Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics, 2006

To be held at the:

Woodlands Conference Center

in

Colonial Williamsburg

Williamsburg, Virginia

February 12-15, 2006

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Sponsored by:

U. S. Office of Naval Research

 

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Information for Presenters:

There will be a LCD projector or an overhead (with a single projection screen) for speakers. The poster boards size is 4'x 8'. There is no facility for LCD presentations for the poster sessions.

Introduction

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, multiferroics, and all aspects of electromechanical response.

Venue:

The workshop will be held at the Woodlands Conference Center in Colonial Williamsburg. The meeting will start on Sunday, February 12th at 5:00pm and end at 1pm on Wednesday, February 15th.

Registration:

Please fill out registration form online here. Pre-registration deadline is January 12, 2006. The Meeting registration is $125.00 if received before January 12, 2006, and $175.00 if payment is received after January 12, 2006. You may pay by cash or check on site of the meeting. Credit cards are not accepted. When paying by check, please make checks payable to Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Please mail checks to:

c/o Ronald Cohen
Geophysical Laboratory
Carnegie Institution of Washington
5251 Broad Branch RD., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20015

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 “Ferro2006” or “Ferroelectrics Workshop” to get the conference rate. Hotel reservations must be made by January 12^th, 2006. 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: $79.00 (single or double)
meals: $60.00

The room and meals are a package--all those staying at the hotel will be charged for meals. If you are local to Williamsburg and will not be staying at the hotel, please send a check for the meals to Ronald Cohen made payable to the Carnegie Institution at the address above. Such checks must be received  by  February 6. All patricipants are urged to take their meals atthe workshop, and to stay at the hotel if space is available.

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 12^th, 2006.

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
 

 

For further information, contact Peter Gehring or Ronald Cohen