Welcome from the Chairs

On behalf of the organizing committee, it is my great pleasure to invite you to the XI International Conference PIEZO2021 and the related Winter School, organized by University of Sassari and Piezo Institute. This conference will be held in ONLINE from February 21 to February 24, 2021. The previous editions of the conference can be visualized here.

Due to the health conditions related to the coronavirus and to guarantee the safety and well-being of all conference attendees, the conference will be held ONLINE. The aim is to make this event an international forum for discussion, knowledge exchange and fruitful interactions among participants in this exponentially growing field.

We look forward to meeting you all online!

Dr. Sebastiano Garroni, Dr. Carmen Galassi and Dr. Guy Feuillard  

PIEZO2021 Chairs 

Stakeholders from academia and industry as well as from governments and research institutes are welcome to join this event and share their findings on various topics related to materials, such as:

• Piezoelectrics, ferroelectrics, relaxors, tunable materials
• Lead-free ferroelectrics and piezoelectrics
• New processing techniques: bulk, thick and thin films, LTCC, integration, lithography-free deposition methods, flexible substrates, multilayers, etc.
• Advanced and innovative structural, piezoelectric and mechanical characterization
• Materials and devices for high frequency ultrasonic medical imaging and other biomedical applications
• Energy harvesting concepts and devices, energy storage using antiferroelectrics
• Actuators (for ink jet printers, fuel injection etc.)
• Photo-ferroelectrics
• Raw materials avoiding environmentally aggressive conditions
• Green manufacture of ceramics, chemical routes avoiding toxic precursors, such as colloidal sol-gel, freeze drying, chemical routes, etc.
• Additive manufacturing of oxide advanced ceramics
• Electrocalorics, photovoltaics, and thermoelectrics
• Theory and modeling