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