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Organizers:
David Ginley (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Hideo Hosono (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Kristen Persson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), John D. Perkins (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Klaus Ellmer (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin), Ryan O’Hayre (Colorado School of Mines).
This symposium will focus on the prediction and realization of new functional oxides. There has been an increasingly emphasis on the computational design and subsequent experimental achievement of new oxides with specific functionality. Specifically some of the key areas for which papers are sought are:
- New transparent conducting materials with enhanced band edge alignment, stability, process conditions, and device integration that are based on oxides/sulfides and nitrides as well as new composite materials using graphene, carbon, silver or copper nanowires in a functional matix consisting of a functional oxide or other matrix materials that enhances the nanomaterial functionality;
- New piezoelectric materials for direct energy conversion. Recently new materails have begun to emerge that have the potential to replace the PB containing PZT. They include new oxide based materials and materials with cation or anion ordering;
- New thermoelectric materials – new oxide or composites oxide based TE materials have recently demonstrated interesting ZTs and enhanced stability. Oxide/organic composites have the potential to be transformative in low temperature regimes;
- Oxide based direct energy conversion materials including both solar absorbers for photovoltaics as well as new absorber and reflector coatings for a solar convertors;
- Oxide based transistors for high power and low power applications including displays and power electronics;
- Oxides based charge selective contacts;
- New multi-functional oxides for optical coatings – specifically for example controlling refreactive index simultaneously with dust and soiling.
Along with the development of new functional oxides is the development of new approaches to their processing including:
- Atmospheric based processing including roll to roll and direct write processing;
- New high throughput approaches to CVD, ALD and high deposition rate PVD approaches;
- New characterization approaches especially as process metrics and operando based characterization;
- New computational approaches to complex oxides, their interfaces and predicting nucleation and growth.
Overall they symposium will try to bring together the increasingly active community in developing new functional oxide materials using advance computational, growth and characterization techniques to rapidly explore and realize a next generation of functional oxides.
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Composite Materials;
- New Piezoelectric Materials;
- New approaches to Transparent Conductors;
- Computational Design of Metastable Materials;
- Narrow gap ternary oxides;
- Basic understanding of the electronic transport in amorphous and crystalline oxides.
In this Symposium are also welcome those contributions which cover the topics beyond the above-described areas. This is done to provide the audience with a comprehensive description of Solid State Ionics. If your contribution is difficult to host within the above areas, please do not hesitate to contact directly the Conference Chairmen at ssi21@dii.unipd.it for advice.
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