2025 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

Symposium EL11-Magnetoelectric Materials and Microsystems

This symposium is focused on the fast-growing field of magnetoelectric materials and microsystems. Magnetoelectric materials, with their strong interplay among spin, charge, orbit, and lattice degrees of freedom, have offered a remarkable playground for fundamental studies in materials science and condensed matter physics. Recent advances in magnetoelectric materials have enabled emerging applications in logic, memory, neuromorphic computing, biomagnetic sensing, and wireless power transfer. Magnetoelectric microsystems, including for example magnetoelectric spin-orbit devices, have emerged as a promising route towards beyond CMOS technology. Our symposium will highlight the latest advancements in this field, including novel magnetoelectric materials (heterostructures, multiferroics, antiferromagnets, chiral magnets, etc.), novel phenomena (spin-charge interconversion, spin-orbit torque, magnon-phonon-photon coupling, etc.), and novel device applications (spin-orbit torque MRAM, sensors, antennas, magnonics, etc.). This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together a diverse host of experts from academia, national laboratories, and industry to discuss recent developments in theory, synthesis, characterization, and devices. Additionally, it will address the opportunities and challenges in CMOS-compatible integration of magnetoelectric materials and circuit-level integration of magnetoelectric microsystems.

Topics will include:

New magnetoelectric materials, heterostructures, nanostructures, and membranes
Theory and simulation of magnetoelectric materials
Advanced imaging and high-frequency characterization techniques for magnetoelectrics materials and microsystems
Magnon-phonon-photon coupling and new effects
Voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy, strain-mediated effects, and magneto-ionic effects
Magnetoelectric sensors, antennas, actuators, and energy harvesters
Spin-orbit torque and spintronic devices (MESO, multiferroic magnon torque, SOT-MRAM, spin logic, etc.)
Magnonics and voltage-controlled magnon transport in magnetoelectric materials
Magnetoelectric microsystems for neuromorphic computing and bioelectronics

Invited Speakers:

Geoffrey Beach (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Manuel Bibes (Université Paris-Saclay, France)
Christian Binek (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Longqing Chen (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Sang-wook Cheong (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA)
Kathrin Dorr (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
Changbeom Eom (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Manfred Fiebig (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Martina Gerken (Kiel University, Germany)
Jiamian Hu (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Quanxi Jia (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA)
Na Lei (Beihang University, China)
Hwaider Lin (Winchester Technologies, LLC., USA)
Aurélien Manchon (Aix-Marseille Université, France)
Lane Martin (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Jeffrey McCord (Kiel University, Germany)
Asuka Namai (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Michael Page (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
Ramamoorthy Ramesh (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Qiming Shao (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Pu Yu (Tsinghua University, China)
Xixiang Zhang (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)