Special Session CK-6
Magnetoeletrics and Multiferroics: Advances in Materials, Devices and Applications

Single phase or composite materials that exhibit more than one type of ferroic ordering have attracted considerable interests in recent years for studies on the nature of cross-coupling between the ferroic orders and for useful applications in sensors, information storage and signal processing.  In addition to traditional single phase multiferroics such as bismuth ferrite, significant advances have been reported on molecular, organic-inorganic, non-oxide, and 5d- multiferroics.  Other topics of importance in single phase multiferroics are domain walls, magnetoelectric interactions in topological insulators, and multiferroic nanostructures. Investigations on composite multiferroics have focused on electric field control of magnetism and magnetic field control of ferroelectric order parameters, complex oxides and interfaces, ferromagnetic alloy-ferroelectric composites and self-assembled composite multiferroics.  Significant progress has been reported on device applications for composite multiferroics in recent years and include efforts on magnetic sensors, high frequency devices, gyrators, energy harvesting and power electronics.
This Special Session, which follows the ones organized in previous CIMTEC conferences, will highlight developments in the understanding of the physics of multiferroic materials, theory, advances in materials synthesis and applications.
Of specific interests are: Theory and modeling of single phase and composite multiferroics, Advances in materials, synthesis and processing; New single phase multiferroic materials; Layered and multiferroic heterostructures; Nanocomposites and Self-assembly; Physics of interfaces; Magnetic field sensors; Memory application; Tunable, multiferroic microwave and mm-wave devices; Miniature antennas.