Published: Suppressed polar distortion in a-axis oriented PbTiO3 film

Our paper entitled “Suppressed polar distortion with enhanced Curie temperature in in-plane 90º-domain structure of a-axis oriented PbTiO3 film” has been published in Appl. Phys. Lett. This work has been in collaboration with Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), Bruker AXS (Japan), EPFL (Switzerland) and Ioffe Physical Technical Institute (Russia).

Citation: Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 042905 (2015)

Visit & seminar: Dr. Ping Ma

On Nov. 14, Dr. Ping Ma (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich – ETHZ, Institute of Electromagnetic Fields) visited us and lectured on ferroelectric EO devices.

LecturerSeminar title
Dr. Ping Ma
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich – ETHZ)
Thin-film ferroelectric materials for Si electro-optic devices

Awarded: Yoshinori TANAKA

Yoshinori TANAKA won the Poster Award of the 6th China-Japan Symposium on Ferroelectric Materials and Their Applications held in Yamanashi, Japan for his poster “In-situ Analysis of Strain Influence on Dielectric Constant of (Ba,Sr)TiO3 Films with Different Orientations”.

Awarded: Yosuke TAKAGI

Yosuke TAKAGI won the Excellent Poster Award (Second Prize) of the 9th Asian Meeting on Ferroelectricity and the 9th Asian Meeting on Electroceramics (AMF-AMEC-2014) held in Shanghai, China for his poster “Ab-initio Study on Face Azimuth Dependency of Surface Energy and Structure in Ferroelectric PbTiO3”.

Visit & lecture: Prof. Barbara Malic

On July 4, Prof. Barbara Malic (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia) visited us and lectured on lead-free piezoelectrics.

LecturerLecture title
Prof. Barbara Malic
(Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Lead-free piezoelectric materials based on sodium potassium niobate

Awarded: Takaaki SHIBATA

Takaaki SHIBATA won the Excellent Poster Award of The 25th Fall Meeting of The Ceramic Society of Japan held in Nagoya, Japan for his poster “Structural Control of Bi4Ti3O12 Nanoplates by Pulsed Laser Deposition“.

Special research student: Mr. Wylie-van Eerd

Mr. Benjamin Wylie-van Eerd (Prof. Joe Trodahl group, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) joined us as a special research student for the project ‘Strain-induced ferroelectric phase transition in strontium titanate films’ (June 1 – June 30).