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