Save the date: September 6 - 8, 2023, Berlin

Summer School 2023                                          
Polar Piezoelectric Oxides

The summer school focusses on preparation, characterisation and application of polar piezoelectric oxide crystals with special emphasis on lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and its solid solutions. Atomistic transport processes, the behaviour of domain walls and many other fundamental topics will be introduced. The event is organised by the DFG Research Unit 5044 Periodic low-dimensional defect structures in polar oxides.

Workshop topics                
•    Fundamentals of ferroelectrics            
•    Crystal growth and thin-film deposition
•    Poling and domain structures
•    Atomistic transport and modeling                   
•    Optical properties                
•    Acoustic properties

Timeline
•    Lectures and tutorials
    September 6: 11 am - 6 pm
    September 7:  8 am – 6 pm
•    Hands-on experiments
    September 8:  8 am – 3 pm

Guest speaker
•    Opening talk: Prof. Marco Bazzan, University of Padova
•    High temperature piezoelectric applications: Dr. Roland Sommer, Kistler Intrumente AG
•    Young scientist support: Dr. Christiane Richter, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Venue
Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung
Max-Born-Straße 2A, 12489 Berlin, Germany