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Abstracts

Program and Presentations (Please click on links to view presentations)

Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics, 2004

To be held at the:

Woodlands Conference Center

in

Colonial Williamsburg

Williamsburg, Virginia

February 8-11, 2004

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Sponsored by:

Carnegie Institution of Washington

U. S. Office of Naval Research

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This workshop will cover forefront experimental and theoretical research on the fundamental understanding of ferroelectrics. Ferroelectrics are exceedingly useful materials in modern technology, with applications as transducers, actuators, dielectrics, and nonvolatile memories. In addition, they present fundamental problems in the behavior of insulators in electric fields, spontaneous polarization, piezoelectricity, phase transitions, extreme sensitivity to temperature, composition, and pressure. Experimental and theoretical advances in the last decade have stimulated a major resurgence of interest in this classic problem of condensed matter physics. The workshop is sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

This workshop is a sequel to a series of alternating experimental and theoretical meetings on fundamental issues in ferroelectrics held in Colonial Williamsburg each year since 1990. This workshop will jointly address experimental and theoretical issues in synthesizing, measuring, understanding, and predicting the behavior of these fascinating materials.

Key problems to be addressed include understanding of ferroelectric superlattices, the “real structure” of ferroelectrics, large strain piezoelectric single crystals, domain effects on piezoelectric response, materials under finite electric fields, ferroelectric solid solutions, thin films, and all aspects of electromechanical response. There will also be a few more applied talks on piezoelectric applications.

Venue:

The workshop will be held at the Woodlands Conference Center in Colonial Williamsburg. The meeting will start on Sunday, February 8th at 5:00pm and end at 5pm on Wednesday, February 11th.

Registration:

Registration is now closed. Registration will be possible onsite, space available.

Meeting registration is $50.00; you may pay by cash or check on site of the meeting.

When paying by check, please make check payable to Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Hotel:

Reservations should be made by phone to the Woodlands Conference Center at 1-800-822-9127; If you are overseas please call 757-229-1000 Ext. 3971 and mention “Ferro2004” or “Ferroelectrics Workshop” to get the conference rate. Hotel reservations must be made by December 8^th, 2003. Both registration (above) and hotel reservations are required for the meeting.

The conference fees to Colonial Williamsburg are a package as follows (per day):

room: $59.00 (single) $29.50 (per person, double)
meals: $42.00
conference facilities fee: $36.00

Total : $137.00 plus tax (single) $107.50 (double)

For local participants (meals, but no room): $58.00 plus tax

For your information the government per diem rates are $59.00 for lodging and $42.00 for food.

Proceedings:

There will be no Proceedings this year.

Instead of a proceedings volume this year, there will be a booklet of extended abstracts. Abstracts should be two pages and should contain significant results. They can contain figures and/or tables, and should be submitted by email, each as a single PDF file, ready to print to Peter Gehring.

The final abstract deadline is January 8^th, 2004.

Talks will be chosen from the submitted abstracts.

Organizing committee:

Peter Gehring, National Institute of Standards and Technology, peter.gehring@nist.gov

Ronald Cohen, Carnegie Institution of Washington, cohen@gl.ciw.edu

Previous workshops:

Some previous workshop web pages are available… 2001, 2000, 1999

For further information, contact Peter Gehring or Ronald Cohen