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International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF)

The annual International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF) is sponsored by the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S). The first ISAF meeting was held in 1968; since that time, meetings have been hosted all around the world. The first ISAF meeting held in Japan was in the year 2002 (Nara) and again in 2007.

The UFFC-S is one of many societies within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). UFFC-S has over 2,000 members. As a part of their mission, the UFFC-S sponsors three annual meetings: the ISAF meeting, the International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), and the International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS).

The ISAF meetings are coordinated by the Ferroelectrics Standing Committee (FerroCom) of the UFFC-S. In 2017, there were 45 members of FerroCom who come from academia, industry, and non-profits from around the world. FerroCom meets twice per year and representatives from FerroCom and the ferroelectrics scientific community serve many roles on the UFFC-S Administrative Committee.

The IEEE UFFC-S is interested in the theory, technology, materials, and applications relating to: the generation, transmission, and detection of ultrasonic waves and related phenomena; medical ultrasound, and associated technologies; ferroelectric, piezoelectric, and piezomagnetic materials; frequency generation and control, timing, and time coordination and distribution. This interest ranges from fundamental studies to the design and/or applications of devices, sensors, systems and manufacturing technologies within the general scope defined above.

Membership in the IEEE UFFC Society offers many opportunities for networking and connecting, educating and learning, and disseminating and learning about recent research, technology, and education outcomes.

Access more details and history of UFFC-S and ISAF here.

ISAF 2019 Proceedings

Information regarding the ISAF Proceedings submission process can be found here.

Transactions of Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control:

Following the Conference, select papers will be invited to submit a full manuscript for publication consideration in the 2019 Ferroelectrics Special Issue of the IEEE T-UFFC. Furthermore, the invited speakers and the student paper finalists are also encouraged to submit papers to this special issue.

ISAF Chair

Geoff Brennecka
Colorado School of Mines, USA

ISAF Program Chair

Julia Glaum
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

ISAF Program Co-Chair

Hiroshi Funakubo
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Plenary Speakers

Yun Liu

Professor

Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University

Title: Study of Ferroelectrics: Past, Current and Future

Satoshi Wada

Professor of Material Science and Technology

University of Yamanashi

Satoshi Wada

Biography

Satoshi Wada is a Professor of Material Science and Technology at University of Yamanashi. His main research interests include dielectric and piezoelectric nanoparticles, ceramics and single crystals, nano-structure induced enhanced property, and domain engineering in ferroelectric materials. He obtained B.S. degree (1986) in Metallurgy at Ibaraki University, M.S., (1988) and Ph.D. (1991) degrees in Material Science at Tokyo Institute of Technology. After graduation, he joined the faculty (assistant professor) at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology from 1991 to 1999. During Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, he has held visiting scientist at the Pennsylvania State University from 1996 to 1997. On 1999, he joined the faculty (assistant professor) at Tokyo institute of Technology, and promoted to an associate professor there on 2000. On 2007, he joined the faculty (associate professor) at University of Yamanashi and on 2009, promoted to full professor.

He has authored more than 300 publications, 30 patents, and 10 co-authored books in the material science field. He is a member of IEEE, The American Ceramic Society, the Materials Research Society, the Ceramics Society of Japan, the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, the Physical Society of Japan, the Chemical Society of Japan, Catalysis Society of Japan, and the Society of Powder Technology. He co-organized a symposium at the MS&T06 Conference (2006, Cincinnati), the 8th International Symposium on Ferroic Domains and Micro- to Nanoscopic Structure (2004, Tsukuba), IUMRS-ICAM 2003, 2007, 2014 (2003 Yokohama, 2007 Tokyo & 2014 Fukuoka), the 3rd International Ceramics Congress (2010, Osaka), and the 6th Japan-China Ferroelectric Materials and Application (Yamanashi, 2014). He received the Best Presentation Award of MRS-Japan in 1996, the JCerSJ Best Manuscript Award of the Ceramics Society of Japan in 1997, the Young Scientist Award of Electroceramics Division in 1999, the PFEIL Award in 2005, the Richard Fulrath Award of the American Ceramics Society in 2007, the JJAP Editorial Contribution Award of the Japanese Applied Physics Society in 2007, the AEM Award of the Japan AEM Society in 2008, the CSJ Award of the Ceramics Society of Japan in 2009 and Ferroelectric Recognition Award of the IEEE in 2018.

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Affiliation(s)

Professor of Material Science and Technology

University of Yamanashi

Title: Using Engineered Interfaces and Strain-Gradient Regions to Design Properties in Electroceramics

Uwe Schroeder

Deputy Scientific Director

NaMLab

Title: Ferroelectric Hafnium Oxide and its applications in non-volatile memories, negative capacitance elements, and neuromorphic networks

Kenji Uchino

Founding Director of International Center for Actuators and Transducers

Penn State University

Kenji Uchino

Biography

Kenji Uchino, one of the pioneers in piezoelectric actuators, is Founding Director of International Center for Actuators and Transducers and Professor of EE and MatSE at Penn State University. He was Associate Director (Global Technology Awareness) at The US Office of Naval Research – Global Tokyo Office (2010-2014). He was also the Founder and Senior Vice President of Micromechatronics Inc., State College, PA (2004-20010). He became Research Associate/Assistant Professor (1976) in Physical Electronics Department at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, then, joined Sophia University, Japan as Associate Professor in Physics Department in 1985. He was recruited from The Penn State University in 1991. He was the Founding Chair of Smart Actuators/Sensors Committee, Japan Technology Transfer Association sponsored by Ministry of Economics, Trading and Industries, Japan (1987-2014), and is a long-term Chair of International Conference on New Actuators, Messe Bremen, Germany since 1997.

His research interest is in solid state physics, especially in ferroelectrics and piezoelectrics, including basic research on theory, materials, device designing and fabrication processes, as well as application development of solid state actuators/sensors for precision positioners, micro-robotics, ultrasonic motors, smart structures, piezoelectric transformers and energy harvesting. K. Uchino is known as the discoverer/inventor of the following topics: (1) lead magnesium niobate (PMN)-based electrostricive materials, (2) cofired multilayer piezoelectric actuators (MLA), (3) superior piezoelectricity in relaxor-lead titanate-based piezoelectric single crystals (PZN-PT), (4) photostrictive phenomenon, (5) shape memory ceramics, (6) magnetoelectric composite sensors, (7) transient response control scheme of piezoelectric actuators (Pulse-Drive technique), (8) micro ultrasonic motors, (9) multilayer disk piezoelectric transformers, and (10) piezoelectric loss characterization methodology. He has authored 570 papers, 75 books and 31 patents in the ceramic actuator area.

He is a Fellow of American Ceramic Society since 1997, a Fellow of IEEE since 2012, and also is a recipient of 29 awards, including Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE UFFC Society (2018), International Ceramic Award from Global Academy of Ceramics (2016), IEEE-UFFC Ferroelectrics Recognition Award (2013), Inventor Award from Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems, Virginia Tech (2011), Premier Research Award from The Penn State Engineering Alumni Society (2011).

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Affiliation(s)

Founding Director of International Center for Actuators and Transducers

Penn State University

Title: Fractal Aspects and Critical Lengthscales in Ferroelectrics

Invited Speakers

Martin Alexe, University of Warwick, United Kingdom]

Juliette Cardoletti, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Gustau Catalán, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain

Long-Qing Chen, Pennsylvania State University, United States of America

Charlotte Cochard, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom

John Daniels, University of New South Wales, Australia

Emmanuel Defay, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg

Elizabeth Dickey, North Carolina State University, United States of America

Brahim Skhil, Laboratoire Structures, Propriétés et Modélisation des Solides (SPMS), CentraleSupélec, CNRS-UMR8580, Université Paris-Saclay, G, France

Stephen Ducharme, University of Nebraska, United States of America

Lynn Ewart, NUWCNPT, United States of America

Peter Finkel, Naval Research Laboratory, United States of America

Vladimir Fridkin, Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Semën Gorfman, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Marion Höfling, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Jon Ihlefeld, University of Virginia, United States of America

Hamideh Khanbareh, University of Bath, United Kingdom

Ho-Yong Lee, Ceracomp, South Korea

Jingfeng Li, Tsinghua University, China

Céline Lichtensteiger, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Lane W. Martin, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Sylvia Matzen, Université Paris-Sud, France

Leopoldo Molina-Luna, TU Darmstadt, Germany

John Phair, Pyreos Ltd, United Kingdom

Vasudevan Rama, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America

Clive Randall, Pennsylvania State University, United States of America

Andrew M. Rappe, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tadej Rojac, Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

James Roscow, University of Bath, United Kingdom

Daniel Sando, University of New South Wales, Australia

Tae Kwon Song, Changwon National University, South Korea

Jonathan Spanier, Drexel University, United states of America

Nicholas Strnad, University of Maryland, United States of America

Scott Summerfelt, Texas Instruments, United states of America

Takaaki Tsurumi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Julian Walker, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Hong Wang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Junling Wang, Nanyang University, Singapore

Xiaohui Wang, Tsinghua University, China

Mingmin Yang, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Zuo-Guang Ye, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Hiroko Yokota, Chiba University, Japan

Christina Zacharaki, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Greece

Qifa Zhou, University of Southern California, United states of America

Pavlo Zubko, University College of London (UCL), United Kingdom

Tutorial Speakers

Pim Groen, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Topic: The road towards flexible and smart electronic materials

Andrew Bell, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Topic: Advanced processing of ceramic (including MLCC) and crystal

Mickael Lallart, INSA de Lyon, France
Topic: Piezoelectric and pyroelectric energy harvesting

Long-Qing Chen, Penn State University, USA
Topic: Phase field method of ferroelectric domain structures

International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF)

ISAF 2019 Proceedings

Transactions of Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control:

ISAF Chair

ISAF Program Chair

ISAF Program Co-Chair

Plenary Speakers

Yun Liu

Satoshi Wada

Uwe Schroeder

Kenji Uchino

Invited Speakers

Tutorial Speakers

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