03/2026: FM Poster prizes at the DPG Spring meeting

Poster prizes 2026: Andrea Tobiassen (represented by Jiali He, "Ferroelectricity in spin-liquid candidate TbInO₃"), Raufar Shameem (Helmholtz-Zentrum, Dresden-Rossendorf, "Smart DNA lithography as a tool for nanoelectronics"), Benyao Sun (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, "Strain-driven phonon instabilities in BaSnO₃"),  Ciara Ward (Queen’s University Belfast, "Correlated Imaging of Thermal Conductivity and Ferroelectric Domains in PbTiO₃ Using Scanning Probe Microscopy"), photo: L. Eng

03/2026: Industry visit at Infineon Technologies

A highlight of this years DPG was the visit to Infineon Technologies AG in Dresden. The program included a company presentation, technical insights (e.g., MEMS microphones and power electronics), a virtual cleanroom tour, and a networking session.

03/2026: FM Networking event at DPG Spring meeting in Dresden

The FM networking event in the framework of the SKM meeting in Dresden 2026 brought together more than 100 participants to exchange ideas and build new connections within the functional materials community. We gratefully acknowledge the support of our sponsor Park Systems and our local organizer Prof. Dr. L. Eng.

03/2025: (K)FM poster prize awarding at 2025 Sping meeting in Regensburg

f.l.t.r.: Juliane Koch (TU Illmenau, "Optimizing pre-annealing growth for obtaining pattern fidelity of highly ordered GaAs nanowires"), Christa Fink (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, "Investigation of hydrogen diffusion in LiNbO₃ and LiTaO₃ from density-functional theory"), Maximilian Suhr (TU München, "Surface and near-surface positron annihilation spectroscopy at very low positron energy")

03/2024: (K)FM poster prizes at DPG spring meeting in Berlin

f.l.t.r.: Felix Meessen (RWTH Aachen University, für "Exploring the bonding in quasicrystals"), Ida Skogvoll (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, für "DFT study of local ferroic properties at twin walls in ferroelastic CaMnO3") und Sergei Trofimov (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, für "KPFM imaging and magnetic resonance detection of single nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond"), photo: D. Meier