8. Advanced Materials Characterization and Modeling

Scope
The development of improved or new materials relies in the ability to describe and understand the relationship between the structure and composition, its processing parameters and its properties. In the last decades, important experimental and theoretical tools have been developed in order to fulfill this aim. By building up such a fundamental scientific understanding, using highly detailed characterization, multiscale modeling and experimental validation, applied research and market introduction of new materials and devices with new or improved capabilities can be accelerated.
This section is expected to bring together researchers with experience in modelling tools (ab-initio quantum mechanical simulations, crystalline structure and band energy calculations, micromagnetic modelling, modelling of transport phenomena at different length scales, etc.) and in advanced techniques of materials characterization (structural, optical, electric, magnetic properties, etc), with the goal of achieving a mutual understanding among researchers using different computational approaches and different experimental strategies, in the field of the advanced materials and structures, for the improvement of experimental design and implementation.

Topics

Section Organizers
Daniel Vizman, West University of Timisoara, Romania,
Corneliu Ghica, National Institute of Materials Physics, Romania,
Marius Volmer, “Transilvania” University of Brasov, Romania.