FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES -  FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES - DEVICE APPLICATIONS

Scope of the school - held on Wednesday, November 8th, 2023 - was to merge together students and young researchers with interest in the field of freestanding oxide thin films and micro/nanomechanical systems made with functional (epi)oxide materials towards new applications in sensing and actuating technologies.  

Attendance to this event was free-of-charge

When? Wednesday, November 8th, 2023  (all day)
Where? Online on Gather Town (Updated link - REGISTERED ONLY)
Companies and SMEs with activities and business in the oxides and M/NEMS field may participate free-of-charge to the exhibition corner programmed during the poster session upon request to the organizers at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 Program (The times indicated refer to the UTC+1 zone, Central European Time)

9:00 Online connections and openings - Luca Pellegrino (CNR-SPIN, IT), Daniele Marré (Genoa Univ., IT)

 FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES

9:30 A review of recent advances and future opportunities in freestanding oxide films - Nini Pryds (Technical University of Denmark, DK)

10:10 Fabrication of oxide M/NEMS devices - Nicola Manca (CNR-SPIN, IT)

10:50 -11:00 break

FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES AND CHARACTERIZATION

11:00 First-principles theory and modeling of flexoelectricity in perovskite-based systems -  Massimiliano Stengel (ICMAB-CSIC and ICREA,  ES)

11:40 Characterization of free-standing ferroelectric superlattices - Pavlo Zubko (University College London, UK)

12:20 - 13:40 Lunch break

DEVICE APPLICATIONS

13:40 Oxide PiezoMEMS actuators - Guus Rijnders (University of Twente, NL)

14:20 Suspended oxide-based resistive bolometers on silicon - Laurence Méchin (GREYC - CNRS, Caen, FR)

15:00 – 15:10 coffee break

15:10 Measuring the mechanical properties of oxide membranes and NEMS  - Warner Venstra (Quantified Air B.V., NL)

15:50 VO2-based M/NEMS actuators - Luca Pellegrino (CNR-SPIN, IT)

16:30 – 18:00 CLOSING REMARKS AND  POSTER SESSION