION 8 (17:00–19:00; chair S. Kamba)
BISMUTH FERRITE UPDATE
17:00L. Q. Chen (Penn State)
Phase–field modeling of ferroelectric domains in multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films
17:40A. Morelli (Halle)
Bismuth ferrite nanostructures created by focused ion beam milling
18:10F. Johann (Halle)
Strain and doping engineering of epitaxial bismuth ferrite films
19:00Reflections and concert in St. Nicholas Church (opposite side of the square)
Wednesday, September 22
 SESSION 9 ( 9:00–10:30; chair L. Q. Chen)
PHASE-FIELD MODELLING OF DOMAIN PATTERNS
9:00A. Artemev (Ottawa)
Phase field modeling and thermodynamics analysis of domain structures in BaxSr(1-x)TiO3 – BaySr(1-y)TiO3 bilayers
9:30N. Ng (Singapore)
A real space phase field framework to simulate domain patterns in nanoferroelectrics
9:50P. Ondrejkovic (Prague)
The piezoelectric response of nanotwinned BaTiO3
10:10T. Sluka (Lausanne)
The effect of an elastically incompatible domain structure on the piezoelectric properties of BaTiO3
10:30Coffee Break
 SESSION 10 (11:00–13:00; chair S. Wada)
EXTRINSIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO PIEZOELECTRICITY AND POLARIZATION REVERSAL
11:00D. Damjanovic (Lausanne)
Domain wall contributions to electro-mechanical properties: new challenges
11:35J. Ouyang (Shandong)
Extrinsic piezoelectric properties of epitaxial heterophase polydomain ferroelectric films
11:50S. Zhukov (Darmstadt)
Polarization reversal dynamics in virgin and fatigued ferroelectric ceramics: an inhomogeneous field mechanism
12:15J. Rödel (Darmstadt)
Influence of electric field and mechanical stress on structure and properties of BNT-BT
13:00Lunch
 Free time (14:30–16:30)
16:30Tea time
17:00WEDNESDAY POSTER SESSION
19:30Conference dinner
Thursday, September 23
 SESSION A (9:00–10:30; chair L. M. Eng)
NANODOMAINS
9:00V. Ya. Shur (Ekaterinburg)
Formation of nanodomain structures in lithium niobate and lithium tantalate crystals
9:45J. F. Scott (Cambridge)
Nanodomains
10:30Coffee break
 SESSION B (11:00–13:00; chair E. Soergel)
ANTIPARALLEL DOMAINS
11:00M. D. Fontana (Metz)
Raman probing of antiparallel ferroelectric domains
11:25T. R. Volk (Moscow)
Domain dynamics and regular domain arrays in relaxor ferroelectric SrxBa1-xNb2O6 crystals
11:50M. S. Nebogatikov (Ekaterinburg)
3D imaging of the nanoscale domain structures by confocal microRaman spectroscopy in LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 crystals
12:15M. Schröder (Dresden)
UV–induced domain wall conductivity in Mg-doped lithium niobate at room temperature
12:35A. Brugere (Grenoble)
FEM simulation of nanodomain formation in LiTaO3
13:00Lunch
 SESSION C (14:40–16:30; chair G. Rosenman)
MICRO- AND NANOSCOPIC PATERNS IN FERROELECTRICS
14:40E. Soergel (Bonn)
From ferroelectric domains to photonic micro-components
15:05A. Haussmann (Dresden)
Bottom-up assembly of metallic and molecular nanostructures through ferroelectric lithography
15:30F. Laurell (Stockholm)
Chemical patterning of lithium niobate to obtain high fidelity domains by electric field poling
15:50A. Bartasyte (Nancy)
Curious periodic domains in lithium tantalate-niobate crystals
16:10P. Mokry (Liberec)
Dielectrophoretic forces generated by ferroelectric polydomain films
16:30Tea time
 SESSION D (17:00–19:10; chair J. Kulda)
ADVANCES IN TECHNIQUES
17:00S. V. Kalinin (Oak Ridge)
Probing bias–induced phase transitions at a single defect
17:45K. Ji (Tsukuba)
Probing ultrafast relaxation dynamics of ferroelectric clusters in paraelectric BaTiO3
18:10A. Kholkin (Aveiro)
Temperature and depth dependence of PFM patterns in PZN–PT
18:30R. Proksch (Asylum Research)
Singing in Harmony - Multifrequency Techniques in Piezoresponse Force Microscopy
18:50A. Bykov (NT–MDT)
Instrumentation for PFM research in nanotechnology
  
Friday, September 24
 SESSION E ( 9: 00–10:30; chair I.Szafraniak–Wiza)
BIOPHYSICS ADVENTURES
9:00G. Rosenman (Tel Aviv)
Ferroelectric and related phenomena in biological and bio-inspired nanostructural materials
9:45Y. Uesu (Tokyo)
SHG microscopic observations of periodically inverted domain structures in muscle fibers
10:30Coffe break
 SESSION F (11:00–12:35; chair A. Gruverman)
DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF MICROSCOPIC DOMAIN STRUCTURES
11:00W. Schranz (Wien)
Elastic softening and domain freezing in perovskites
11:45A. S. Sidorkin (Voronezh)
Formation of domain structure and domain wall motion in real ferroelectrics and ferroelastics
12:30H. Seiner (Prague)
Formation and thermally driven dynamics of interfacial microstructures in CuAlNi shape memory alloy.
12:45D. Shilo (Haifa)
Dynamics of twinning processes in ferroelectrics and ferromagnetic shape memory alloys
13:10CLOSING SESSION (13:10–13:30)
13:30Lunch
14:00Excursions

For the PFM workshop programme, see the PFM section.