The series of International Symposia on Ferroic Domains and Micro- to Nanoscopic Structures (ISFD s) is devoted to phenomena originating to basic and applied aspects of structural changes in condensed matter connected with breaking of crystal symmetry. The scope of ISFD s covers in particular:
- static and dynamical properties of domain structures and twinning in ferroelectric, ferroelastic and multiferroic solids and in mesoscopic phases,
- characterization of natural or artificial ferroic, modulated, relaxor or hierarchical domain-like structures by direct space imaging and diffraction techniques,
- applications based on domain phenomena.
ISFD-10 is going to have a satellite workshop on Piezoresponse Force Microscopy (PFM) with tutorials, exhibition and practical classes.
This PFM workshop continues in the tradition of the Piezoresponse Force Microscopy Workshops held recently in Oak Ridge (USA), Lausanne (Switzerland), Aveiro (Portugal) and Tsukuba (Japan). The websites of the previous and forthcoming PFM meetings can be consulted at
- http://pfm4.web.ua.pt/index.htm
- http://www.nims.go.jp/omc/pfm5.html
- http://www.ustb.edu.cn/materials/files/pfm/International_Workshop.html
The 9
th PFM Workshop will be held side by side to ISFD-10 in Prague, September 22 24, 2010.(100-200 euro)
