| Sunday 11 February 2007 | ||||||||||
| 5:00 | Reception | |||||||||
| 7:00 | Dinner | |||||||||
| 9:00-11:00 | informal discussions at Huzzah | |||||||||
| Monday 12 February 2007 | ||||||||||
| Nanoscale Materials (David Singh, session chair) | ||||||||||
| 8:30 | Gregg | Probing domain configurations in nanoscale ferroelectrics | ||||||||
| 9:00 | Bellaiche | Novel depolarizing-field-induced phenomena in ferroelectric nanostructures | ||||||||
| 9:30 | Albrecht | Ferroelectric nanoscale domain structures computed by finite element | ||||||||
| 9:50 | Dkhil | Ferroelectric nanowires: a combined exptl and theoretical investigation | ||||||||
| 10:10 | Break | |||||||||
| Domains (Ron Cohen, session chair) | ||||||||||
| 10:40 | Rappe | Dynamics of polarization around domain walls under external fields | ||||||||
| 11:10 | Kalinin | The hunt for a snark: direct imaging of spatial and energy distribution of nucleation centers in ferroelectric materials | ||||||||
| 11:40 | Hlinka | Toward a phase field model for BTO with realistic domain wall properties | ||||||||
| 12:00 | Slutsker | Phase field modeling of domain structures in nanocomposite ferroelectric multilayers | ||||||||
| 12:20 | George Samara Tribute | |||||||||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |||||||||
| Fundamentals 1 (Raffaele Resta, session chair) | ||||||||||
| 1:30 | Vanderbilt | Finite electric fields and nonlinear responses in ferroelectrics | ||||||||
| 2:00 | Kornev | Phase diagram of PZT solid solutions from first principles | ||||||||
| 2:20 | Fu | Comparative study of vacancy formation energies in PTO and BTO | ||||||||
| 2:40 | Kojima | Clarified ferroelectric transition of BaTiO3 single crystal | ||||||||
| 3:00 | Posters M1-M20 | |||||||||
| Fundamentals 2 (David Vanderbilt, session chair) | ||||||||||
| 5:00 | Krakauer | Born-Oppenheimer energy landscapes away from equilbrium | ||||||||
| 5:30 | Bussman-Holder | Coexistence of local order and polar domain dynamics in ferroelectric perovskites | ||||||||
| 5:50 | Taniguchi | Soft mode dynamics in quantum ferroelectric O-exchanged SrTiO3 studied by Raman scattering | ||||||||
| 6:10 | Reiter | Measurement of Born-Oppenheimer potentials in hydrogen bonded solids using neutron compton scattering | ||||||||
| 6:30 | Uesu | Origin of colossal dielectric properties of CCTO | ||||||||
| 6:50 | Close | |||||||||
| 7:30 | Dinner | |||||||||
| 9:00-11:00 | informal discussions at Huzzah | |||||||||
| Tuesday 13 February 2007 | ||||||||||
| Relaxors 1 (Michael Weissman, session chair) | ||||||||||
| 8:30 | Blinc | Electric-field induced critical points and polarization rotations in the PMN-PT system | ||||||||
| 9:00 | Carreaud | Influence of size effects on the relaxor behavior and on the rotation of polarization in the PMN-PT system | ||||||||
| 9:20 | Gehring | Neutron scattering measurements of zone boundary tilt modes in the relaxor PMN | ||||||||
| 9:40 | Grinberg | Relationship between local structure and relaxor behavior in perovskite oxides | ||||||||
| 10:00 | Vold | Polar nanocluster in PMN-PSN across the ferroelectric phase transition | ||||||||
| 10:20 | Break | |||||||||
| Relaxors 2 (Ben Burton, session chair) | ||||||||||
| 10:50 | Vugmeister | Formation and dynamics of polar nanoregions in relaxor ferroelectrics | ||||||||
| 11:10 | Colla | Stability of glassy and ferroelectric state in the relaxors | ||||||||
| 11:30 | Yokota | Extremely slow kinetics and nonergodicity of a relaxor KLTO | ||||||||
| 11:50 | Ye | Reentrant relaxor behavior ina new solid solution of BTO-ANO | ||||||||
| 12:10 | lunch | |||||||||
| New Materials and Phases (Stephen Ducharme, session chair) | ||||||||||
| 1:10 | Cohen | Towards materials by design | ||||||||
| 1:40 | Singh | Polar behavior and ferroelectricity in perovskites from A-site disorder | ||||||||
| 2:10 | Stein | Effects of chemistry on the structure and properties of PTO-BBO solid solutions | ||||||||
| 2:30 | Poulsen | Probing ferroelectricity in cyanopolymer systems | ||||||||
| 2:50 | Posters T1-T17 | |||||||||
| New Materials and Phases (Russ Hemley, session chair) | ||||||||||
| 4:40 | Cross | New piezoelectric composites driven by flexoelectric charge separation | ||||||||
| 5:10 | Bennett | DFT models as a way to study Pd-doped BaCeO3 | ||||||||
| 5:30 | End | |||||||||
| 6:30 | Banquet | |||||||||
| 9:00-11:00 | informal discussions at Huzzah | |||||||||
| Wednesday 14 February 2007 | ||||||||||
| Films and surfaces (Charles Ahn, session chair) | ||||||||||
| 8:30 | J. Zhang | Domain structures and properties of strained epitaxial BFO thin films | ||||||||
| 8:50 | Roytburd | Domain structure of graded ferroelectric multilayers and films | ||||||||
| 9:10 | Lai | First principles study of electric field induced domain evolution in ferroelectric ultrathin films | ||||||||
| 9:30 | Fennie | Designing a huge magnetoelectric response in epitaxially strained thin films from first principles | ||||||||
| 9:50 | Noh | Epitaxial stabilization of artificial hexagonal RMnO3 (R = Dy, Tb, and Gd) thin films and their physical properties | ||||||||
| 10:10 | Break | |||||||||
| Films and surfaces (Laurent Bellaiche, session chair) | ||||||||||
| 10:40 | Stengel | Origin of the dielectric dead layer in nanoscale capacitors | ||||||||
| 11:10 | Jo | Domain dynamics and coercive field in BaTiO3 ultrathin capacitors | ||||||||
| 11:30 | Baddorf | Experimental evidence of ferroelectricity in BaTiO3 films below 10 layers | ||||||||
| 11:50 | Eglitis | Ab initio calculations of surfaces | ||||||||
| 12:10 | Lee | Strain-polarization coupling in epitaxial perovskites | ||||||||
| 12:30 | Close | |||||||||
| 12:35 | lunch | |||||||||