ABOUT THE FERROELECTRICS MEETING OF THE AMERICAS

The field of ferroelectrics, as well as related phenomena and novel electronic materials development, which introduced new cross-coupled effects like multiferroics and bioferroics to the scientific community, are beginning to integrate with emerging science of the new era around the world. Due to various factors, it is especially important to accelerate such communications to the scientific community in the developing countries of the Americas.

To facilitate and accelerate our objectives, we have proposed to bring together representatives from several Central and South American countries working in areas of ferroelectrics and related materials research. With these goals in mind, a special society of ferroelectrics was formed that include representatives from each country of the Americas as the members of the board (the FMAs board) to conduct a series of meetings, “Ferroelectric Meeting of Americas–FMAs.” The meetings are held with regular frequency so researchers in this field can communicate, interact with each other, and develop cooperative and collaborative research programs in the Americas with other interested international partners in this research field.

The first board meeting was held at the International Meeting on Ferroelectricity (IMF2017) in September 2017 in San Antonio Texas, USA. Board members and participants from the countries of the Americas symbolized it as the first joint FMAs-1 and IMF 2017. In this context we had included ferroics-related research activities from the Americas and aimed to stimulate the research environment of ferroics-related collaborative research at various universities and institutes from the participating countries of the Americas.

Like the IMF series, the FMAs will provide a platform to bring together researchers from academia, industry, and government laboratories to share their knowledge in the field and to present the development of novel applications of ferroelectricity in various interdisciplinary & cross-coupled research areas. FMAs-2 will be held jointly with the Pan American Ceramics Congress.

The conference program may also include some special topical areas for interested participants. The peer reviewed and accepted papers presented at the meeting will be published in the special volume of International Journal of Ferroelectrics.

The topics covering all aspects of ferroelectrics, ferroics, multiferroics, and related multifunctional materials and devices will be covered but not be limited to:
• Theory, first principle calculations, phase transitions, and critical phenomena
• Growth of crystals, processing of materials and characterization, structure-property relationships, and thin films
• Domains and boundaries, surfaces and interfaces, imperfections, controlling and exploiting topological defects
• Dielectric, piezoelectric, pyroelectric properties
• Ferroelectric polymers, composites
• Probing the nanoscale ferroelectric behavior and size effects
• Order-disorder phenomena, ferroelectric relaxors
• Ferroics, bio-ferroics, multiferroics, bio-multiferroics, cross-coupled, and secondary ferroics
• Raman, IR, sub-millimeter, THz, microwave spectroscopy
• Ferroelectric-semiconductor integration
• Novelty of perovskites—single- phase ferroics, mixed oxides for energy harvesting, and superconductor oxides
• Simulation, modeling, and design of novel ferroics and meta-electronic materials
• Ferroelectrics by design—beyond serendipity
• Novel applications and device concepts using various ferroics and multiferroics for the applications in bio-components, multifunctional device concepts

FMAs GENERAL CHAIR

Amar Bhalla
Distinguished Research Professor
University of Texas at San Antonio
Texas – USA
(+1) 210-458-6268
amar.bhalla@utsa.edu
 

LEAD ORGANIZERS:

Amar Bhalla, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA, amar.bhalla@utsa.edu

Avadh Saxena, Los Alamos National Lab, USA, avadh@lanl.gov

CO-ORGANIZERS:

José Eiras, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, eiras@df.ufscar.br

Ruyan Guo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA, ruyan.guo@utsa.edu

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM ADVISORY:

Chong-Lin Chen, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Ducinei Garcia, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil

Ivair Santos, State University of Maringá, Brazil

Jesus Siqueiros, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

José Guerra, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil

Luiz Cótica, State University of Maringá, Brazil

Marcelo Stachiotti, Rosario National University, Argentina

Quan-Xi Jia, University at Buffalo, USA

Ram Katiyar, University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico

Rattikorn Yimnirum, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology, Thailand

Ruyan Guo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Shashank Priya, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Steven Tidrow, Alfred University, USA

Tanmoy Maiti, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Board Members of FMAs (representatives of countries of the Americas)

PUBLICATION:

Amar Bhalla, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Flávia Estrada, CNPEM, Brazil

Ivair Santos, State University of Maringá, Brazil

José Guerra, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil

Luiz Cótica, State University of Maringá, Brazil

WEBSITE:

Ivair Santos, State University of Maringá, Brazil

Luiz Cótica, State University of Maringá, Brazil

Ruyan Guo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Marcelo Stachiotti, Rosario National University, Argentina

AWARD COMMITTEE:

(to be announced after the meeting)

LOCAL ORGANIZATIONAL ASSISTANCE:

Amar Bhalla, USA

Eleicer Ching Prado, Panama

Elida de Obaldia, Panama

Melissa Montese, Panama

OBS: similar information about FMAs meeting can be found here.
Additional information for papers submission can be found here.