Electroceramics XV 2016 June 27-29, Limoges, France

Electroceramics XV 2016 June 27-29, Limoges, France

1. Summer School organized by the JECS Trust of the European Ceramic Society The week just before the Electroceramics meeting, the European Ceramic Society organized, under the auspices of the JECS Trust, a summer school devoted to "Process, microstructure and properties of electroceramics: issues and recent advances" The organizers: - Cathy Elissalde (ICMCB Bordeaux, France), - Sophie Guillemet-Fritsch (CIRIMAT Toulouse, France), - Jean-Christophe Orlianges (SPCTS Limoges, France), - Anne Leriche (E-Cers, GFC..., France), - Francis Cambier (E-Cers and JECS Trust, Belgian Ceramic Research Center, Mons, Belgium), - Veronique Huart (E-Cers and JECS Trust, Belgian Ceramic Research Center, Mons, Belgium). The speakers: - M. Alguero, ICMM Madrid, Spain, - H. Beltran-Mir, Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry - University Jaume I, Spain, - V. Buscaglia, Institute of Condensed Matter Physics and Energy Technologies (CNR-ICMATE), Italy, - T. Chartier, SPCTS Limoges, France, - D. Damjanovic, Institute of Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne-EPFL, Switzerland, - J.B. Fruhauf, R&D Manager, Société des Céramiques Techniques, Bazet, France, - P. Groen, TU Delft, the Netherlands, - M.J. Hoffman, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, - F. Mauvy, ICMCB Bordeaux, France, - J.C. Nino, University of Florida Materials Science and Engineering Department, USA, - C. Randall, Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, - P. Vilarinho, Department of Materials and Ceramic Engineering, CICECO, Aveiro, Portugal, - T. West, University of Sheffield,Dept of Material Science & Engineering, UK. This event was organized from Thursday June 23 to Saturday June 25 at "Le Poudrier", a very nice place close to Limoges. Fifty students were expected to participate and fifty-two were finally registered.

2. The Electroceramics XV meeting The meeting was organized from Monday 2016 June 27 to Wednesday 2016 june 27 in Limoges. The place of the congress was the "Centre Européen de la Céramique", located in Ester park, Avenue Atlantis. The organizers The meeting was organized under the auspices of the French Ceramic Society "Groupe Français de la Céramique". I want to warmly thank the GFC and particularly Anne Leriche, which was President of the French Ceramic Society at the beginning of this project, for her precious help and councils all along the organization of this meeting. We were also supported by two scientific societies: - The European Ceramic Society which endorsed this meeting and, by the JECS trust, whic also organized a summer school on electroceramics just before the meeting with 50 participants and 13 lecturers. Thus this event was already a success. - The American Ceramic Society also endorsed this meeting and awarded funding applicants for members travels and especially students (meeting and summer school). At the local level, the organizer was the Science of Processing and Surface Treatments" laboratory (SPCTS UMR 7315 CNRS University of Limoges). Our lab have locally developed a joint laboratory, the Σ-LIM LabEx, with and XLIM (UMR 7252 CNRS University of Limoges), the research institute on design, modeling and fabrication of electronic, high-frequency, optic and photonic devices and systems. Thus the local committee was enlarged to two members of the XLIM institute. At national level, the committee includes two French members of the International Committee and two people representing the French Ceramic Society "Groupe Français de la Céramique". I want to warmly thank all my colleagues from the Organizing Committee. Without their help, the organization of this event would not have been possible. As said by the proverb: "you go faster by yourself, but you go further with others". This is particularly thru for the organization of an international meeting Local Organizing Committee: - P. Marchet (SPCTS, Limoges), Chairman - C. Champeaux (SPCTS, Limoges) - F. Dumas-Bouchiat (SPCTS, Limoges) - P.M. Geffroy (SPCTS, Limoges) - L. Huitema (XLim, Limoges) - J.C. Orlianges (SPCTS, Limoges) - O. Tantot (XLim, Limoges) - J. Jouin (SPCTS, Limoges) National Organizing Committee: - C. Courtois (LMCPA Maubeuge, GFC) - B. Dkhil (SPMS, Chatenay-Malabry, International Committee) - C. Elissalde (ICMCB Bordeaux, International Committee) - S. Guillemet-Fritsch (Cirimat Toulouse, GFC)

The Local supports We also benefited from the help of the local institutions: - Of course the University of Limoges which furnished us an important assistance in term of logistical assistance. I also want to thanks warmly: - The "Pole Européen de la Céramique" which helped us to organize the visits of our local companies. - The Limoges National School of Engineering ENSIL and the National School of Industrial Ceramics ENSCI for their financial and logistical assistance. At the local and regional level, we were also highly supported by: - The municipality of Limoges, which organized the welcome cocktail and will welcome all the participants at the town hall on Monday june 27. - The urban community of Limoges, "Limoges Metropole" which supported us by graciously making available the Ester building and it's support team, - The region Aquitaine Limousin Poitou Charente which supported us financially for the accommodation and subsistence of conference delegates.

The Meeting During the selection of abstracts, our main objective was to highlight the work of young scientist by our choice of presentations. We also retained 25 keynotes lectures. Some of them were chosen as invited lectures before submission of abstracts and the other ones were selected because of the quality of their abstract. The result was 131 oral presentations, including 3 plenary lectures and 25 keynotes lectures, 60 posters. Plenary lectures

The sessions 25 sessions were organized during the meeting on the following subjects: Dielectrics: D1: structure-dielectric properties relationships D2: Defects and interfaces phenomena Photovoltaics and domain walls Ionics I1: SOFC I2: PCFC, thermomechanical properties I3: Ionic/electronic properties, structure / microstructure relations I4: Defects and properties I5: Membranes Multiferroics MF1: Perovskites and solid solutions MF2: improper ferroelectricity and diluted magnetism MF3 artificial multiferroics Thermoelectrics TH1: oxides & sulfides TH2: Calorics Ferroelectrics-Piezoelectrics FP1: Electromechanically driven properties FP2: polarization switching and energy storage FP3: lead free piezoelectrics FP4: Piezoelectric composites FP5: Thin films characterization FP6: Strain probing and monitoring FP7 lead free ferroelectrics FP8: ferroelectric nanostructures and size effects FP9: new applications and tunability FP10: design of microstructures in ferroelectrics Process: PR1: new processes for the design of advanced materials PR2: SPS processing PR3: Processing functional materials

Some statistics 204 people were present, coming from 29 different countries all over the world (fig.1 and fig. 2): Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Luxemburg, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA Fig.1: Map of the geographic origin of the attendees of Electroceramics XV meeting 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 74 France Spain USA Japan Romania Norway Germany UK Czech republic Portugal Slovenia Brazil Russian federation Switzerland India Israel Mexico Poland Serbia Austria Belgium Canada China Luxemburg Italy Lithuania Puerto Rico South Korea Netherlands Fig.2: Statistical repartition of the attendees by countries

140 123 120 100 80 69 60 40 20 0 Students Academia Industry 12 Fig.3: Attendees type 120 112 104 100 80 60 40 25 78 60 accepted presented 20 3 12 0 Fig.4: accepted and presented abstracts

5 8 12 Photovoltaics and domain walls Dielectrics 52 Thermoelectrics 14 Multiferroics 14 Process 23 Ionics Fig.5: Oral presentations (without plenaries)