Workshop Session Within the 8th International Meeting on Ferroelectrics; Washington, D.C.; August 8-13, 1993

将于1993年夏季在NIST与第8届国际铁电会议同时举行一次关于铁电体中铁电体中磁区的会议，以讨论当前的研究主题，例如磁区壁系统及其相互作用，磁区壁构型和既是铁电又是铁弹性的磁区壁的热力学和动力学。有许多材料，如弛豫材料和器件，如集成铁电薄膜存储器，其中这些方面是至关重要的。由于这些主题通常不在研究生课程中教授，会议组织正在特别努力地有更多的学生参与。已作出安排，将会议会议扩大为晚间讲习班会议，以便就关键主题领域进行深入讨论。预计该领域的顶尖科学家将出席，大会和讲习班会议将提供一个有效的论坛，讨论和描述关键的科学问题，并审议和确定解决这些问题所需的方法和技术。对铁电材料中电畴状态的评估，以及与会者对今后工作重点的建议，以及他们对最重要的当代研究问题的评估，将对理解和发展铁电材料及相关材料具有重要价值。并用于它们在诸如微电子等领域的后续使用。

A Conference session on Domains in Ferroelectrics will be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Ferroelectrics during the Summer, 1993 at NIST to address current research topics such as systems of domain walls and their interactions with each other, the thermodynamics and kinetics of domain wall configurations and domain walls that are both fer- roelectric as well as ferroelastic. There are many materials, such as relaxors, and devices, such as integrated ferroelectric thin film memories, in which these aspects are of central importance. Since these topics are usually not taught as such in graduate programs the conference organization is making a special effort to have a large student participation. Arrangements were made to expand the Conference session into an evening Workshop session to allow for in-depth discussions on critical subject areas. It is expected that top scientists in the field will attend, and that the Conference and Workshop sessions will provide an effective forum to discuss and delineate critical scientific issues, and to consider and define the approaches and techniques needed to address them. %%% An evaluation of the status of domains in ferroelectrics, and recommendations by the session participants for the emphasis of future work, and their assessment of the most important contem- porary research issues will be of great value to the understanding and development of ferroelectric and related materials, and for their subsequent utilization in fields such as microelectronics.