Piezoelectric Micro and Nano Structures and their Applications

Convenors :

• Dr. Christopher OSHMAN, LE STUDIUM RESEARCH FELLOW
• Dr. Guylaine POULIN-VITTRANT, CNRS Researcher at GREMAN

Confirmed Speakers:

• Dr. Davide BALMA, Ceramics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Suisse
• Dr. Philippe BOY, Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) Le Ripault, Tours, France
• Pr./Dr. Victor M. BRIGHT, Dep. of Mechanical Eng., University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
• Dr. Valentina CAUDA, Center for Space Human Robotic, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Torino, Italy
• Pr./ Dr. Corinne DEJOUS, Laboratoire de l'Intégration, du Matériau au Système (IMS), Bordeaux, France
• Pr./ Dr. Robert DOREY, Dep. of Mechanical Eng. Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
• Dr. Laurent A. FRANCIS, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM), Laboratory SMALL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
• Pr./Dr. Barbara MALIC, Electronic Ceramics Department, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Dr. Laurent MONTES,Institute of Microelectronics Electromagnetism and Photonics (IMEP-LAHC) / Minatec, Grenoble, France
• Guillaume FERIN, VERMON SA, Tours, France
• Dr. Pooi See LEE, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Charles OPOKU, Groupement de Recherche en Matériaux, Microélectronique, Acoustique et Nanotechnologies (GREMAN), Tours, France
• Pr./Dr. S. Ravi P. SILVA, Nano-Electronics Centre, Advanced Technology Institute (ATI), University of Surrey, Guildford, England
• Dr. Jesús ZUNIGA-PEREZ, Centre de Recherche sur l'Hétéro-Epitaxie et ses applications (CRHEA), Valbonne, France

Topics:

• piezoelectric MEMS and NEMS
• devices (sensors, actuators, energy harvesters and ultrasonic transducers)
• piezo-semiconductor nanomaterials
• modeling, synthesis and characterization