Symposium CK
Progress in Electroceramics Research
Convener:
Xiang Ming CHEN, Zhejiang University, China
Members:
Sheikh AKBAR, Ohio State University, USA
Masaki AZUMA, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
Ratiba BENZERGA, Université de Rennes 1, France
Dragan DAMJANOVIC, EPFL, Switzerland
Brahim DKHI,L Centrale Supelec, France
Sossina M. HAILE, Northwestern University, USA
Heli Maarit JANTUNEN, University of Oulu, Finland
Andreas KLEIN, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Jurij KORUZA, TU Graz, Austria
Pool See LEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jing-Feng LI, Tsinghua University, China
Barbara MALIC, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Alexander MICHAELIS, IKTS Fraunhofer, Germany
Liliana MITOSERIU, University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Romania
Ian M. REANEY, The University of Sheffield, UK
Edward M. SABOLSKY, West Virginia University, USA
Xun SHI, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, China
Paula VILARINHO, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Eric WACHSMAN, University of Maryland, USA
Satoshi WADA, University of Yamanashi, Japan
Xiaohui WANG, Tsinghua University, China
John WEI, University of Toronto, Canada
Di WU, Nanjing University, China
Xiao Li ZHU, Zhejiang University, China
Xiang Ming CHEN, Zhejiang University, China
Members:
Sheikh AKBAR, Ohio State University, USA
Masaki AZUMA, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
Ratiba BENZERGA, Université de Rennes 1, France
Dragan DAMJANOVIC, EPFL, Switzerland
Brahim DKHI,L Centrale Supelec, France
Sossina M. HAILE, Northwestern University, USA
Heli Maarit JANTUNEN, University of Oulu, Finland
Andreas KLEIN, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Jurij KORUZA, TU Graz, Austria
Pool See LEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jing-Feng LI, Tsinghua University, China
Barbara MALIC, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Alexander MICHAELIS, IKTS Fraunhofer, Germany
Liliana MITOSERIU, University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Romania
Ian M. REANEY, The University of Sheffield, UK
Edward M. SABOLSKY, West Virginia University, USA
Xun SHI, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, China
Paula VILARINHO, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Eric WACHSMAN, University of Maryland, USA
Satoshi WADA, University of Yamanashi, Japan
Xiaohui WANG, Tsinghua University, China
John WEI, University of Toronto, Canada
Di WU, Nanjing University, China
Xiao Li ZHU, Zhejiang University, China
The list of Invited Speakers will be available at the end of July 2025
Improvements in basic knowledge and practical exploitation of their unique properties, has established electrical ceramics as a central and fast developing sector in materials research, resulting in a significant impact on several areas of modern technologies. The increasing demand for even more refined or novel properties hardly to be competitively met by other materials is fuelling the interest for improved or new processing routes and deeper understanding of the fundamental materials science to meet requirements coming from a variety of advanced civilian and defence applications.
Normal and relaxor ferroelectric materials, microwave dielectric ceramics, lead-free piezoelectrics, multiferroic materials, thermal electric materials and ionic and mixed ionic electronic conducting ceramics are but some examples of the ongoing developments in the area which massively makes use of the opportunities offered by nanoscience and nanotechnology, and by computational modelling and new theory.
Major focus will be on:
A Special Session “Magnetoelectrics and Multiferroics: Advances in Materials, Devices and Applications” will complement the Symposium activities.
Normal and relaxor ferroelectric materials, microwave dielectric ceramics, lead-free piezoelectrics, multiferroic materials, thermal electric materials and ionic and mixed ionic electronic conducting ceramics are but some examples of the ongoing developments in the area which massively makes use of the opportunities offered by nanoscience and nanotechnology, and by computational modelling and new theory.
Major focus will be on:
- Development of new and more efficient processes, better characterisation tools of bulk, crystalline, glassy and amorphous materials, thin films, multilayers, superlattices, nanomaterials, nanostructures and hybrid materials; advances in thin-film and related micro/ nano-fabrication techniques and “bottom-up” approaches that offer the potential for high-density integration of nanoscale devices
- Fundamental mechanisms, novel (multi)functional characteristics and behaviour of materials such as electronic structure, quantum effects, phase transitions, transport phenomena, defects, diffusion, domain structure and switching, grain boundary controlled mechanisms, nanosize effects, surfaces and interfaces, dielectric, piezoelectric, magnetic and optical properties, ageing and fatigue, reliability, fractals, modeling and simulation, etc.
- New developments in devices including resonators, filters, fuel cells, batteries, high energy density capacitors, gas separation membranes, piezoelectric devices, sensors and actuators, MEMS/NEMS devices, and related integration technologies.
A Special Session “Magnetoelectrics and Multiferroics: Advances in Materials, Devices and Applications” will complement the Symposium activities.
Session Topics
CK-1 Dielectrics and microwave materials
- Fundamentals, synthesis, processing, characterisation
- Capacitor dielectrics
- Mott insulators
- Microwave and millimeter wave dielectrics
- LTCC
- New thin film materials and integration technologies
- Packaging and interconnect issues
CK-2 Ferroelectric, piezoelectric, pyroelectric, and ferroelastic ceramics
- Synthesis and processing: polycrystalline ceramics and composites, thin/thick films, single crystals, novel materials
- Ferroelectric new materials
- Lead-free ferroelectrics and piezoelectrics
- Relaxor ferroelectrics
- Theory and modelling
- Characterisation
- Electromechanical behaviour and piezoelectric applications
- Thin film devices
- Capacitor applications, MLCC
- Sensor applications
- Novel applications
- Bulk materials, composites, nanostructures
- Low-dimensional materials
- Energy conversion mechanisms
- Device design and applications
- Modeling and simulation of materials and devices
CK-4 Caloric ceramics
- Magneto-/electro-/elasto-/boro-caloric ceramics
- Underlying phenomena in reversible thermal effects
- Improving cooling-power density, temperature span, energy efficiency
- Devices and applications
CK-5 Semiconducting and fast ion-conducting ceramics
- Amorphous and crystalline semiconducting and fast conducting oxides
- Non-oxide semiconductors and fast ion conductors
- Synthesis, processing, characterisation
- Defect chemistry, doping mechanisms, carriers origin and dynamics
- Devices and applications