Graz, August 13-18, 2025

Between August 13 and 18, 2025, over 500 leading scientists and engineers from the fields of ferroelectric, piezoelectric, and electroceramic materials, participated at the 2025 IEEE ISAF-ICE-ISIF-PFM conference in Graz.

September 24-26 in Grasellenbach

The FLAIR Retreat 2025 will be held from Wednesday, Sept 24, to Friday, Sept 26, 2025, at Ringhotel Siegfriedbrunnen in Grasellenbach. The program will start on Wednesday at 10 am. Presentations are scheduled until Thursday evening. Friday morning is reserved for an in-person exchange-seminar for the Juniors, while PIs will use Friday for a strategy meeting.

October 3-10, 2025, La Clusaz

The third Junior-FLAIR Summer School will be held from October 3-10, 2025, in the beautiful alpine village of La Clusaz at Chalet Giersch, France

At the E-MRS Spring Meeting 2025 in Strasbourg

FLAIRistas Present Latest Advances of the CRC

A large number of FLAIR members participated in the E-MRS Spring Meeting 2025, which took place in Strasbourg, France from May 26 to May 30. The team, together with Mercator Fellows Elizabeth Dickey (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) and Emre Erdem (Sabanci University, Istanbul), presented and thoroughly discussed their latest achievements with a broad international community of materials scientists focused on electroceramics. Most contributions were part of Symposium N: “Advanced Doping Strategies, Defect States, and Electronic Structure of Functional Oxides”, which was supported by FLAIR and organized by Anke Weidenkaff, Jurij Koruza, and Marc Widenmeyer. Additionally, FLAIR-related research was featured in other symposia, covering topics such as next-generation solar technologies, ferroic materials and heterostructures, solid-state ionics, anion-controlled inorganic materials and mixed-anion systems, as well as computational materials science.

New Publication

This tutorial-article explores two ways of looking at defects in solids. One perspective, called defect chemistry, treats them with chemical reaction rules: concentrations of defects change depending on the chemical environment, and everything must balance in terms of charge and atoms. The other perspective, defect physics, uses thermodynamics and quantum mechanics to calculate how much energy is needed to form a defect. This energy depends on both the position of the Fermi level and the chemical environment.

Mehr Licht in das Design von Keramiken bringen – industry event in German language

An der TU Darmstadt trafen sich Materialwissenschaftler:innen und Industrievertreter:innen, um über einen neuen Ansatz zur Erforschung der Eigenschaften von Elektrokeramiken zu diskutieren. Ein besseres Verständnis der Materialien auf atomarer Ebene soll bessere Werkstoffe für Sensoren, Batterien oder Brennstoffzellen bringen.