Multiferroics, Magnetoelectrics, Spin-Electric Coupling, and Ferroelectrics I

Presentations

• Tuning Single-Spin Magnetic Anisotropy in Ferroelectric Oxides: The Role of Strain and Defect Complexes

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Haseeb Ahmad

    • University of California, Merced

  Authors

  • Haseeb Ahmad

    • University of California, Merced

  • Bradford Barker

  • Sinéad Griffin

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Elizabeth Nowadnick

    • University of California, Merced

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• Effect of Vanadium Doping on Ferroelectric Hafnia

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Adedamola Aladese

    • University of Memphis

  Authors

  • Adedamola Aladese

    • University of Memphis

  • Xiao Shen

    • University of Memphis

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• Computationally-driven discovery of a new weberite-type La₃NbO₇ antiferroelectric material

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:24 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Louis Alaerts

    • Dartmouth College

  Authors

  • Louis Alaerts

    • Dartmouth College

  • Jesse Schimpf

  • Xinyan Li

    • Rice University

  • Jiongzhi Zheng

    • Dartmouth College

  • Ella Banyas

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Jeffrey Neaton

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Sinéad Griffin

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Yimo Han

    • Rice University

  • Geoffroy Hautier

    • Dartmouth College

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• Quantification of oxygen vacancies in ferroelectric hafnia

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Publication: Correct quantification of oxygen vacancies in ferroelectric hafnia J. Appl. Phys. 138, 134106 (2025); doi: 10.1063/5.0288354

  Presenters

  • Nicholas Barrett

    • CEA Saclay

  Authors

  • Nicholas Barrett

    • CEA Saclay

  • Tom Iung

  • Vineeta Yadav

  • Christophe Lubin

  • Uwe Schroeder

  • Florian Wunderwald

  • Alfred Kersch

    • University of Applied Sciences

  • Luis Azevedo Antunes

  • Tyson Back

    • Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

  • Conan Weiland

  • Mickael Gros-Jean

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• Atomistic Switching Mechanism of Ferroelectric Wurtzites

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Publication: 1. Behrendt, D.; Nascimento, V. B.; Rappe, A. M. Multidomain simulations of aluminum nitride with machine-learned force fields. Physical Review B 2024, 110, 035204.
  2. Behrendt, D.; Samanta, A.; Rappe, A. M. Ferroelectric Fractals: Switching Mechanism of Wurtzite AlN. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.18816 2024,

  Presenters

  • Drew Behrendt

    • University Of Pennsylvania

  Authors

  • Drew Behrendt

    • University Of Pennsylvania

  • Atanu Samanta

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Andrew Rappe

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Harnessing Noise for Sub-Coercive Polarization Switching in Ferroelectric PZT capcaitors

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Publication: V.Dey, et.al., Synchronous polarization switching at sub-coercive fields through stochastic resonance in ferroelectric thin-film capacitors, arXiv:2508.12017(https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.12017)

  Presenters

  • Vivek Dey

    • Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru

  Authors

  • Vivek Dey

    • Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru

  • Thejas Basavarajappa

  • Arvind Ajoy

  • Pavan Nukala

  • Manikantan R S

  • Kevin R Jacob

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• Probing sliding ferroelectricity and local conductivity variation in rhombohedral MoS2

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Shaopeng Feng

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Shaopeng Feng

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Shangyi Guo

  • Jia Yu

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Jiaxuan Wen

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • J. I. A. Li

  • Keji Lai

    • University of Texas at Austin

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• Ultraviolet Raman spectroscopy characterization of epitaxial (Ba,Sr)TiO₃ films grown under adsorption-controlled conditions

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Cosmin Fologea

  Authors

  • Cosmin Fologea

  • Asher Hansen

  • Tristan Pinkerton

  • Brian Zuber

  • Dylan Sotir

    • Cornell University

  • Darrell Schlom

    • Cornell University

  • Varun Harbola

    • Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

  • Jochen Mannhart

    • Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

  • Dmitri Tenne

    • Boise State University

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• First-Principles Study of Piezoelectric, Elastic, and Pressure-Dependent Properties of the R₂​Ti₂​O₇​ Carpy–Galy Phase Materials

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Imran Hasan

    • University of California, Merced

  Authors

  • Imran Hasan

    • University of California, Merced

  • Elizabeth Nowadnick

    • University of California, Merced

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• Understanding the electronic behavior of MXene (Ti₃C₂) and Fe based SCO heterostructure

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Gauthami Viswan

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  Authors

  • Gauthami Viswan

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  • Jared Phillips

    • Scientific Instruments, Inc. (SI)

  • Saeed Yazdani

    • Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

  • Ruihua Cheng

    • Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

  • Peter Dowben

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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• Computational Modeling of Polarization Coupling in Lead-Free Ferroelectric Bilayers BaTiO₃/BiFeO₃ and Hf₀.₅Zr₀.₅O₂/BiFeO₃

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Yashan Hettiarachchi

    • The University of Tulsa

  Authors

  • Yashan Hettiarachchi

    • The University of Tulsa

  • Alexei Grigoriev

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• Directional and circular dichroism of ferro-rotational phonons in MnTiO₃

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Hsiao-Yu Huang

    • Natl Synchrotron Rad Res Ctr

  Authors

  • Hsiao-Yu Huang

    • Natl Synchrotron Rad Res Ctr

  • Ganesha Channagowdra

    • National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center

  • Debshikha Banerjee

    • University of Tennessee

  • Jun Okamoto

    • Natl Synchrotron Rad Res Ctr

  • Mael Guennou

  • Steven Johnston

    • University of Tennessee

  • Chien-Te Chen

  • Atsushi Fujimori

    • Univ of Tokyo

  • Sang-Wook Cheong

    • Rutgers University

  • Di-Jing Huang

    • Natl Synchrotron Rad Res Ctr

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• Ferroelectric switching and multiferroic behavior of wurtzite transition-metal chalcogenides

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Kai Huang

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  Authors

  • Kai Huang

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  • Himanshu Mavani

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  • Mohamed Elekhtiar

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  • Naafis Ahnaf Shahed

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  • Evgeny Tsymbal

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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• Strain-tuning of magnetic order and short-range structural correlations in EuTiO₃

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Publication:
  

  Presenters

  • Dayu Zhai

    • University of Minnesota

  Authors

  • Dayu Zhai

    • University of Minnesota

  • Xing He

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Chiou Yang Tan

    • University of Minnesota

  • Issam Khayr

    • University of Minnesota

  • Suchismita Sarker

    • CHESS

  • Damjan Pelc

    • University of Zagreb

  • Martin Greven

    • University of Minnesota

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