Call for Papers

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Ferroic materials with spontaneous magnetic or electric long-range order are a rich source for emergent functional phenomena, enabling conceptually new pathways towards unconventional computing. The dynamical properties of spin- and dipole-systems displaying frustration or competing interactions, for example, can be utilized for the implementation of reservoir computing. Furthermore, tunnel junctions with ferroelectric barriers allow continuous conductivity changes that can be leveraged for multilevel data storage in memristor chips, whereas magnetic tunnel junctions behave as oscillators, to be used as artificial synapsis and neuron devices for neuromorphic computing. Recently, topological solitons have moved into focus, adding a strong cross-disciplinary dimension to the field, connecting the ferroelectrics and the magnetism communities. Innovative device concepts based on magnetic materials and ferroelectrics, as well as overarching theoretical descriptions, are now being investigated and combined to develop a joint fundamental understanding, propelled by the recent developments in theory, synthesis and characterization.

This symposium aims to bring together scientific experts and young scientists with an interest in ferroic materials (ferroelectric, ferromagnetic, and multiferroic), topological phenomena and innovative technologies, fostering interactions and advancing knowledge of emergent functional properties and related hardware concepts for unconventional computing.

Topics will include:

• Multi-level resistance control / resistive switching
• Device concepts and signal control
• Functional topological electric and magnetic solitons (skyrmions, polar vortices, domain walls)
• Theoretical simulation and modelling of electrically and magnetically driven processes
• Emergent functional properties, including interface phenomena and defects
• Materials (bulk crystals, thin films, superlattices, 2D systems, novel topological materials, novel spintronic semiconductors)
• Controlled formation, excitation/activation and movement functional entities (domains, solitons, interfaces, spin waves)
• In-situ/operando characterization of dynamic processes
• Material-based concepts for unconventional computing
• Top-down fabrication and bottom-up design of neuromorphic devices / circuitry

Invited Speakers (tentative):

• Laura Bégon-Lours (IBM Research-Zurich, Switzerland)
• Erika Covi (NaMLab, Germany)
• Karin Everschor-Sitte (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
• Giovanni Finocchio (Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy)
• Yukako Fujishiro (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Vincent Garcia (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
• Marty Gregg (Queen's University Belfast, Ireland)
• Alexei Gruverman (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA)
• Axel Hoffmann (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• Jean-Anne Incorvia (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
• Fumitaka Kagawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Alexander Khatjetoorians (Radboud University, Netherlands)
• Hermann Kohlstedt (Kiel University, Germany)
• Igor Lukyanchuk (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France)
• Vijaykrishnan Narayanan (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• Stefan Slesazeck (NaMLab, Germany)
• Masaki Uchida (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Xiuzhen Yu (RIKEN, Japan)

Symposium Organizers