Electronic Ceramics and Devices

Co-lead organizers: Geoff Brennecka (gbrennec@mines.edu, Colorado School of Mines, U.S.) and Alp Sehirlioglu (axs461@case.edu,Case Western, U.S.)

Abstract: The continued expansion of ubiquitous computing combined with ever-increasing need for reduced energy and resource consumption enhances the importance of electronic ceramic materials, components, and devices. Better materials and processes are needed to address challenges in low-power and edge computing, sensing, and monitoring across a broad range of operating environments, harvesting and storage of energy and information, accelerating demand in artificial intelligence use, lifetime extension and circularity, and many other topics. Despite the enormous breadth of application spaces where advances in ceramic materials and processes are needed, the fundamentals remain similar: researchers must address fabrication, processing, and integration challenges; engineer defects for benefit rather than detriment; and balance performance with cost, reliability, manufacturability, and sustainability concerns. This symposium aims to unite the wide world of electronic ceramics and devices for cross-cutting discussions around similarities of solutions to disparate challenges. Thus, the focus of this symposium and the proposed sessions are mainly motivated by the challenges being addressed rather than the chemistry of the ceramics being developed or the specific targeted application(s).

Proposed sessions:

• Computationally guided discovery, development, and/or manufacturing
• Advances in thin film growth, integration, and devices for power electronics, sensing, IoT, and communications
• Cofiring and multimaterial integration
• Engineering defect chemistry for processing and/or properties
• Ceramics for power-efficient computation, including quantum and/or neuromorphic architectures
• Operation in extreme environments

Co-organizers:

Andrew Rappe, University of Pennsylvania, U.S., rappe@sas.upenn.edu

Barbara Malic, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, barbara.malic@ijs.si

Hajime Nagata, Tokyo University of Science, Japan, h-nagata@rs.tus.ac.jp

Claire Xiong, Boise State University, U.S., clairexiong@boisestate.edu

Yoshiki Iwazaki, Taiyo Yuden, Japan, y-iwazaki@jty.yuden.co.jp

Agne Zakauskaite, Fraunhofer FEP, Germany, agne.zukauskaite@fep.fraunhofer.de