Symposium 2 (short session, two days)

Dielectrics, ferroelectrics and multiferroics.

Chairs:

• S. Picozzi (CNR SPIN, Italy)
• M. Bibes (Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, Palaiseau Cedex, France)
• J. Fontcuberta (Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones, Barcelona, Spain)

Invited speaker:

• V. Garcia (CNRS Thales, France)
• J. Iñiguez (ICMAB Barcelona, Spain)
• Y. Taguchi (RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Japan)
• P. Lecoeur (Universitê Paris-Sud, France)

Topics addressed in this symposium are:

• Dielectric, piezoelectric, ferroelectric, and antiferroelectric materials: properties and devices
• Theory and mechanisms for multiferroics
• Magnetoelectric effects in ferroics and multiferroics
• Composites, multilayers, strain induced phenomena in multiferroics
• Nanoferroic materials