Programme

Book of abstracts

The book of abstracts is now avaliable. Please click here to download the book of abstracts.

General information

The conference will include morning sessions and evening sessions  on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th of  March, and one morning session on Wednesday 20th of March.

The scientific program is now availiable. Please click here to download the scientific programme.

Tutorials will take place in the afternoon on monday 17th of March. Details will be announced soon.

Topics

Topics that will be explored at the conference include:

• Advanced functional materials
• Ferroelectric, piezoelectric, electrostrictive
• Multiferroic, metamaterials
• New processing techniques & environmental issues
• Lead-free
• Bulk processing
• Thin & thick films
• Flexible substrates
• Applications
• Sensors
• Actuators
• Energy management, harvesting and conversion
• Biomedical & health, diagnostics and therapy
• NDE and process monitoring
• Avionics and transportation
• Telecommunications / ICT

Invited speakers

Prof. Susan Trolier-McKinstry Smart Materials Integration LaboratoryPennsylvania State University : Piezoelectric Films for Next Generation Logic Elements

Apl. Prof. Dr. Andreas Klein Surface Science Group TU Darmstadt Germany : A semiconductor perspective of ferroelectric materials

Prof. Philippe Benech.LAboratoire d'Hyperfréquences et de Caractérisation, Grenoble France : Piezoelectric materials and their applications in radio frequency domain and telecommunications

Prof. Dr. Ir. Nico de Jong Department of Biomedical Engineering Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC Netherlands : New dual frequency phased array transducer for cardiac imaging.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Becker Expert for Autonomous Sensor Systems EADS : New dual frequency phased array transducer for cardiac imaging.

Proceedings

The Proceedings of the PIEZO Conference will be published in the EJP web of conference. http://www.epj-conferences.org/.  EJP web of conference is a free on-line access journal. It has an immediate citability by DOI and indexed in several databases such as Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Web of Science).

All authors, both oral and poster, are encouraged to publish in the conference proceedings.

Full paper submissions are limited to four (4) single-side pages in the required one-column format. Invited papers can be up to six (6) pages in length. You will find here the instructions for the manuscript preparation. Further instructions for the generation of the conference papers can be found http://www.epj-conferences.org/. You can download directly you proceeding on the conference website using your personal account

The dead line for proceeding submission is the 20^th of March 2013.

In addition during the conference, the scientific committee will select  papers to be proposed to a full peer reviewed submission to the Journal ‘Advances in Applied Ceramics’.