Overview of ISAF-ISIF-PFM 2015
2015 Joint IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectric (ISAF), International Symposium on Integrated Functionalities (ISIF), and Piezoresponse Force Microscopy Workshop (PFM) (ISAF-ISIF-PFM 2015) was held during 24 May 2015 (Sunday) to 27 May 2015 (Wednesday), in Singapore. The organization of the joint conference was led by the General Chairs, Kui Yao and Weiguang Zhu, with the strong supports from Ahmad Safari and Jacob L. Jones, Orlando Auciello and Jolanta Celinska, Andrei Kholkin and Kaiyang Zeng, cooperatively working as the Program Chairs for ISAF, ISIF and PFM, respectively for one fully integrated conference program. The joint ISAF-ISIF-PFM 2015 conference addressed the science and technological developments related to ferroics, pyroelectrics, piezoelectrics, dielectrics, nanocarbons, and their integration to enable new multifunctional devices, including sensors, actuators, transducers, memories, capacitors, electro-optic devices, magnetic devices, medical devices, and energy harvesting and storage devices.
About 450 abstracts had been received from 36 countries/regions. About 390 presentations were selected after the technical review covering the scope of three symposiums. The main conference program included 6 tutorial lectures, 6 plenary presentations, 5 parallel oral sessions, poster presentations including Student Poster Competition, and industry exhibitions. Tutorial lecturers and speakers in the joint conference were invited in consideration of the interests and representation of the three symposiums. Kenji Uchino, Andrei Kholkin, Zuo-guang Ye, Pablo Gurman, Orlando Auciello, Ian Reaney, Carlos Paz de Araujo, and Jolanta Celinski were the tutorial lecturers in the two parallel tutorial sessions held on Sunday. Thomas R. Shrout, Carlos Paz de Araujo, Paul S. Weiss, Kazumi Kato, Chunlin Jia, and Stefan Mueller were the speakers to deliver the 6 plenary talks in the following three days. A special technical session on Monday was dedicated to the memory of Prof. Hans Schmid.
In addition, conference reception and banquet, IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) (chaired by Nazanin Bassiri), IEEE UFFC President's Student Reception (chaired by Jian-yu Lu), and several committee meetings, were held and well attended during the conference.
The best poster award judging was conducted during the conference, and 5 prizes for the best posters were awarded to 5 students: Veronika Kovacova (Laboratoire d'electronique des technologies de l'information (CEA-LETI), France), Weng Heng Liew (Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR, and National University of Singapore, Singapore), Anirban Ghos (University of Twente, Netherlands), Daisuke Ito (Nagoya University, Japan), and Maciej Rokosz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom).
In the conference banquet, Prof Ahmad Safari announced the winner of 2015 IEEE-UFFC Ferroelectrics Recognition Award: Andrei Kholkin, from University of Aveiro, Portugal, and winner of 2015 IEEE-UFFC Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award: Ronald G. Polcawic, US Army Research Laboratory, USA.
The ISAF-ISIF-PFM 2015 joint event helped participants from industry, research institutes, and academia, to exchange interdisciplinary ideas on various multifunctional materials, including but not limited to ferroelectrics, and many interesting integrated functionalities related to ferroelectrics. More details about the conference can be found at http://sites.ieee.org/isaf-isif-pfm-2015/.
Conference banquet of ISAF-ISIF-PFM 2015, 26 May 2015, Singapore
2015 IEEE-UFFC Ferroelectrics Recognition Award: Andrei Kholkin
2015 IEEE-UFFC Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award: Ronald G. Polcawich
Best poster awards in ISAF-ISIF-PFM 2015 (5 students): Veronika Kovacova, Weng Heng Liew, Anirban Ghos, Daisuke Ito, Maciej Rokosz