InSAM School Topics
The InSAM School focuses on fundamental principles and emerging topics in advanced materials across related scientific fields. It is designed to provide participants, particularly students and early-career researchers, with a strong theoretical foundation as well as insights into recent advances in the field. The topics covered by the school evolve in line with current scientific trends and may be adapted by the local organizing committee to reflect emerging research directions and priorities.
ISyDMA Conference Topics
The ISyDMA Conference covers a broad and interdisciplinary range of topics in both fundamental and applied sciences, addressing key challenges in energy, environment, biotechnology, electronics, and advanced materials.
As a leading international scientific forum, ISyDMA provides a high-level platform for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present and discuss recent advances, emerging trends, and future challenges in dielectrics, nanodielectrics, and their technological applications.
The main thematic areas of the ISyDMA conference include, but are not limited to, the following:
Dielectric Materials for Electronics and Photonics
- Dielectric, piezoelectric, pyroelectric, ferroelectric, and multiferroic materials
- Ceramics, thin films, polymers, glasses, composites, and nanostructures
- Impedance spectroscopy and electrochemical/dielectric phenomena
- Dielectric properties, polarization mechanisms, and applications
- Surface and interfacial phenomena
- Space charge physics in insulating materials
- Advanced characterization techniques
- Modeling and theoretical approaches
- Applications of multiferroics
Applications of Insulating Materials
- High-voltage insulation design using computer-based analysis
- Partial discharges: detection methods and ageing effects
- Monitoring and diagnostic techniques for insulation systems
- Insulation in high-voltage equipment and power cables
- Ageing processes and lifetime assessment
- Electrical conduction and breakdown in dielectric liquids
- Gaseous breakdown and discharge phenomena
Dielectric Devices for Biotechnological and Industrial Applications
- Biodielectrics for environmental and bioengineering applications
- Biomedical engineering
- Tunable microwave devices
- Energy storage systems: supercapacitors, capacitors, electrolyzers, batteries
- Energy generation (e.g., solid oxide fuel cells)
- Nanodielectrics for industrial applications
- Dielectrics for superconducting systems
- Measurement and characterization techniques
- Electrocaloric materials, thermoelectrics, photovoltaics
Emerging Materials and Devices
- Metamaterials
- Nanocomposite dielectric polymers
- Advanced and functional dielectric materials
- Novel diagnostic techniques
- Topological insulators
- Composite materials
- Related dielectric phenomena and innovative approaches