2022 U.S.-JAPAN SEMINAR ON
DIELECTRIC AND PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS
Monday, November 14
A - 1 Invited

A: Basic Science & Characterization of Structure and Properties

8:00 am - 10:15 am

Session Chairs: Hiroki Taniguchi and Elizabeth Dickey
8:00 – 8:15

Introductory Remarks

A.I.1

8:15 – 8:45

Polar Antiphase Boundaries in PbZr1−xTixO3 - H. Yokota, K. Kurihara, Z. An, N. Zhang,
M. Pasciak, M. Glazer

Hiroko Yokota

A.I.2

8:45 – 9:15

Properties of Novel Ferroelectric van der Waals Crystals Revealed by Multi-modal
Characterization Approaches - N. Balke

Nina Balke

A.I.3

9:15 – 9:45

Microstructural Analysis of the Degraded Areas and Reliability of Multi-Layer Ceramic
Capacitors - M. Nagayoshi, R. Sakata

A.I.4

9:45 – 10:15

First-principles Modeling of Wurtzite Ferroelectrics - C.G. Van de Walle

10:15 – 10:30

A - 2:

Dr. Susan Trolier–McKinstry, Dr. Yasushi Enokido

Maiko Nagayoshi

Chris G. Van de Walle

Break

Poster Summaries & Poster Viewing - 10:30 am - 12:30 pm

A.P.1

DFT Study on BiFeO3–BaTiO3 Superlattices - Y. Noguchi

Yuji Noguchi

A.P.2

Mask or Enhance: Data Curation for the Discovery of Piezoresponse Force Microscopy Contributors - G.K.
Ligonde, K.N. Williams, N. Bassiri-Gharb

A.P.3

Theoretical analysis of BaTiO3 and Metal Electrode Interface - Y. Iwazaki, R. Suemasa, M. Araki, Y. Sakai

Yoshiki Iwazaki

A.P.4

In-situ Observation of 90º-domain Switching for Piezoelectric Pb(Zr, Ti)O3 Microcantilevers - Y. Ehara, H.
Morioka, T. Kobayashi, S. Yasui, K. Nishida, H. Funakubo

Yoshitaka Ehara

A.P.5

In Situ Monitoring of Cold-Sintering Mechanisms Using a Custom Stage Designed for Small and Wide Angle XRay Scattering - R.A. Maier, A. Allen, F. Zhang, I. Levin

Russell A. Maier

A.P.6

Characterization of Point Defects in Mn- and (Mn, Nb)-doped Perovskite Titanates - I. Levin, R.A. Maier, K.F.
Garrity, V. Provenzano, B. Ravel

A.P.7

Advancing Solid State Reaction Science Through in situ X-ray Diffraction and Processing Control - J.L. Jones, J.
Corrado Harper, L. Bellcase, R. Broughton, J.S. Forrester

Jacob L. Jones

A.P.9

Information Recovery in Low Signal-to-noise Piezoresponse Force Microscopy Data - K.N. Williams, H.S. Yuchi,
G.K. Ligonde, M.W. Repasky, Y. Xie, N. Bassiri-Gharb

Kerisha N. Williams

Gardy Kevin Ligonde

Igor Levin

A.P.10 Analysis of Crystals by pm-order Evaluation Technique Using STEM - S. Otsuki, S. Calderon, S.D. Funni, E.C.
DickeyShiro Otsuki

A.P.11 Oxygen Vacancy Injection as a Pathway to Enhancing Electromechanical Response in Ferroelectrics - K.P.
Kelley, A.N. Morozovska, E.A. Eliseev, V. Sharma, D.E. Yilmaz, A.C.T. van Duin, P. Ganesh, A. Borisevich, S. Jesse, P.
Maksymovych, N. Balke, S.V. Kalinin, R.K. Vasudevan

Kyle P. Kelley

A.P.12 Ultra-Resolution Volumetric Properties of Piezoelectrics and Dielectrics via Tomographic AFM - B.D Huey,
K. Del Cid Ledezma, L. Ortiz, J. Kaszas, , R. Ramesh, D. Meier, T. Hosokur, K. Suzuki, Y. Zhu

Bryan D. Huey

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A.P.13 Direct Observation of Ferroelectricity in Two-Dimensional MoS2 - A. Gruverman

Alexei Gruverman

A.P.14 CRUX: Crowdsourced Materials Data Engine for Unpublished XRD Results - A. Sehirlioglu

Alp Sehirlioglu

A.P.15 Assessment of Flaws in Cold Sintered Electroceramics via Ultrasonic Wave Speed and Attenuation
Measurements - H.N. Jones, A.P. Argülles, S. Trolier-McKinstry

Haley N. Jones

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2022 U.S.-JAPAN SEMINAR ON
DIELECTRIC AND PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS
Monday, November 14
B - 1 Invited

B: MLCC High-Power Electric and High-Frequency Dielectrics

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Session Chairs: Clive Randall and Hiroko Yokota
B.I.1

2:00 – 2:30

Challenge to Develop DC-bias & Temperature Dependence-free Dielectric Materials with Dielectric
Constants Ranging from 500 to 10,000 - S. Wada, P. Sapkota, T. Miyazawa, G.P. Khanal, I. Fujii,
S. UenoSatoshi Wada

B.I.2

2:30 – 3:00

X7R Dielectric for EV Applications - A. Ellmore

Angela Ellmore

B.I.3

3:00 – 3:30

Development of Low-Loss Dielectric Materials in Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors for Automotive
Applications - S. Suzuki, T. Tateishi, K. Banno, T. Nakamura, H. Sano

Shoichiro Suzuki

B.I.4

3:30 – 4:00

Electrical and Thermal Characterization of Class I Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors (MLCCs) in High
Alternating Currents - J. Bultitude, L. Jones, I.D. Kinnon, N.A. Reed, J.H. Hayes, A. Templeton

John Bultitude

4:00 – 4:30

B - 2:Break

Poster Summaries & Poster Viewing - 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

B.P.1

Nano-grained (Bi1/2K1/2)TiO3–SrTiO3 Ceramics for Capacitor Applications - M. Kitamura, S. Fujihara, M. Hagiwara

Maho Kitamura

B.P.2

Increasing Capacitor Lifetime with AC Electric Field Cycling - L.M. Garten, J.A. Bock, E.A. Patterson, I. Graham,
M.A. Blea, H.J. Brown-Shaklee

Lauren M. Garten

B.P.3

Dielectric Stimulated Arc Breakdown Across a Spark Gap for Surge Protection - P. Yang, J.K. Grey, D. Vreeland,
J.D. Sorenson

B.P.4

Voltage Tunable Capacitor for Tunable Power Electronics - C.W. Nies, A.P. Ritter, J. Hock, R. Vanalstine, S.M. Fuller

B.P.5

Moisture Incorporation and Effects on Electrical Conductivity in Dielectrics - E.C. Dickey, J.F. McGarrahan

B.P.6

Solvothermal Synthesis of Perovskite Alkaline-Niobates Nanocubes from Tailored Precursors for HighPerformance Composite Dielectrics - S. Ueno, Y. Yamada, P. Sapkota, H. Nam, I. Fujii, S. Wada

Shintaro Ueno

B.P.7

Microstructural Analysis of Novel Dielectric Composites Using Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation C.S. Wheatley, J. Mena-Garcia, C.A. Randall, A.P. Argüelles

Christopher S. Wheatley

B.P.8

Polymer Coated Ceramic Powders for Electronics Applications - C.A. Grabowski, D. Bajaj

Christopher Grabowski

B.P.9

Silver Niobate Capacitors: Cold Sintered Ceramics and Thin Films - A. Safari, J.D. Leber, J. Zhang

Ahmad Safari

B.P.10 Developing a Standard Reference Material for mmWave Dielectrics - L.L. Enright, G.L. Brennecka, N.D. Orloff

Lucas L. Enright

Pin Yang
Craig W. Nies
Elizabeth C. Dickey

B.P.12 NRL Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics via Microwave Sintering - E.P. Gorzkowski, E.A. Patterson, A.P. Iliopoulos,
B. Graber, J.G. Michopoulos

Edward P. Gorzkowski

B.P.13 The role of oxygen vacancies on DC lifetime and TSDC in Bi(Zn,Ti)O3-BaTiO3 (BZT-BT) - S. Bishop, M. Blea-Kirby,
A. Peretti, W. Bachman, J. Bock

Sean Bishop

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2022 U.S.-JAPAN SEMINAR ON
DIELECTRIC AND PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS
Tuesday November 15
C - 1 Invited

C: New Materials, Synthesis and Properties for Energy and Environmental Issues

8:00 am - 10:00 am

Session Chairs: Takuya Hoshina and Geoff Brennecka
C.I.1

8:00 – 8:30

Silicate and Aluminate-based Ferroelectrics and Antiferroelectrics - H. Taniguchi

Hiroki Taniguchi

C.I.2

8:30 – 9:00

From High-Entropy Ceramics (HECs) to Compositionally Complex Ceramics (CCCs) - J. Luo

C.I.3

9:00 – 9:30

Melilite-type Silicate Single Crystals for High Temperature Piezoelectric Application - H. Takeda

Hiroaki Takeda

C.I.4

9:30 – 10:00

Multiferroic and Strain Responses in Dilutely Doped BaTiO3 - M. Staruch, S. Mills, E.A. Patterson,
P. Finkel

Margo Staruch

Jian Luo

10:00 – 10:30
Break

C - 2:

Poster Summaries and Poster Viewing - 10:30 am - 12:30 pm

C.P.1

Fabrication of La-doped Bismuth Silicate Bi2SiO5 Ceramics - Y. Yasumoto, H. Taniguchi, S. Fujihara, M. Hagiwara

C.P.2

Designing Novel Dielectric Composites with High Thermal Conductivity - J. Mena-Garcia, A. Ndayishimiye, Z. Fan, B.
Foley, C.A. Randall

C.P.3

Barium Nickelate for Piezoelectric Catalysis - I. Graham, L.M. Garten

C.P.4

Understanding Piezoelectric and Auxetic Response of Cellulose Nanocrystals - F. Rubaiya, M.L. Shofner,
L.M. Garten

Fariha Rubaiya

C.P.5

Unique Polarization Switching System in Kappa-Al2O3-type Multiferroics - S. Yasui, T. Katayama, Y. Hamasaki,
M. Itoh

Shintaro Yasui

C.P.6

New Materials for Three Dimensional Ferroelectric Microelectronics - S. Trolier-McKinstry, W. Zhu, J. Hayden, K.
Ferri, L. Jacques, F. He, J.I. Yang, J.P. Maria, T.N. Jackson

Susan Trolier-McKinstry

C.P.7

Cold Sintering of Potassium Sodium Niobate, K0.5Na0.5NbO3 - K. Nakagawa, M. Iwasaki,
C.A. Randall

Koki Nakagawa

C.P.8

The Effect of BaTiO3 Surface Modification on Cold Sintering - T. Okazaki, Y. Fujioka, C.A. Randall

Toshiki Okazaki

C.P.9

Novel Electroceramic Composites Under the Processing of Cold Sintering - C.A. Randall

Clive A. Randall

C.P.10 Cold Sintering Process of BaTiO3 Composites with Fine PTFE Powder - T. Nunokawa, C.A. Randall

Takashi Nunokawa

C.P.11 Hybrid Organic-inorganic Perovskites: Piezoelectricity, Ferroelectricity and Rashba Effects - I. Ponomareva,
P.S. Ghosh, S. Lisenkov, R. Kashikar

Inna Ponomareva

C.P.12 Stabilizing Polar Polymorphs of Scandium Ferrite for Photovoltaics - M.B. Frye, A. Mock, L.M. Garten

Marshall B. Frye

C.P.13 Fast Charge Transfer via Dielectric Interface in Rechargeable Batteries - T. Teranishi, R. Yamanaka, T. Higuchi,
K. Hamada, S. Kondo, A. Kishimoto

Takashi Teranishi

C.P.14 Effect of Dopant Concentration and Processing Methods on the Ferroelectric Behavior of Doped BaTiO3 Ceramics- S.C. Mills, E.A. Patterson, M. Staruch

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Yoji Yasumoto
Javier Mena-Garcia
Ian Graham

Sarah C. Mills

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C.P.15 Ionic Exchange of Aurivillius Phases for Protonation - A. Sehirlioglu, B. Hirt

Ben Hirt

C.P.16 Electrocaloric Effect of Perovskite High Entropy Oxide Films - Y. Son, S. Trolier-McKinstry

Yeongwoo Son

C.P.17 Aerosol Deposition and Characterization of Complex Oxide Systems - E.A. Patterson, S.C. Mills, H. Ryou,
J.A. Wollmershauser, E.P. Gorzkowski

Eric A. Patterson

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DIELECTRIC AND PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS
Tuesday, November 15
D - 1 Invited

D: Piezoelectric Materials and Their Applications

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Session Chairs: Eric Patterson and Hiroshi Funakubo
D.I.1

2:00 – 2:30

Domain Structure and Complex Nonlinear Elastic Constants of Lead-Free and Lead Based
Piezoelectric Ceramics for Ultrasonic Applications - H. Shimizu

D.I.2

2:30 – 3:00

Thin Ferroelectric Films & piezoMEMS: A Perspective - J. Evans, Jr.

Joe Evans, Jr.

D.I.3

3:00 – 3:30

Development of (Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3-based Lead-free Piezoelectric Ceramics by Quenching Treatment
for Ultrasonic Applications - H. Nagata, Y. Takagi

Hajime Nagata

D.I.4

3:30 – 4:00

Ultrasonic Time-of-Flight Sensors Based on Piezoelectric MEMS Ultrasonic Transducers D.A. Horsley, R.J. Przybyla, S.E. Shelton, B.E. Eovino

David Horsley

4:00 – 4:30

D - 2:

Hiroyuki Shimizu

Break

Poster Summaries and Poster Viewing - 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

D.P.1

Ferroelectric Properties of AgxK1-xNbSi2O7 Single Crystals - T. Hoshina, Y. Suga, S. Yasuhara, T. Tsurumi

Takuya Hoshina

D.P.2

Performance and Stability of High TRT Relaxor PIN-PMN-PT Single Crystals - A.A. Heitmann, I.M. Doyle,
R. Pérez Moyet, N. Noda, K. Echizenya

Adam A. Heitmann

D.P.3

Giant Optical and Piezoelectric Effects Induced by Domain Reconfiguration Related to Ferroelectric Phase
Transitions - P. Finkel, M. Staruch, T. Mion, M.G. Cain, J. Daniels

D.P.4

Time-dependence and its Origin for Extraordinarily Large Piezoelectric Response in Polarization-inclined Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 Nanorods - Y. Yamada, K. Okamoto, M. Yoshino, T. Nagasaki, Y. Imai, O. Sakata

D.P.5

Ferrielectricity in the Archetypal Antiferroelectric, PbZrO3 - N. Bassiri-Gharb, Y. Yao,
Z. Beller, A. Naden, S. Lisenkov, I. Ponomareva, A. Kumar

D.P.6

Electromechanical Properties of K(Ta,Nb)O3 Crystal - H. Maiwa

D.P.7

Design of Actuators Based on Ferroelectric-Relaxor Crossover - D. Cann, S. Gupta, P. Mardilovich, B. Gibbons

D.P.8

Relaxing in Weird Places - A.M. Rappe, D. Behrendt, J. Zhang, Y. Qi, R. Wexler

Andrew M. Rappe

D.P.9

Ti Doping and Low-temperature Sintering of BiFeO3 Nanoparticles - M. Hagiwara, Y. Shinjo, M. Mori. S. Fujihara

Manabu Hagiwara

D.P.10 Bulk ScAlN Plate Ultrasonic Transducer in the 10 MHz Range - S. Kuninobu, N. Ishi, T. Yanagitani

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Peter Finkel
Tomoaki Yamada
Nazanin Bassi-Gharb
Hiroshi Maiwa
David Cann

Sota Kuninobu

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Wednesday, November 16
E - 1 Invited

E: Material Science, Integration and Application of Thin Films

8:00 am - 10:05 am

Session Chairs: Tomoaki Yamada and Lauren Garten
8:00 – 8:05

Bruce Tuttle Remembrance - given by Geoff Brennecka

E.I.1

8:05 – 8:35

Effect of Li and Nb Co-doping on AlN Piezoelectric Films Prepared by RF Magnetron Sputtering T. Terada, J. Kimura, Y. Inoue

Tomohiro Terada

E.I.2

8:35 – 9:05

Ferroelectrics Everywhere - J.P. Maria, J. Hayden, D. Goodling, R. Zu, S. Baksa, R. Taheri, N. Alem,
I. Dabo, V. Gopalan. S. Trolier-McKinstry

Jon-Paul Maria

E.I.3

9:05 – 9:35

GHz Frequency Switchable BAW Filter Applications of Ferroelectric ScAlN and MgZnO Thin
Films - T. Yanagitani

Takahiko Yanagitani

E.I.4

9:35 – 10:05

Material Synthesis and Device Structures for High Frequency Aluminum Scandium Nitride
Electromechanical Resonators - R.H. Olsson, R. Beaucejour, Z. Tang, X. Du

Troy Olsson

10:05 –10:30

E - 2:Break

Poster Summaries and Poster Viewing - 10:30 am - 12:30 pm

E.P.1

Ferroelectricity of 20-nm Thick (Al0.8Sc0.2)N Thin Films with TiN Electrodes - R. Ota, S. Yasuoka, R. Mizutani,
T. Shiraishi, K. Kakushima, H. Funakubo

Reika Ota

E.P.2

Wake-up in Al1-xBxN Ferroelectric Films - W. Zhu, F. He, J. Hayden, J.I. Yang, J.P. Maria, S. Trolier-McKinstry

Wanlin Zhu

E.P.3

Ferroelectric Al0.7Sc0.3N for High Operating Temperature Non-volatile Memory - D.E. Drury, K. Yazawa,
A. Zakutayev, E.A. Andarawis, D.M. Shaddock, B.M. Hanrahan, G.L. Brennecka

Daniel E. Drury

E.P.4

Anomalous Switching Kinetics in Ferroelectric Wurtzite Thin Films - K. Yazawa, J. Hayden, J.P. Maria,
S. Trolier-McKinstry, A. Zakutayev, G.L. Brennecka

Keisuke Yazawa

E.P.5

Ferroelectric Zn2/3Mg1/3O Films - L. Jacques, G. Ruy, S. Shetty, J.P. Maria, S. Trolier-McKinstry

Leonard Jacques

E.P.6

Defining Properties via Material Microstructure: Defect and Strain Engineering Approaches for Developing
Ferroelectric AlScN - J.A. Wellington-Johnson, L.M. Garten

E.P.7

Stability of Piezoelectric Thin Film Tin Selenide - J.R. Chin, S. Marini, L.M. Garten

E.P.8

Quantification of Stress During Field Cycling of Hafnium Zirconium Oxide Thin Films - S.T. Jaszewski,
S.S. Fields, J.F. Ihlefeld

E.P.9

A Landau Approach to the Thermodynamics of Ferroelectric Al1-xScxN - G.L. Brennecka, K. Yazawa, A. Zakutayev

E.P.10Quantifying the Electrode Clamping Effect in Ferroelectric Hafnium Zirconium Oxide Thin Films - J.F. Ihlefeld,
S.S. Fields, T. Cai, S.T. Jaszewski, M.D. Henry, B. Sheldon

E.P.11

Ferroelectricity of Polar-axis Oriented Epitaxial (Bi, K)TiO3 Thin Films Grown by Hydrothermal Method H. Funakubo, R. Kubota, Y. Ito, A. Tateyama

Hiroshi Funakubo

E.P.12

Defect Chemistry, Charge Transport, Electrical Degradation, and Lifetime In KNN Films - B. Akkopru-Akgun,
S. Trolier-McKinstry

Betul Akkopru-Akgun

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John A. Wellington-Johnson
Jonathan R. Chin
Samantha T. Jaszewski
Geoff Brennecka
Jon Ihlefeld

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E.P.13Annealing Eeffects in BaTiO3/Ca(Mn,Nb)O3/SrTiO3 Epitaxial Thin Films - S. Yasuhara, T. Hoshina, T. Tsurumi

Sou Yasuhara

E.P.14

Effects of Over-Stoichiometric Lead Compensation on Antiferroelectric Performance and Structure of PbZrO3
Thin Films - Z. J. Beller, M.H. Haddad, N. Bassiri-Gharb

Zachary Beller

E.P.15

Electro-optic Effect in Single- and Multi-domain Pb(Zr, Ti)O3 Thin Films - S. Kondo, T. Teranshi, A. Kishimoto,
T. Nagasaki, T. Yamada

Shinya Kondo

E.P.16

Lead-Loss Compensation for Processing of Phase-Pure Perovskite PbZrO3 Thin Films on Si Substrates M.H. Haddad, Z.J. Beller, N. Bassiri-Gharb

Milan H. Haddad

E.P.17

Mechanical Q Factor Extraction of Sputter-grown Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O3 Epitaxial Thin Films Without Removing
Substrate - Y. Shimizu, T. Yanagitani

Yuki Shimizu

E.P.18

Domain Wall Motion and its Contribution to PZT-based MEMS Actuators - F. He, M. Hejazi, S. Lee, A. Ong,
S. Trolier-McKinstry

E.P.19Fingerprint Imaging Using GHz PbTiO3 Epitaxial Thin Films Ultrasonic Transducer - K. Nakamura, Y. Koike, Y.
Sato, T. Yanagitani

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Fan HeKae Nakamura