TUTORIALS
8:00-9:30

 

Breakfast & Tutorials
9:30-11:00T01Andrew Bell
Title: Fundamental of Piezoelectrics
11:00-11:30 Tea Break
11:30-13:00T02Andrei Kholkine
Title: Piezoforce Microscopy for Ferroelectrics
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:30T03Bhagwati Prasad
Title:  Ferroelectric and mutliferroic devices: device physics (Device 1)
15:30-15:45 Tea Break
15:45-16:45T04Veeresh Deshpande
Title: Ferroelectric devices and technology integration
 DAY 1
7:30-8:30Breakfast & Registration
8:30-9:00Opening Remarks & Inauguration
Main Hall
 

Plenary Session 1 (Main Hall)

Chair: Dragan Damnjanovic, President UFFC-s officers

9:00-9:40P1: Andrew Bell
Inside Piezoelectricity: why we need both hard and soft interatomic bonds to maximise energy conversion 
9:40-9:45Mini Break
9:45-10:35Parallel Sessions 1 & 2 (Main Hall | Hall A)
10:35-11:00Tea Break
11:00-13:00Parallel Sessions 3 & 4 (Main Hall | Hall A)
12:55-14:10Lunch Break
 

Plenary Session 2 (Main Hall)

Chair: Florencio Sanchez, ICMAB, Spain

14:10-14:50P2-Uwe Schroeder
Ferroelectric Doped HfO2-based Devices: Recent progress and future challenges
14:50-14:55Mini Break
14:55-15:45Parallel Sessions 5 & 6 (Main Hall | Hall A)
15:45-16:05Tea Break
16:05-18:00Parallel Sessions 7 & 8 (Main Hall | Hall A)
18:00-19:30Poster Session 1 (Tea)
19:30 onwardsDinner
 DAY 2
7:30-9:30Breakfast & Registration
 

Plenary Session 3 (Main Hall)

Chair: Saswata Bhattacharya, IIT Hyderabad

9:00-9:40P3: Umesh Waghmere
Polar Half-Metal and Triferroic Insulator based on PbMnO3: First-principles Theory
9:40-9:45Mini Break
9:45-10:35Parallel Sessions 9 & 10 (Main Hall | Hall A)
10:35-11:00Tea Break
11:00-13:00Parallel Sessions 11 & 12 (Main Hall | Hall A)
12:50-14:00Lunch Break
 

Plenary Session 4 (Main Hall)

Chair: Vasant Sathe, UGC-DAE-CSR Indore

14:00-14:40P4-Andrei Leonidovitch Kholkine,
Magnetoelectric nanostructures: synthesis, properties and applications
14:40-14:45Mini Break
14:45-15:35Parallel Sessions 13 & 14 (Main Hall | Hall A)
15:35-16:00Tea Break
16:00-18:10Parallel Sessions 15 & 16 (Main Hall | Hall A)
18:10-19:30Poster Session 2 (Tea)
19:30 onwardsConference Dinner
 DAY 3
7:30-9:00Breakfast & Registration
 

Plenary Session 5 (Main Hall)

Chair: Bharat Jalan, Univ of Minnesota

9:00-9:40P5: Lane Martin
Advances in Ferroelectric-, Antiferroelectric-, and Relaxor-based Thin Films and Heterostructures
9:40-9:45Mini Break
9:45-10:35Parallel Sessions 17 & 18 (Main Hall | Hall A)
10:35-11:00Tea Break
11:00-13:00Parallel Sessions 19 & 20 (Main Hall | Hall A)
12:55-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:35Parallel Sessions 21 & 22 (Main Hall | Hall A)
15:35-16:00Tea Break
16:00-17:15Session 23 (Main Hall)
17:30-18:15Valedictory (Main Hall)

MAIN HALL

Session 1: Thin Films and Propertiies

Chair: Ranjit Ramadurai, IIT Hyderabad

9:45-10:10I1: P. Murgavel, 
IIT Madras		Ferroelectric photovoltaic and flexo-photovoltaic effect in bandgap-engineered ferroelectric system
10:10-10:35I3: Vasant Sathe, 
UGC-DAE		Optical control of ferroelectric domain structure in BaTiO3
10:35-11:00Tea Break

Session 3: Membranes and 2D Ferroelectrics

Chair: P. Murugavel, IIT Madras

11:00-11:25I5: Ying Hao Chu, 
NTHU, Taiwan		MICAtronics for flexible ferroelectric memory, piezoelectric actuator, and pyroelectric sensing
11:25-11:45Y1: Varun Harbola, 
MPI, Stuttgart		Heterostructure and interface design beyond epitaxy
11:45-12:00O1: Shubham Parathe,
IISc Bengaluru		Operando characterization of temperature assisted ferroelectric to paraelectric phase transitions in In2Se3
12:00-12:15O3: Soumyaranjan Sahoo,
IIT Madras		Freestanding Ferroelectric Oxide Membranes Designed by Epitaxy for Device Applications 
12:15-12:40I7: Daisuke Kan, 
Osaka University, Japan		Ultrathin Freestanding Membranes of Ferroelectric Hafnia
12:40-12:55O5: Harshita Seksaria, INST MohaliOrigin of strain tunability in flat valence band and ultrahigh shear piezoelectricity in superflexible non-van der Waals graphitic ScX monolayers (X = P, As, Sb)
12:55-14:00Lunch Break

Session 5: Ferroelectric Films and Device Performance

Chair: Ying Hao Chu, NTHU

14:55-15:20I9: James Raju, 
University of Hyderabad		Ferroelectric thin films for microwave devices: material, measurement, processes and devices
15:20-15:45I11: Jayakant Ravichandran, 
University of Southern California		Limits to Reliability of Ferroelectric Capacitors
15:45-16:05Tea Break

Session 7:  Heterostructures and Characterization

Chair: Jayakant Ravichandran, USC

16:05-16:30I13: Srimanta Middey,
IISc Bengaluru		Emergent phases in incipient ferroelectrics upon dilute electron doping
16:30-16:50Y3: Somnath Kale,
CEA Saclay, France		Ferroelectric Size Effects on Statics and Dynamics of Domain Wall 
16:50-17:05O7: Naveen Negi,
IISc Bengaluru		Investigation of Electrical and Multifunctional Properties in
High-Entropy BFO–BTO–STO Perovskites
17:05-17:20O9: Yeswant Pattipati, 
IISc Bengaluru		Epitaxial in-plane ferroelectric BaTiO3 integrated onto Si through a single MgO buffer layer for electrooptic applications
17:20-17:45I15: Anju Ahlawat,
SAGE University		Light modulated Magnetization in Ferromagnetic/PMN- PT Heterostructures
17:45-18:00O11: Dipankar Sarkar,
IACS, Kolkata		Antiferroelectric to Ferroelectric Phase Transition and Electrocaloric Effect in Epitaxial PbZrO₃ Thin Films

HALL A

Session 2: Bulk Ferroelectrics

Chair: Kaustuv Datta, HZB

9:45-10:10I2: V Raghavendra Reddy, 
UGCDAE 		Hyperfine interactions in Pb free BaTiO3 based relaxors
10:10-10:35I4: Boomishankar Ramamoorthy, 
IISER Pune		Ferroelectric Materials Based on Hybrid Metal-Isothiocyantes
10:35-11:00Tea Break

Session 4: Bulk Ferroelectrics

Chair: Saket Asthana, IIT Hyderabad

11:00-11:25I6: Kaustuv Datta,
Helmholtz Zentrum, Berlin 		Decoding structure-property connections in perovskite ferroelectric oxides via total scattering method
11:25-11:45Y2: Digvijay Singh,
IISc Bengaluru		From Delusion to Reality: The Isosymmetric Transition in BiFeO₃-PbTiO₃ and Its Complex Phase Diagram
11:45-12:00O2: Saujatya Mandal, 
IISc Bengaluru		Micromechanical Insights into Texture and Stress-Driven
Electromechanical Behavior in Ferroelectric PZT
12:00-12:15O4: Gudeta Jafo,
IISc Bengaluru		Simultaneous increase of d33 and Cuire point of PZT: the
phenomenon and mechanism
12:15-12:40I8: Saurabh Tripathi,
IIT BHU		Impact of Local Structural Ordering on the Thermal Expansion of Relaxor Ferroelectrics
12:40-12:55O6: Pooja Punetha,
IISc Bengaluru		Short range structural correlations and property anomalies in nonMPB compositions of the Pb-free piezoelectric Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-K0.5Bi0.5TiO3
12:55-14:00Lunch Break

Session 6: Bulk Ferroelectrics

Chair: Dillip Kumar Pradhan, NIT Rourkela

14:55-15:20I10: Saket Asthana, IIT HyderabadAdvancing Ecofriendly Ferroelectrics for Next-Generation Energy Storage and flexible electronics
15:20-15:45I12: Akhilesh Kumar Singh, IIT BHUCrystallographic Analysis of Phase Coexistence in Piezoelectric MPB Ceramics by Rietveld Structure Refinement 
15:45-16:05Tea Break

Session 8:  Bulk Ferroelectrics

Chair: VRK Murthy, VIT A.P.

16:05-16:30I14: Debraj Choudary, IIT KgpTowards realization of metastable ferroelectric phase in
orthorhombic rare-earth chromates
16:30-16:50Y4: Gobinda Das AdhikaryLarge longitudinal electrostrain and electrobending deformation in polycrystalline piezoelectrics
16:50-17:05O8: Abhinav Kumar, IIT HyderabadAnalysis of the comparative scaling behaviour between slanted and square-type polarisation loops in Nb⁵⁺/Ho³⁺ co substituted NBT systems for enhanced energy storage performance 
17:05-17:20O10: Ananda Babu, SSN UniversityStructural, relaxor behaviour, dielectric and energy storage
properties of lead-free (1−x)Ba0.95La0.05TiO3‒xBi(Zn2/3Ta1/3)O3 ferroelectrics
17:20-17:45I16: Dillip Pradhan, NIT RourkelaStructural phase transitions and enhancement of physical
properties in Li and Ta modified K0.5Na0.5NbO3 system
17:45-18:00O12: SK Upadhyay, HNB Garhwal UniversityRe-entrant-like behavior in modified BaTiO3 with pinched hysteresisloop 

MAIN HALL

Session 9: Epitaxial Thin Films and Local Polarziation Measurements

Chair: Srimanta Middey, IISc Bengaluru

9:45-10:10I17: Jieun Kim,
KAIST, South Korea		Understanding Polarization Rotation in Relaxor Ferroelectrics Using Epitaxial Thin Films 
10:10-10:35I19: César Magén,
INMA, CSIC, Zaragosa, Spain		Probing polar distortions in ferroic oxide films with atomic resolution electron microscopy
10:35-11:00Tea Break

Session 11: Unconventional Ferroelectrics: Hafnia

Chair: Jordan Bouaziz, EC Lyon

11:00-11:25I21: Pavan Pujar, 
IIT BHU		Solution-Processed Doped-Hafnia Ferroelectrics on Silicon:
A Pathway to Commercial Integration
11:25-11:45Y5: Jalaja M, 
IISc, Bengaluru		Proximity induced phase transitions in solution processed La
doped Hafnia
11:45-12:00O13: Anjana Thomas, 
Ecole Centrale Lyon		Enhancing Polarization and Reliability in HZO-Based FTJs
Using WOx Electrodes and Interfacial Layers 
12:00-12:25I23: Florencio Sanchez, 
ICMAB, Spain		Strategies for maximizing polarization in ferroelectric HfO2
12:25-12:40O14: Soumyajyoti Mondal,
IISc Bengaluru		Tailoring Ferroelectric HfO₂ Thin Films: A Comprehensive Study of Deposition Parameters, Thermal Treatment, and Electrode Effects
12:40-14:00Lunch Break

Session 13: Epitaxial Films and Characterization

Chair: César Magén, INMA, CSIC, Zaragosa, Spain

14:45-15:10I25: Ranjith Ramadurai,
IIT Hyderabad		Polarization Orientation Mapping in Polycrystalline and Epitaxially Grown BCZT Thin Films using Piezoresponse Force Microscope
15:10-15:35I27: John Heron, University of Michigan, USAMaterial-Limited Switching in Nanoscale Ferroelectrics
15:35-16:00Tea Break

Session 15:  Epitaxial Thin Films and Emergent Order

Chair: John Heron, Univ. Michigan

16:00-16:25I29: Bharat Jalan, University of MinnesotaEmerging Polar Altermagnetic Metallic States in Epitaxially Strained RuO2 Films
16:25-16:50I31: Ram Janay Choudary,
UGC-DAE		Room Temperature Giant Inverse Magnetoelectric Effect in Topotactic Phase Transition Material SrCoO2.5
16:50-17:05O15: Mohit Tanwani,
IISc, Bengaluru		Tuneable skyrmion liquid phase in polar skyrmionse 
17:05-17:20O16: Kusumpal Yadav,
IACS Kolkata		Ferroelectricity induced giant topological Hall effect in epitaxial multiferroic thin film heterostructure
17:20-17:45I33: Sayantika Bhowal,
IIT Bombay		Emergent Surface Multiferroicity
17:45-18:10I42: Saswata Bhattacharya, 
IIT Hyderabad		From Constraints to Complexity: Thermodynamic Pathways to Domain Formation in Ferroelectrics3 thin films

HALL A

Session 10: Solution Processed Ferroelectric Devices

Chair: Pavan Pujar, IIT BHU

9:45-10:10I18: Subho Das Gupta,
IISc Bengaluru		Fully Printed Negative-Capacitance Field-Effect Transistors with Ultralow Subthreshold Swing and High Inverter Signal Gain
10:10-10:35I20: Bholanath Pal,
IIT BHU		Ferroelectric thin film for memory and neuromorphic device application
10:35-11:00Tea Break

Session 12: Piezoelectric devices and MEMS

Chair: James Raju, Univ. of Hyderabad

11:00-11:25I22: Gayathri Pillai,
IISc Bengaluru		Exploring Temperature and Bias-Dependent Switchability and Tuneability of BST based LKu Band MEMS Resonators
11:25-11:45Y6: Shiuan Wu,
NTHU, Taiwan		Gelatin Exfoliation Process: Enhance The Potential of Ferroelectric Component in Electronic Skin Applications
11:45-12:05Y7: Sandeep Kongbrailatpam,
IISc Bengaluru		Observation of Akhiezer and Landua-Rumer Regimes in the Temperature Dependence of Longitudinal Wave in BST on Sapphire BAW Resonator
12:05-12:30I24: Siddhartha Ghosh,
Northeastern University		Design and Fabrication of Phononic Integrated Circuits in Scandium Aluminum Nitride
12:30-12:50Y8: Praveen Kumar,
IISc Bengaluru		Generation of Phononic Frequency Combs via Nonlinear Mode Coupling in Curved Circular Piezoelectric MEMS Resonators
12:50-14:00Lunch Break

Session 14: Ferroelectric Thin Films and Topology

Chair: Ram Janay Chaudary, UGC-DAE

14:45-15:10I26: Sudhansu Mandal,
IIT Kgp		Polar Skyrmions in Planes of Strained Ferroelectric Systems
15:10-15:35I28: Sujit Das,
IISc Bengaluru		Harnessing the polar vortex motion and tunable skyrmion liquid phase in oxide heterostructures
15:35-16:00Tea Break

Session 16:  Ferroelectric/piezoelectric Thin Films: Performance and Applications

Chair: Gayathri Pillai, IISc Bengaluru

16:00-16:25I30: Soma Dutta,
NAL Bengaluru		Real time Applications of Piezoelectric and Ferroelectric Materials: A perspective of Material Response to Device Qualification
16:25-16:45Y9: Antony Jeyaseelan,
IISc Bengaluru		Different textured PZT films grown on Si/Pt substrate
16:45-17:10I32: Dipankar Mandal,
INST Mohali		Initiatives in Piezoelectric Voiceprint for Biometric Healthcare Assessment
17:10-17:25O17: Khadeer Pasha,
VIT, A.P.		Flexible and Wearable Polyvinyl Alcohol/Chitosan/Ti₃C₂Tₓ MXene-Based Piezoelectric Hydrogels
17:25-17:50I34: Abhijit Sangl,
IIT Bombay		Growth of Lead-free Heteroepitaxial Thin Films of (Na0.8K0.2)0.5Bi0.5TiO3 Ferroelectrics by Nd:YAG Laser Pulsed Laser Deposition
17:50-18:10Y10: Subhajit Pal,
Queens Mary, London		Photoinduced properties in ferroelectric oxides

MAIN HALL

Session 17: Ferroelectric/Piezoelectric Investigation: New Measurement Approaches

Chair: Bhagwati Prasad, IISc Bengaluru

9:45-10:10I35: Saurabh Chandorkar,
IISc Bengaluru		Superharmonic resonant response measurement: a new method to measure spontaneous polarization
10:10-10:35I37: Pavan Nukala,
IISc Bengaluru		Visualizing solid-state amorphization in 2D ferroelectrics
10:35-11:00Tea Break

Session 19: Multiferroics, Sensing and Novel Experimental Approaches

Chair: Saurabh Chandorkar, IISc Bengaluru

11:00-11:20Y11: Binoy De,
UGC-DAE/IISc Bengaluru		A new approach to measure ferroelectric ionic displacement using polarized Raman spectroscopy
11:20-11:45I40: Tuhin Maity,
IISER Trivendrum		Crossing the limits by interface engineering in nano-scale multiferroics
11:45-12:05I41: Maheswaran Shanmugam,
IIT Bombay		Unlocking Single-Phase Magneto-Electric Materials Through Discrete Molecular Architectures
12:05-12:30I43: Arockia Rajan,
IIT Madras		Magnetoelectric Performance of Epoxy-Modulated Ni/PZT/FeGa Composites for Pressure and Displacement Sensing Applications
12:30-12:50Y13: Ajay Kumar,
IISc Bengaluru/INST Mohali		Nanoconfinement driven mechanical and thermal properties of ferroelectric molecular complex
12:55-14:00Lunch Break

Session 21: Ferroelectric Devices and Applications

Chair: Jieun Kim, KAIST, South Korea

14:00-14:25I45: Shankar Selvaraja,
IISc Bengaluru		Highly Oriented PZT Platform for Polarization-Independent Photonic Integrated Circuit and Enhanced Efficiency Electro-Optic Modulation
14:25-14:40O19: Md Hanif Ali,
IIT Bomba		Way to achieve Highly Improved State-of-the-Art Ferroelectric Properties in Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 at Low Processing Temperature
14:40-15:05I46: Jordan Bouaziz,
Ecole Centrale Lyon		State-of-the-Art Research on Hf-ZrO₂ Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric capacitors
15:05-15:30I47: Veeresh Deshpande,
IIT Bombay		CMOS back-end-of-line compatible Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 ferroelectric devices
15:30-16:00Tea Break

Session 23:  Devices for Memory and Neuromorphic Applications

Chair: Veeresh Deshpande, IIT Bombay

16:00-16:20Y15: Anouk Goussens,
CNRS Thales		Towards room-temperature ferroelectric-spin-orbit (FESO) devices based on perovskite ferroelectrics
16:20-16:45I48: Bhaswar Chakraborty,
IIT Madras		Reliability of doped hafnium oxide FeFETs: challenges and mitigation strategies
16:45-17:10I49: Arvind Ajoy,
IIT Palakkad		Harnessing the Double-Well potential of Ferroelectrics for Enhanced Sensing and Electromechanical Actuation
17:10-17:35IT2: Rohini Kitture,
Wiley		Mastering Research Publishing: Insights from Editor’s Desk

HALL A

Session 18: Multifunctional Ferrroelectrics

Chair: Akhilesh Kumar, IIT BHU

9:45-10:10I36: Devajyoti Mukherjee,
IACS Kolkata		Exploiting giant electrocaloric effects in epitaxial thin films of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric perovskite oxides
10:10-10:35I38: Anirban Chowdhury,
IIT Patna		Giant Electrostriction in La2Ce2O7 Ceramic: Is Texture Always Helpful for Functional Properties?
10:35-11:00Tea Break

Session 20: Theoretical Tools for Ferroic Materials

Chair: Sudhansu Sekhar Mandal, IIT Kgp

11:00-11:25I39: Ravi Kashikar,
IITRAM, Gujarat		Tunable spin polarization in ferroelectric hybrid organic inorganic perovskites
11:25-11:45Y12: Urmimala Dey,
LIST		Insights into Multifunctional Properties of Ferroelectrics from Atomistic Simulation
11:45-12:00O18: Riya Pathak, IISER TvmCurie-Weiss cross-over and quantum spin liquid behavior in multiferroic TbInO3 thin films
12:00-12:25I44: Sobhit Singh,
Rochester, USA		Phase Transitions and Elastic Anomalies in Ferroelectric Hafnia Under Pressure
12:25-12:45Y14: Subhadeep Bandyopadhyay,
CNR Spin, Italy		Latent electronic (anti-) ferroelectricity in BiNiO3
12:55-14:00Lunch Break

Session 22: Energy Harvesting and Piezoelectric Devices

Chair: Dipankar Mandal, INST Mohali

14:00-14:25IT1: Abhay Kochar,
Optorun		Piezoelectric Resonators: Powering the Next Wave of RF Communication
14:25-14:40O20: Sruti Muralikrishnan,
IIT Hyderabad		Microstructure and piezoresponse force microscopy studies on neodymium titanate thin film - a high temperature ferroelectric
14:40-14:55O21: Nilotpal Deka,
IISER Pune		A Highly Electrostrictive A2BX4-type Hybrid 2D Perovskite Ferroelectric and The Utility of its Composite Piezoelectric Nanogenerator in Wireless Mat-Sensor Technology
14:55-15:10O22: Parvathy Ravindranath,
INST Mohali		Two-Phase Energy Harvesting via Magneto-Pyroelectric Coupling
15:10-15:25O23: Rajashi Halder,
IIT Bombay		Energizing Tomorrow: Biocompatible Ferroelectric Cu(II) Complexes for Sustainable Energy Harvesting