Multifunctional Materials – Theory and Experiment

October 4-8, 2010, Freiburg Germany

Modern materials are intrinsically multifunctional. Today’s challenge to materials designers is that often one can no longer focus upon a single property. This symposium will address the following issues among others.

  • Materials that are simultaneously ferroelectric and ferromagnetic
  • Materials for spintronics which carry both spin and charge in carriers injected into carefully engineered crystal interfaces
  • New gate insulator materials
  • Smart materials and surface coatings
  • Transparent conducting oxides and polymers for photovoltaic or optoelectronics
  • The exciting prospect of metamaterials opens up a future of materials that are manufactured on the mesoscopic scale and have radically new functionality in their response to microscopic fields.

We will bring together multiscale modelers and experimenters to exchange ideas for future generations of materials. Experimenters will appreciate the state of the art in multiscale modeling. Modelers will be take up challenges thrown down by the experimenters in state of the art in synthesis, characterization and integration.

 

NEW: Topical Session "Computational Modeling of Ferroelectric Materials"

Sponsors

Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany

Organizers

Christian Elsässer
Fraunhofer-Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM
Physical Modelling of Materials
79108 Freiburg, Germany
christian.elsaesser(at)iwm.fraunhofer.de
Phone +49 761 5142 286

Anthony Paxton
Queen’s University Belfast
Atomistic Simulation Centre
Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
Tony.Paxton(at)QUB.ac.uk
Phone +44 28 90 975328

Plenary Talk

Matthias Scheffler, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany

 

Invited Speakers

  • Georges Adamopoulos, Imperial College London, UK
  • Thomas Eckl, Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Nicholas Kioussis, California State University Northridge, USA
  • Peter Kratzer, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  • Pedro Rivera-Diaz-del-Castillo, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Jörg Schröder, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  • Nicola Spaldin, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  • Mark van Schilfgaarde, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
  • Rainer Waser, FZ Jülich and RWTH Aachen, Germany

Computational Modelling of Ferroelectric Materials

This topical session is related to the cooperative research project
COMFEM funded by the German Ministry for Research and Education
(BMBF-WING project 03X0510).

Invited speakers for this session:

  • Eberhard Hennig, PI Ceramic GmbH, Lederhose, Germany
  • Marc Kamlah, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Alexander Konstandin, Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Hans-Jürgen Schreiner, CeramTec AG, Lauf, Germany
  • Thorsten Steinkopff, Siemens AG, München, Germany

Contact

Please contact the following organizers if you have any questions:

christian.elsaesser(at)iwm.fraunhofer.de
tony.paxton(at)QUB.ac.uk